Rowan Barrett

{{short description|Canadian basketball player (born 1972)}} {{Infobox basketball biography | name = Rowan Barrett | image = | image_size = | caption = | number = | height_ft = 6 | height_in = 6 | weight_lb = 225 | league = | team = | position = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1972|11|24}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | high_school = West Hill Collegiate Institute<br/>(Toronto, Ontario) | college = St. John's (1992–1996) | draft_year = 1996 | career_start = 1997 | career_end = 2008 | career_number = 5, 8, 9 | career_position = Shooting guard / small forward | coach_start = | coach_end = | years1 = 1997–1998 | team1 = Lucentum Alicante | years2 = 1998–1999 | team2 = Boca Juniors | years3 = 1999, 2001, 2003 | team3 = Cocodrilos de Caracas | years4 = 2000–2001 | team4 = Keravnos | years5 = 2001 | team5 = Dafni | years6 = 2002 | team6 = Maccabi Rishon LeZion | years7 = 2002 | team7 = Hapoel Haifa | years8 = 2002–2003 | team8 = Ramat HaSharon | years9 = 2003–2005 | team9 = JDA Dijon | years10 = 2005–2006 | team10 = Cantù | years11 = 2006–2007 | team11 = ASVEL | years12 = 2007–2008 | team12 = Élan Chalon | highlights = *FIBA Saporta Cup Top Scorer (2001) *French League Best Scorer (2005) *French League All-Star (2003) *Israeli League Top Scorer (2002) *Cypriot League champion (2001) | stat1label = | stat1value = | stat2label = | stat2value = | stat3label = | stat3value = | letter = | bbr = | nba_profile = | HOF_player = | FIBA_HOF_player = | medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{bk|Canada}}}} {{MedalCompetition|FIBA AmeriCup}} {{MedalSilver| 1999 San Juan | }} {{MedalCompetition|Summer Universiade}} {{MedalSilver| 1993 Buffalo | }} {{MedalBronze| 1995 Fukuoka | }} }}

'''Rowan Alexander Barrett Sr.''' (born November 24, 1972) is a Canadian<ref name="fibaeurope">{{Cite web|url=http://www.fibaeurope.com/compID_BYg5Rb55Jw-G5I3MZ6JB01.season_2007.roundID_5084.playerID_10163.teamID_2198.html|title=Rowan Barrett | EuroCup (2007) | FIBA Europe|website=www.fibaeurope.com}}</ref> former professional basketball player. At a height of {{convert|1.98|m|ftin|abbr=on}} tall,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/players/?pcode=000062|title=BARRETT, ROWAN - Welcome to 7DAYS EuroCup|website=www.eurocupbasketball.com}}</ref> he played at the shooting guard and small forward positions. He was the top scorer in the 2002 Israel Basketball Premier League. He is general manager of the Canadian men's national team.

==High school career== Born in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario,<ref name="fibaeurope"/> Barrett attended West Hill Collegiate Institute, where he played high school basketball.

==College career== Barrett played NCAA Division I college basketball at St. John's University, with the St. John's Red Storm, from 1992 to 1996.

==Professional career== Barrett was under contract with the Toronto Raptors (1997 and 1999), and Philadelphia 76ers (1999), but he never played in any NBA regular season games with those teams.

Some of the clubs that Barrett played professionally for include: in Spain with Etosa Alicante (2nd Division) (1997–98), in Argentina with Boca Juniors (1998–99), in Venezuela with Cocodrilos de Caracas (1999, 2001, 2003), in Cyprus with Keravnos Keo (2000–01), in Greece with Dafni (2001), in Israel with Maccabi Rishon LeZion (2002), Hapoel Haifa (2002), and Ramat HaSharon (2002–03), in France with JDA Dijon Basket (2003–05), ASVEL Lyon-Villeurbanne (2006–07), and Élan Chalon (2007–08), and in Italy with Vertical Vision Cantù (2005–06).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://195.56.77.208/player/?id=BAR-ROW-72|title=Legabasket|website=195.56.77.208}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lnb.fr/fr/Pro-A/200006/Joueurs/A08152/Barrett-Rowan|title=Rowan Barrett Chalon/Saône|language=fr|website=www.lnb.fr|access-date=November 2, 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180317233231/http://www.lnb.fr/fr/Pro-A/200006/Joueurs/A08152/Barrett-Rowan|archive-date=March 17, 2018}}</ref>

He was the top scorer in the 2002 Israel Basketball Premier League, scoring 25.5 points per game on 57% two-point shooting and 41% three-point shooting, as he added 5.2 rebounds per game; his one-game highs were 42 points and 10 rebounds.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://basket.co.il/player.asp?PlayerId=259&lang=en|title=ISRAEL BASKETBALL SUPER LEAGUE | Israel Basketball | 2002-03 Season | Ramat Hasharon | Rowan Barrett|website=basket.co.il}}</ref> He was the top scorer of the European-wide 2nd-tier level league, the FIBA Saporta Cup, in the 2000–01 season.

