She has four PWBA Tour titles to date, including a major championship at the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open, in which she won a PWBA-record $100,000 first prize.
[3] At Vanderbilt University, Barnes (then Josie Earnest) was a member of the team that won the 2007 NCAA Women’s Bowling Championships, and was voted Most Outstanding Player of this event.
[4] As a junior player, Barnes won four gold medals (singles, trios, team and all-events) at the 2008 Pan American Bowling Confederation (PABCON) Youth Championships.
After a mostly unsuccessful 2015 campaign, she broke through with her first professional title at the PWBA Rochester Open, the tenth event of the 2016 season.
At this event, Barnes earned the #1 seed in qualifying, and won her lone finals match against Singapore’s Cherie Tan by a score of 198–194.