Coaches and Staff
Head Coach & Founder
2002--Present
Darrin Barner
Club Founder and Head Coach Darrin Barner has played rugby for 14 years before stepping away from the game when he was Captain for the Fort Worth Old Boys when they played the Kenyan Exiles in Dallas in 2002. Barner played for the Storm Lake Iowa Albatross a Division 3 level team from 1989-1994 when he was employed by Wayne State College as the Intramural Sports Coordinator.
Barner then played for the Fort Worth RFC from 1994-2002 after taking a position with Northwest Airlines and moving down to Fort Worth, TX. Along with a National Championship with the Fort Worth RFC in 2000, Barner and the rest of the players from Fort Worth had a very strong program and was a top 20 team in the USA from 1996-2001.
Barner has been to 17 countries and is always game for a tour overseas. He has taken in a few International games in both the Southern and Northern hemisphere, along with some World Cup games in Wales and England when they hosted the World Cup in 1999.
Barner was able to get the Official Steinlager Goal Post Pads from the New Zealand All Blacks VS Argentina game when Barner, with other players were under the stadium at a VIP party after the All Blacks victory. Barner also had a brief rugby tour, and had a few days with Kim Erikson the President of the Norwegian International Side in Norway in 1998, during some rugby time in Oslo, Norway.
Barner has taken the playbook from Fort Worth, and has modified it to the college level for Wayne State. Barner credits his former coach Mike Kwedar, with all the victories won by WSC when it comes down to the X's and O's. Coach Kwedar after building Fort Worth to a national powerhouse in the late 1990's, moved on and coached Baylor University and in one year, had the Baylor Bears win the USA collegiate title the year after he stepped away from coaching the Fort Worth men.
Coach Kwedar's playbook and practice drills that were used when Barner was a player, is now the playbook for WSC.
