Episode #25 - Barry Wohler (MN HS basketball legends series)

This is episode one of the new mini-series featuring former
Minnesota High School basketball legends.  We tip-off this
mini-series with Barry Wohler who was a three-sport star at Bird
Island-Lake Lillian High School.  Barry is one of three
athletes in the history of Minnesota to play in three state
all-star games and he did it in football, basketball and
baseball.  He won back-to-back state titles in both football
AND basketball.  His father was his head coach for
basketball.

Barry’s outstanding prep career led him to the University of
Minnesota on a football scholarship, but an injury to his
throwing hand made him focus mostly on basketball and
baseball.  While at Minnesota he was on teams that won a Big
10 title in both basketball and baseball.  He left Minnesota
after two years, where he pursued minor league baseball in the
L.A. Dodgers organization and made it all the way to the Triple-A
level.  He then played basketball for two seasons at St.
Cloud State for a couple of very successful teams.  

After chasing his baseball dream, Barry decided to pursue
coaching on the hardwood and started his coaching career at Belle
Plaine High School.  He then went on to coach the men's
basketball team at Hamline.  From there he ended up at Orono
High School and in 2011 coached that team, that included his son
Brady as a player to the Class 3A state title.  Barry is the
only person in state history to win a basketball state title for
both being coached by his father as a player and then being the
head coach for his son.

He is now a member of the Minnesota High School Basketball Hall
of Fame and just a tremendous guy and storyteller.  Enjoy
this conversation in the Bare’s Den with Bird Island-Lake
Lillian's – Barry Wohler.