Barryn Shark (New York, NY/Mount Saint Joseph Academy) commences his new role with the Russell Sage College Athletic Department on June 11, 2023. No stranger to the Gators, Shark is the department's new Director of Athletic Operations and Business Manager. He joins the athletic department staff full-time after serving a role in the College Services Department as well as serving as an assistant men's basketball coach the past academic year.

Shark spent the previous two years as the graduate assistant for RSC’s Athletic Communications office. Shark, a 2020 graduate of Clarkson University, earned his MBA from Russell Sage College’s Graduate School in May of 2022.

A four-year letterwinner at Clarkson on the men’s basketball team, Shark excelled in the classroom and on the hardwood for the Golden Knights’ basketball team. Handing out over 200 career assists, he ranks among the program’s career assist leaderboard, while also having earned numerous Dean’s List citations. He was the president of the Clarkson Chess Club and the recipient of a Leadership Award, while earning his bachelor of science degree in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics as well as a minor in Quality Based Project Management.

Shark worked for three years in game day operations at Clarkson, garnering experience in volleyball and soccer. He also assisted with the video live streaming for the men’s and women’s lacrosse programs at Clarkson. In addition, he brings additional skills and experience having completed several academic projects including a Data Analytics Project, where he planned and built a data driven application in Python. Shark also created a narrative, ERD diagrams and wrote basic HTML that was centered around the creation of an online sneaker store. In the fall of his senior year, he was also involved with a Big Data Architecture project that web scraped and parsed information from espn.com’s NBA box scores using Python coding skills. The open-ended project was graded based on usability, unit testing, complexity, and documentation/questions and Shark earned a 100% for his efforts and work.