Lynnette Buffington enters her second year as head coach of the women's soccer program at Pacific Lutheran.

Buffington brings four years of NCAA Division III college coaching experience to PLU. From 2003-06, she served as women's soccer head coach at Villa Julie College in Baltimore, Md. In those four years she improved the winning percentage of the program from .139 to .714, as well as winning two conference championships and leading her 2006 team to the round of 32 in the NCAA Division III national tournament.

Prior to coaching at Villa Julie, Buffington was the women's soccer head coach at Tacoma Community College where she compiled a 35-5-4 overall record from 1999-2001. She led the Titans to two Southwest Division championships and three NWAACC tournament appearances, taking two of the teams to the quarterfinals and one to the semifinals.

Buffington, a Tacoma native, graduated from Tacoma's Stadium High School in 1992 and from Gonzaga University in 1996. She becomes the fourth coach in the program's history.