Geoff Buffum

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Geoff Buffum (born June 27, 1976 ) is an American football coach and former player.

Life

Buffum played football at San Clemente High School in his hometown of San Clemente , California . At college level, the quarterback played for two years for Willamette University in Oregon , then a season in the same state for the team at Linfield College and in the 1998 game year for Azusa Pacific University . In December 1998 he won the championship title in the NAIA university league with Azusa Pacific . He studied political science and sports.

Buffum moved to Europe for the first time in 1999 and played in Germany for the Elmshorn Fighting Pirates before he returned home during the season to take up a position in the coaching staff of Azusa Pacific. In 1999 and 2000 he was responsible for looking after the wide receivers  . In 2001, he worked as an attack coordinator and quarterback coach at his former school, San Clemente High School, and in 2002 he was an assistant coach at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California, where he was responsible for the quarterback position. For the 2003 game year, Buffum moved to the state of Illinois , where he worked at Greenville University and took on the coaching positions for quarterback and running back. In 2004 and 2005 he was again active at Saddleback College, where he coordinated the attack game and took care of the quarterbacks.

Outside of the football season in his home country, Buffum worked in Austria  as head coach for the Swarco Raiders Tirol from 2004 . He held this position until the summer of 2008, sometimes as a player-coach. Under his leadership, the team won the national championship in 2004 and 2006, the European Cup EFAF Cup in 2004 and the Eurobowl in 2008 . Buffum returned to the United States and joined the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in January 2009 as assistant coach for the quarterback position. At the end of March 2010, he was also promoted to the post of attack coordinator on the university team.

For the 2011 season Buffum returned to Europe and was under head coach Dave Likins attack coordinator of the Berlin Adler in the top German division GFL . He contributed to the entry of Berliners into the Eurobowl, which was lost to the Swarco Raiders in June 2011.

In the run-up to the 2012 season, he took over as head coach at the Calanda Broncos in Switzerland. There Buffum worked again with Likins, who took over the office of defense coordinator, while Buffum, unlike in Berlin, now had the main responsibility for the team. He led the Bündner in 2012 to win the Swiss championship and to win the Eurobowl .

Buffum then moved to Norway as head coach for the Eidsvoll 1814s . He looked after the team in 2013 and 2014. In his first year he won the Norwegian championship with Eidsvoll.

In 2014 Buffum married a Swiss woman and in the run-up to the 2015 season took over the position of head coach at the Calanda Broncos. Under Buffum's leadership, the team won the Swiss championship in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Editor: Geoff Buffum remains head coach. September 20, 2005, accessed on March 6, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ San Clemente's Newman Leads Rout of Santiago. September 25, 1993, Retrieved March 6, 2020 (American English).
  3. ↑ a b Shinnick Names Buffum To Quarterbacks Post. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Counting Down: No. 2. Accessed March 6, 2020 (English).
  5. ^ Azusa Pacific Wins NAIA Crown. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  6. ^ Hamburger Abendblatt- Hamburg: Now they have to fight - for survival. August 14, 1999, accessed on March 15, 2020 (German).
  7. ↑ Editor: Buffum is a Berliner. February 2, 2011, accessed on March 6, 2020 (German).
  8. ↑ Buffum returns to the USA. In: football-austria.com. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Robesonian: Euro Champ Buffin joins staff. July 28, 2015, Retrieved March 6, 2020 (American English).
  10. ↑ Shinnick Announces Coaching Staff Promotions. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Editor: Buffum is a Berliner. February 2, 2011, accessed on March 6, 2020 (German).
  12. ^ EFL European Football League. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Geoff Buffum on the Broncos. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Likins from the Eagles to the Broncos. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Buffum should have a long-term effect. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Buffum becomes Scandinavian. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  17. ↑ a b J. M. Henriksen: Geoff Buffum: De to årene hos Eidsvoll var mine Beste! In: Amerikansk Fotball. July 15, 2017, accessed on March 6, 2020 (nb-NO).
  18. ↑ Geoff Buffum or the Calanda Broncos' hope for continuity. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Geoff Buffum: "In Chur you have to turn every stone". March 6, 2017, accessed on March 6, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
  20. ↑ Swiss Bowl in Chur: The facts, the voices, the emotions. July 14, 2019, accessed on March 6, 2020 (Swiss Standard German).
personal data
SURNAME Buffum, Geoff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1976