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{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1951)}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
 | name              = Barry Parkhill
 | image             = Barry Parkhill.jpg
 | image_size        = 200px
 | caption           = 
 | height_ft         = 6
 | height_in         = 4
 | weight_lb         = 185
 | birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1951|5|10}}
 | birth_place       = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
 | death_date        = 
 | death_place       = 
 | high_school       = [[State College Area High School|State College]]<br>([[State College, Pennsylvania]])
 | college           = [[Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball|Virginia]] (1970–1973)
 | draft_year        = 1973
 | draft_round       = 1
 | draft_pick        = 15
 | draft_team        = [[Portland Trail Blazers]]
 | career_start      = 1973
 | career_end        = 1976
 | career_number     = 40
 | career_position   = [[Shooting guard]]
 | coach_start       = 1977
 | coach_end         = 1992
 | years1            = 1973–1975 | team1             = [[Virginia Squires]]
 | years2            = 1975–1976 | team2             = [[Spirits of St. Louis]]
 | cyears1           = 1977–1978 | cteam1            = [[Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball|Virginia]] (grad. assistant)
 | cyears2           = 1978–1983 | cteam2            = [[William & Mary Tribe men's basketball|William & Mary]] (assistant)
 | cyears3           = 1983–1987 | cteam3            = William & Mary
 | cyears4           = 1989–1990 | cteam4            = [[Saint Michael's College|Saint Michael's]]
 | cyears5           = 1990–1992 | cteam5            = [[Navy Midshipmen men's basketball|Navy]] (assistant)
 | highlights        = 
* Consensus second-team [[NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|All-American]] ([[1972 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1972]])
* Third-team All-American – [[National Association of Basketball Coaches|NABC]] ([[1973 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans|1973]])
* [[Atlantic Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year|ACC Player of the Year]] (1972)
* [[ACC Athlete of the Year]] (1972)
* First-team [[List of All-Atlantic Coast Conference men's basketball teams|All-ACC]] (1972)
* 2× Second-team All-ACC (1971, 1973)
* No. 40 [[Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball#Retired numbers|retired by Virginia Cavaliers]]
}}
'''Barry Parkhill''' (born May 10, 1951) is a retired American professional [[basketball]] player from [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] who was selected by the [[Portland Trail Blazers]] in the 1st round (15th overall) of the [[1973 NBA draft]] but elected to play in the [[American Basketball Association]] (ABA) instead. A {{convert|6|ft|4|in|m||adj=on}} guard-forward from the [[University of Virginia]], Parkhill played in three ABA seasons for two different teams. He played for the [[Virginia Squires]] and the [[Spirits of St. Louis]].

In 2001, Parkhill was inducted into the [[Virginia Sports Hall of Fame]].

==Playing career==

===High school===
Parkhill attended and played basketball for [[State College Area High School|State College High School]] in [[State College, Pennsylvania]]. He is among the all-time scoring leaders and broke the 1,000 point barrier during his senior year.<ref>[http://www.scasd.org/24974091585055/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=56867 State College High School Website] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070218191842/http://www.scasd.org/24974091585055/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=56867 |date=February 18, 2007 }}</ref>

===College===
Parkhill was named the [[ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year]] and the [[ACC Athlete of the Year]] for the 1971–72 season when he averaged 21.6 points per game and led the Cavaliers to their second postseason appearance in school history.<ref>[http://www.thesabre.com/news_archive/showArticle-2098.php Sean McLernon ''Last Ball in U-Hall: Parkhill Raised UVa's Profile'' TheSabre.com Jun 22, 2006]</ref> His number 40 was retired at the end of his senior season. In 2002, Parkhill was named to the [[ACC 50th Anniversary men's basketball team]] as one of the 50 greatest players in [[Atlantic Coast Conference]] history.

{|class="toccolours"
!colspan=7 bgcolor=#eeeeee|[[University of Virginia]] Career<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thedraftreview.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=884|title=Barry Parkhill First Round 15th Overall - The Draft Review|website=thedraftreview.com}}</ref>
|-bgcolor=silver
!SEASONS||GP||FG%||FT%||RPG||APG||PPG
|-
|1969-70||colspan=6|''Freshmen Stats Were Not Available''
|-bgcolor=#eeeeee
|1970-71||26||42.1||80.7||4.0||4.8||15.9
|-
|1971-72||28||45.2||76.5||4.5||4.3||21.6
|-bgcolor=#eeeeee
|1972-73||25||40.2||82.7||3.7||5.0||16.8
|-bgcolor=silver
!Totals||79||42.8||79.6||4.1||4.7||18.2
|}

===Professional===
In his ABA career, Parkhill played in 173 games and scored a total of 970 points. His best year as a professional came during the 1975 season with the Virginia Squires appearing in 78 games and scoring 607 points.

====Regular season====
{|class="toccolours"
!colspan=21 bgcolor=#eeeeee|Professional Career<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/parkhba01.html|title=Barry Parkhill Stats - Basketball-Reference.com|website=Basketball-Reference.com}}</ref>
|-bgcolor=silver
!Year||Ag||Tm||Lg||G||MP||FG||FGA||3P||3PA||FT||FTA||ORB||DRB||TRB||AST||STL||BLK||TO||PF||PTS||PPG
|-
|1974||22||[[Virginia Squires|VIR]]||[[American Basketball Association|ABA]]||60||869||115||310||3||16||50||61||13||52||65||96||28||12||80||151||283||4.7
|-bgcolor=#eeeeee
|1975||23||VIR||ABA||78||1870||266||638||0||8||75||100||27||106||133||226||50||11||170||228||607||7.8
|-
|1976||24||[[Spirits of St. Louis|SSL]]||ABA||35||377||37||100||1||11||5||8||2||24||26||64||9||7||29||46||80||2.3
|-bgcolor=silver
!TOTALS|| || || ||173||3116||418||1048||4||35||130||169||42||182||224||386||87||30||279||425||970||5.6
|}

====Playoffs====
{{NBA player statistics start}}
|-
| align="left" | [[1973–74 ABA season|1973–74]]
| align="left" | [[1973-74 Los Angeles Lakers season|Los Angeles]]
| 3 || - || 3.0 || .429 || &ndash; || &ndash; || .3 || .7 || .3 || .0 || 2.0
|}

==Post playing career==

===Coaching===
* 1977–1978 – [[Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball|University of Virginia]], Graduate Assistant Coach (under [[Terry Holland]])
* 1978–1983 – Assistant Coach, [[William & Mary Tribe men's basketball|William & Mary]] (under brother [[Bruce Parkhill]])
* 1984–1987 – [[Head Coach]], [[William & Mary Tribe men's basketball|William & Mary]] (Record: 43–68, .387)<ref>[http://www.tribeathletics.com/story.php/4976/ William & Mary Men's Basketball History] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061122130103/http://www.tribeathletics.com/story.php/4976/ |date=November 22, 2006 }}</ref>
* 1989–1990 – Head Coach, [[Saint Michael's College]] (Record: 9–18, .333)<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.smcathletics.com/sports/mbkb/history|title=Saint Michael's Men's Basketball History & Records|website=smcathletics.com}}</ref>
* 1990–1992 – Assistant Coach, [[Navy Midshipmen men's basketball|Navy]]

===Administration===
* 1992–1994 – Associate Director of Regional Development, University of Virginia Office of Development
* 1995–1998 – Director of Alumni Development, University of Virginia Alumni Association / Director of Capital Projects for Athletics
* 1999–present – University of Virginia Associate Director of Athletics for Development

== References ==
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