==National team career== Barrett played for the senior Canadian national basketball team. With Canada, he played at the 1998 FIBA World Championship, the 2000 Summer Olympic Games, and the 2002 FIBA World Championship. He also played at the 1993 FIBA AmeriCup, the 1997 FIBA AmeriCup, the 1999 FIBA AmeriCup, and the 2003 FIBA AmeriCup.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q/Rowan%20BARRETT/pid/10163/_//players.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150905211005/http://archive.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/p/rpp//q/Rowan%20BARRETT/pid/10163/_//players.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 5, 2015|title=archive.fiba.com: Players}}</ref>

He also played at the 1999 Pan American Games and the 2003 Pan American Games.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}

==Executive career== Barrett is currently Executive Vice President and General Manager of Canada Basketball.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.basketball.ca/en|title=Canada Basketball|website=www.basketball.ca}}</ref>

==Personal life== Barrett was born in Scarborough, Toronto and is of Jamaican descent.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thecaribbeancamera.com/jamaican-canadian-features-in-record-nba-draft/|title=Jamaican Canadian features in record NBA draft|date=June 29, 2019|website=The Caribbean Camera}}</ref>

Barrett's wife, Kesha Duhaney, is a native of Brooklyn, New York.<ref name="davis">{{cite web |last1=Davis |first1=Seth |title=Canada rising: R.J. Barrett's college announcement will move him one step closer to conquering the world |url=https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/149076/2017/11/08/canada-rising-r-j-barretts-college-announcement-will-move-him-one-step-closer-to-conquering-the-world/ |publisher=The Athletic |access-date=May 2, 2026|date=November 8, 2017}}</ref> She was a nationally ranked sprinter and long jumper for St. John's University before working for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.<ref name=davis/><ref name="grange">{{cite web |last1=Grange |first1=Michael |title=Poster Boy: Rowan Barrett Jr. Rising |url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/basketball/nba/poster-boy-rowan-barrett-jr-rising/ |publisher=Sportsnet |access-date=May 2, 2026|date=August 17, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pecar |first1=Steve |title=Mississauga's Barrett receives top basketball honour |url=https://peelregionreview.com/mississaugas-barrett-receives-top-basketball-honour/ |website=Peel Region Review |access-date=January 6, 2019 |date=March 9, 2018}}</ref> The couple first met while attending St. John's.<ref name=grange/>

The Barretts had two children together, of which one survives.

Their older son, Rowan Jr., better known as RJ Barrett, was ranked as the number one high-school basketball player in the class of 2018,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=espn:16069307|title=Barrett, Bassey headline the new ESPN 25 - ESPN Video}}</ref> and enrolled at Duke University for a year before being selected 3rd overall by the New York Knicks in the 2019 NBA draft. He was later traded to the Toronto Raptors, where he became a star.<ref>https://www.thestar.com/sports/raptors/raptors-hometown-hero-rj-barrett-cashes-in-on-the-moment-of-a-lifetime/article_a7138c44-9281-4ca4-8f04-e639ade179a0.html</ref>

thumb | right | alt=Profile photo of a man wearing a grey “Los Knicks” t-shirt and orange headband looking up to right | Barrett's son, Rowan Alexander "RJ" Barrett, Jr.

The Barretts' younger son, Nathan, died tragically in 2024 several weeks after contracting an illness which ultimately took his life. The illness was not publicly identified.<ref>https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/after-so-many-triumphs-barrett-family-now-facing-the-ultimate-loss/</ref>

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/players/?pcode=000062 EuroCup profile] *[http://www.fibaeurope.com/compID_BYg5Rb55Jw-G5I3MZ6JB01.season_2007.roundID_5084.playerID_10163.teamID_2198.html FIBA Europe profile] *[http://web.legabasket.it/player/?id=BAR-ROW-72 Italian League profile] {{in lang|it}} *[http://esake.gr/el/action/EsakeplayerView?idteam=0000001D&idchampionship=0000000C&idplayer=00000327&mode=1 Greek Basket League profile] {{in lang|el}} *[http://www.lnb.fr/fr/Pro-A/200006/Joueurs/A08152/Barrett-Rowan French League profile] {{in lang|fr}} *[http://basket.co.il/player.asp?PlayerId=8673&lang=en Israeli Super League profile] *{{SR/Olympics profile|ba/rowan-barrett-1}} *{{Sports links}}

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