Joey Barnes begins his second year at the helm of Seattle U men's and women's tennis in 2019, reaching 25 years of experience in tennis coaching.
In his first season at the helm of Seattle U tennis (Spring 2019), Barnes’ teams produced seven total Academic All-WAC honorees – four on the men’s side and three on the women’s side. The women found some degree of success on the court, with Barnes coaching them to 7-0 sweeps of Lewis-Clark State, Puget Sound, Lewis and Clark and George Fox. Martina Asciuto was honored by the WAC as their Female Tennis Singles Athlete of the Week for Jan. 29-Feb. 4; on Feb. 12-18, Kali McCollister received the same award. The men’s team also recorded a sweep of their own, defeating Puget Sound, 7-0.
Barnes spent the 2016-17 and 2017-18 seasons as the head coach of the men’s and women’s programs at South Dakota State. He produced multiple academically honored student-athletes, including distinguished scholars, Summit League Commissioner’s List of Academic Excellence and academic honor roll. He guided one male player to wild card entry into a Men’s Professional Tour qualifying event and coached a women’s doubles team to an undefeated regular-season of play.
Prior to SDSU, Barnes served four seasons as the head women's tennis coach at Upper Iowa University, where he compiled a 45-29 overall dual record, including a 33-10 mark in Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference matches. The Peacocks improved from a sixth-place finish in the NSIC his first season to back-to-back runner-up showings in 2015 and 2016.
While still serving in the United States Navy, Barnes joined the University of Maryland coaching staff as a volunteer assistant for both the men's and tennis teams, starting in 1994. He was elevated to a full-time women's assistant coach in 2003, helping lead the Terrapins to NCAA Tournament berths in 2005, 2006 and 2007. He also served a stint as interim head coach for the program, which finished the 2005-06 season ranked in the top 35 nationally.
In 2008, Barnes moved on to Florida Gulf Coast University as an assistant women's coach for four-plus seasons. While at FGCU, he helped coach five all-Atlantic Sun Conference performers.
Aside from collegiate coaching, Barnes was senior tennis director of the Mid-Atlantic Tennis Academy in Rockville, Maryland, from 2002-07 and was assistant director of Tennis Dynamics in Naples, Fla, from 2009-12.