Chadron State College Athletics

Barent was a wrestler and bullrider at Chadron State in the early 1980s. He was the 142-pound champion at the NAIA Area Wrestling Tournament as a junior and a senior after placing second his sophomore year. He had an 82-43-1 career record, including a 26-9 mark as a senior in 1982-83 when one of his losses was by an 11-9 score at the national tournament to Ronnie James of Central Oklahoma, who was on his way to his third national title.
In rodeo, Barent placed in bullriding six times during his college career, including a pair of firsts as a senior.
The 2008-09 school year is his 18th year as an industrial technology teacher and wrestling coach at Worland High School in Wyoming. His teams won the Class 3A state championship in 2000 and 2001 and annually ranked among the top five at the state tournament during a 10-year stretch.
In 2005 he took a leave of absence from his teaching and coaching duties to serve as a platoon sergeant with the Wyoming National Guard in Iraq. He and his wife, Kerri, who also graduated from CSC and teaches in the Worland Middle School, have two sons, including Cody, a former wrestler for the Eagles and a CSC graduate. Dean’s younger brother, Dan, was the first CSC wrestler to win 100 matches for the Eagles and was inducted into the CSC Hall of Fame in 2001. Their older brother, DeWayne, also wrestled and played football at CSC.