Jordan Bar is an Assistant Director of Sports Performance Coach at Duke Sports Performance. He joined the staff full-time in the Fall of 2015 as an assistant Sports Performance Coach after time spent as an intern and volunteer coach within the department.
As a men's soccer student-athlete, Bar attended Fairfield University for two years before transferring to the University of Hartford, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science with a concentration in Spanish Language. Bar is a Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association, a USA Weightlifting Level 1 Coach, FMS Certified, as well as TPI Level 1 and TPI Level 2 in both Fitness and Power
Bar played soccer for many years competitively as a goalkeeper at the elite youth level, winning the US Club Soccer National Championship in 2006, as well as at the division I level winning the MAAC Championship with Fairfield University in 2008. Between his time at Fairfield and Hartford, Bar spent time playing soccer at the professional level overseas in Europe. After Hartford, Bar gained more experience, competing at the semi-professional level in the US playing in the USL-PDL and NASL. In his sapre time, Bar is an avid golfer, and currently holds four club championship titles (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022) at Duke University's Golf Club.