Tony "Bones" Barbone ends his run as Pasadena City College's athletic director in charge of the Lancers’ 16 intercollegiate sports teams and Athletics Division staff in August, 2022 after eight years at the job.

In Barbone's tenure, PCC has hired new full-time head coaches in baseball, softball, women's volleyball, men's and women's cross country, men's and women's track and field, and women's soccer. 

In 2021-22, after steering the program through the COVID-19 health pandemic, PCC had great success in football, a 9-2 Lancers team that was Tri-SCFA American Mountain League champions as well as SoCal Bowl champs. The women's volleyball team had a historic 18-0 run to win the South Coast Conference title and the baseball team won more games by any PCC team going back to 1951 with 28 and advanced to the regional playoffs for the fourth consecutive season. The women's basketball team had the state leading scorer in Lupe Vazquez. 

In 2019-20, Barbone saw the football program have its best season in 11 years at 6-4 and finish in second place in the SCFA American Pacific League, including back-to-back shutout victories to end the year. The women's volleyball team made it into the State Top 25 for the first time in five years at #23 while the women's soccer team featured the state's second-leading scorer in phenom Katy Coats. The men's soccer team saw its biggest improvement in four years at 10-8-4 by finishing fifth place in the state's toughest conference-the South Coast, closing the year on a 5-match undefeated streak. The women's basketball team featured the conference MVP in Dariel Johnson and took second place in the also the state's most difficult division--the SCC North. Unfortunately for PCC athletics, the pandemic shut down the 2020 spring sports midway through their seasons.

In 2018-19, Barbone managed a group of teams where half advanced to the postseason in women's volleyball, men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, men's and women's swimming, and women's badminton. Volleyball, badminton and baseball all earned South Coast Conference titles. Among award winners were baseball conference MVP and All-American outfielder Gabriel Arellano, SCC Pitcher of the Year Gordon Ingebritson, SCC Co-Women's Swimmer of the Year Carmen Ung, and conference No. 1 badminton player and state individual runner-up Xiaoming Yao. Pamela Galvan was Libero of the Year in volleyball while women's basketball's Dariel Johnson was twice named All-State and was the 2019-20 SCC North Division MVP. 

In 2017-18, under Barbone's leadership, PCC captured its second consecutive CCCAA state title in women's badminton and conference titles in badminton and women's volleyball and a men's swimming dual meet crown. Baseball, softball, volleyball, women's basketball all earned postseason playoff seeds and men's swimming had their highest finish at state since 1978 in sixth place. Lancers teams had five conference Players/Athletes of the Year in volleyball's Emily Leung, women's basketball's Alisa Shinn, Melissa Cienega in women's swimming, Samuel Jo in men's swimming, and Natalie Ong in badminton. 

In 2016-17, Baseball won its first-ever South Coast title (first since 1972) while PCC baseball coach Pat McGee, who was at one time an assistant coach and a former student-athlete for then head coach Barbone's Azusa Pacific University teams, was named the prestigious SCC All Sports Men's Coach of the Year for the 2016-17 season. McGee is the first Lancers head coach of a men's sport to earn the honor. Three of PCC's recent conference champion coaches were hired under Barbone's watch including badminton's Jen Ho and volleyball's Mike Terrill.

Barbone was voted on to the Management Council as the state baseball representative. He is an executive board member in the California Community College Athletic Directors Association (CCCADA), a former president of the South Coast Conference (SCC), and also served as a president for the Southern California Football Association (SCFA) Central Conference.

From 2009 through 2013, Barbone was the AD at El Camino College. 

Barbone is a legendary college baseball head coach whose coaching career spanned a quarter of a century. He spent 16 years as an 8-time conference champion coach at Azusa Pacific University, collecting more than 500 victories. At the prep level, he directed Azusa High to the CIF Southern Section 1-A title in 1983. Later in his coaching career, Barbone was a minor league manager of the Vermont Expos in 1998-99. Barbone capped his baseball coaching run at Concordia University from 2004-2007.

Originally from Covina, Barbone earned an associate of arts degree at Mt. San Antonio College, then bachelor's and master's degrees at APU.

Barbone and his wife Beth are residents of Glendora. They have two adult daughters, Ashley and Jen, and four grandchildren.