Amherst College Athletics

• Coached eight teams to NCAA Division III semifinals
• Coached 13 goalkeepers to postseason accolades
• Part of coaching staff for nine NESCAC champions 

Assistant Coach Jeff Huffman enters his eighth season at Amherst in 2025. This will be Huffman’s eighth season as men’s goalkeeper coach and seventh in the same role for the women’s team. In total, Huffman has seen 13 different goalkeepers on his teams receive individual postseason accolades in 21 seasons of collegiate soccer. He has been part of staffs that have participated in eight national semifinals, won nine NESCAC titles, been awarded the National Men’s Staff of the Year in 2024, Regional Men’s Staff of the Year in 2019, and the Regional Women’s Staff of the Year in 2022 and 2023. In total, Huffman has coached four goalkeepers at the collegiate level that have gone on to professional careers.

Huffman’s time at Amherst has been among the most storied period of success in both programs' history. During his seven seasons, the men have been to the national title game four times, while collecting two NESCAC titles and a national championship along the way. From 2021 to 2024, the women collected the most victories in a four-year stretch in program history (65), winning three consecutive NESCAC titles and making four NCAA Tournament appearances — capping it off with an NCAA quarterfinal appearance in 2024.

In 2024, Max Landa capped off his career by being selected to the NCAA All-Tournament Team for the national championship side. For the women, Mika Fisher finished her career by leading the NESCAC in shutouts while being selected to the New England Women’s Intercollegiate Soccer Association's First Team.

In 2023, Landa was in goal for the Mammoths during their run to the national final. He had the second-lowest goals against average and the second-most shutouts of all NESCAC goalkeepers. The women’s goalkeepers combined for the most shutouts in the NESCAC (13), while having the second-lowest goals against average overall of all NESCAC squads.

The 2022 season bought the end of the career on the men’s side to Bernie White with an appearance in the NCAA Tournament round of 16. A few months after the season, White signed a contract with Scottish Fifth Division side Caledonian Braves of the Lowland League. The women’s side also made a run to the round of 16, as Fisher led the NESCAC in shutouts on the season.

It was a special 2021 season for Huffman. The men’s side advanced to the national title game as his goalkeepers combined on the season for the most shutouts (15) and lowest goals against average (0.41) in all of Division III men’s soccer. Additionally, Kofi Hope-Gund was named to the NCAA All-Tournament Team. On the women’s side, Fisher was named the United Soccer Coaches First Team All-America goalie in her debut collegiate season.

During the 2019 season, the men’s goalkeepers recorded the lowest goals against average and had the highest save percentage in NESCAC play. After the 2018 season, White was tabbed by New England Soccer Journal as one of the top three Division III first-year goalkeepers in all of New England. On the women’s side, the 2019 season saw the goalkeepers combine to record the fewest goals allowed and record the highest save percentage for the entire season of all NESCAC squads. After the 2018 and 2019 seasons, women’s goalkeeper Antonia Tammaro was named Second Team All-NESCAC.

Previously, Huffman was part of the staff at rival Williams College for parts of 10 seasons. During his time at Williams, Huffman was part of a coaching staff that guided three teams to the national semifinals while seeing seven players move on to the professional ranks during his time on staff. At one time or another at Williams, he served as a volunteer, second and first assistant coach. His past on-field duties included serving as goalkeeper coach and reserve team head coach. During his time as goalkeeper coach, he oversaw the development of Nick Armington, who is one of only four NCAA Division III goalkeepers to ever make an MLS regular season roster, and Than Finan. Finan was tabbed as an All-American after the 2012 season, the first All-American goalkeeper produced at Williams in a quarter-century. In addition to those two, goalkeeper Peter Morrell was named Second Team NSCAA All-New England North at the conclusion of the 2013 season and Christian Alcorn was named Second Team NSCAA All-New England North at the conclusion of the 2016 season. As reserve team head coach, Huffman posted a .600 winning percentage over four seasons.

Outside of Williams, Huffman’s resume includes a head coaching stint at NJCAA Division I Garden City Community College in Kansas as head men’s and women’s coach (2004-2006) and as head women’s coach/director of soccer operations (2007-2009). He had a winning percentage of .625 as head men’s coach, while seeing his women’s program make the Region VI Tournament four out of five seasons. In total, six of his players moved on to the NCAA Division I level. His assistant during that time, Stephen Gorton, went on to be named one of the top 12 NCAA Division I assistants in the country by CollegeSoccerNews.com in spring 2016 and is currently the head men’s soccer coach at NCAA Division I Purdue Fort Wayne of the Horizon League.

In addition, Huffman spent the 2010 season as the men’s goalkeeper coach at NCAA Division I University at Albany. In his one season on staff, he coached Trinidad and Tobago men’s national team goalkeeper Adrian Foncette. Foncette was in between the sticks for the T&T squad that knocked the U.S. men’s national team out of FIFA World Cup qualifying in October 2017.

Huffman is a licensed coach through the USSF, while having earned his Advanced National Diploma and Goalkeeping Level 3 Diploma through the United Soccer Coaches organization. He is employed full-time at Interprint in Pittsfield and resides in North Adams.