1. Trent Barrett was born on 18 November 1977 and is an Australian professional rugby league football coach who is currently the assistant coach of the Brisbane Broncos and a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
Trent Barrett was previously the head coach of the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League.
Trent Barrett was born in Temora, New South Wales on 18 November 1977.
Trent Barrett is a cousin of Australian rules footballers Luke Breust and Jake Barrett, NRL footballer Liam Martin and Australian water polo player Anthony Martin.
Trent Barrett started his professional career in the 1996 ARL season with the Illawarra Steelers.
Trent Barrett was the stand-out player of the 1998 Illawarra Steelers season, top scoring with 18 tries and winning the BHP Medal as player of the year.
Trent Barrett played at halfback in St George Illawarra's 1999 NRL Grand Final loss to Melbourne.
Trent Barrett scored 6 tries in 20 games in the 2002 NRL season.
In 2003, while Trent Barrett was captain of St George Illawarra, Nathan Brown who was the coach at the time famously slapped Trent Barrett across the face in a tense sideline spray alongside Lance Thompson.
Trent Barrett was suspended for six matches, ruling him out of Dally M Medal contention.
Trent Barrett had two years left on his St George Illawarra Dragons contract, but a get-out clause enabled him to quit the club for a move to England.
Trent Barrett signed a three-year deal with the Wigan Warriors on 4 May 2006, despite their position at the bottom of the Super League and the threat of relegation to National League Division 1.
In October 2007, Trent Barrett was named as the Rugby League Players' Player of the Year but missed out on the "Man of Steel" although he had been tipped to be named.
Trent Barrett earned the five-eighth spot for the New South Wales team in the 2nd State of Origin match of 2009.
On 5 April 2014, Trent Barrett was announced as the new head coach of the Italian national rugby league team when previous coach Carlo Napolitano announced his departure after Italy's 2013 Rugby League World Cup campaign.
Trent Barrett coached Italy in their World Cup Qualifying matches, while Paul Broadbent coached Italy in the minor European Championship competitions.
In 2016, Trent Barrett became the head coach for Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles.
In 2018, Manly and Trent Barrett suffered a horror year on and off the field with the club finishing second last and narrowly avoiding the wooden spoon.
Trent Barrett eventually supplied the chairs himself but the effort was too late to save the season.
On 22 October 2018, Manly announced that former two-time premiership-winning coach Des Hasler would be appointed as the new Manly head coach for 2019 despite the fact that Trent Barrett still had 12 months remaining on his contract and was not officially terminated by the club.
On 6 August 2019, Trent Barrett spoke to the media and said that in some way he deserved credit for Manly's form reversal in 2019 which saw the club go from finishing second last in 2018 to contenders the following season.
On 16 August 2019, it was announced that Trent Barrett would be returning to Penrith as assistant coach to Ivan Cleary beginning in 2020.
On 23 July 2020, it was announced that Trent Barrett would be the head coach of Canterbury-Bankstown from 2021 onwards on a three-year deal.
Trent Barrett began his head coaching role with an opening round defeat against Newcastle.
On 16 May 2022, Trent Barrett resigned from his role as head coach of the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs.
Trent Barrett finished his tenure with the second lowest win percentage of any Canterbury coach since the clubs foundation in 1935 with 15.2 percent, only inaugural head coach Tedda Courtney had a lower win percentage with 12.5 percent.
On 18 August 2022, Trent Barrett signed with the Parramatta Eels as an assistant coach, starting in 2023.
On 20 May 2024, Trent Barrett was named interim head coach at the Parramatta club after Brad Arthur was terminated from the head coaching position.
Trent Barrett took over Parramatta with the team sitting 14th on the table.