Win Puffer was named as the W-League Coach for the 2009 season. Puffer joined the Freedom staff in the spring of 2006 as an assistant coach to the Under-20 team and helped lead the team to the first USL Super-20 North American Title. Since 2007 Puffer was named as the Assistant Coach for the W-League team and took over as the Head Coach of the Freedom’s Under-20 Team. Puffer was named the Director of the Soccer club and oversees the club’s Center of Excellence youth development program.
Outside of the Freedom, Puffer has also coached with the Freestate Soccer Alliance most recently the Freestate Shooters girls team that won the 2007 U17 US Club Soccer National Title, 2008 & 2009 State Cup Titles and were Region 1 Finalists in 2009. Puffer is also on the coaching staff at Stevenson University having helped to turn the program into one of the toughest teams in the Capital Athletic Conference.
Prior to his appointment to the Freedom staff, he was the Program Director at a local soccer club and a staff coach at Loyola Blakefield HS in Baltimore. In 2005 he helped lead the Dons to the MIAA Championship. Puffer has been an ODP coach with Maryland and New Hampshire from 1999-2008, working as a girls head coach in Maryland since the fall of 2004. Prior to moving to Maryland in 2002, he worked with his boyhood club Seacoast United SC in New Hampshire where he also played for their semi-pro indoor team from 2000-2002. Puffer was also a member of the Allegheny College Soccer Team from 1995-1998 before a serious injury curbed his senior season. He was then brought into the coaching staff for the 1998-1999 season.
Born in Durham, NH, Puffer currently resides in Germantown, MD.