• MACCC Women's Tennis Coach of the Year (2026. 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018)
• MACCC Men's Tennis Coach of the Year (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022)
• NJCAA Region 23 Women's Coach of the Year (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2018)
• NJCAA Region 23 Men's Coach of the Year (2025, 2024, 2022)
• ITA Region III Women's Coach of the Year (2026, 2024, 2023, 2021, 2018)
• ITA Region III Men's Coach of the Year (2025, 2022, 2021)
• Wilson/ITA Women's National Coach of the Year (2026, 2024)
• NJCAA Herschel Stephens Coaching Award Winner (2021-22)
• NJCAA Division II National Championship Coach of the Tournament (2026)
Brooks Buffington enters his 11th season as head coach of the nationally-ranked Jones College men's and women’s tennis programs.
Buffington led the women's team to its and the state's first-ever NJCAA Division II National Championship (17-0) last season and the men finished 16-2 and went on to finish a program-best fourth in the national tournament.
Buffington racked up on individual awards, being named the 2026 MACCC Women's and Men's Coach of the Year and NJCAA Region 23, ITA Region III and ITA National Coach of the Year on the women's side as well as the National Championship Coach of the Tournament.
The women have sported a collective 177-14 record with seven conference titles and the men are 156-46 in Buffington's 10 seasons with five consecutive MACCC Championships. He's guided the Bobcats to an additional 10 combined region titles and 17 NJCAA National Tournament appearances.
Jones' women have posted back-to-back-to-back perfect seasons (56-0 combined) and won six straight MACCC and NJCAA Region 23 Championships.
Lola Martinez, Theresa Emelio, Josie Tullos and Heidi Clayton grabbed 2026 NJCAA All-American individual honors and the doubles teams of Emelio/Clayton, Piquin/Martinez and Tullos/Porcello captured NJCAA First Team All-American status.
Helen Hernandez and Molly Bennett finished as 2025 national runner-up at No. 1 doubles to cap a 25-2 season and grab NJCAA Second Team All-American honors.
Juan Francisco Pereyra and Felipe Morales grabed NJCAA Second Team All-American honors on the men's side after going 20-2 and 18-4 at No.'s 1 and 3 singles, respectively.
Matias Ruiz was Jones' first-ever individual national champion and NJCAA First Team All-American in 2025 at No. 1 singles.
Buffington received the 2021-22 NJCAA Herschel Stephens Coaching Award for his service and dedication to the NJCAA Coaches Association after leading the men to three trips to the national championship in a five-year period.
Jones swept the 2025 MACCC Men's and Women's Players of the Year in Matias Ruiz and Helen Hernandez, 2024 with Guadalupe Tocci and Matias Ruiz and 2022 Players of the Year in Tomi Nader and Addy Seward.
Jones has been equally impressive off the court under Buffington's watch. The Bobcats have boasted dozens of ITA Scholar-Athletes and had one of the state's and nation's top GPAs year in and year out to win MACCC and NJCAA Academic Teams of the Year.
Jones has won the coveted ITA Arthur Ashe Leadership & Sportsmanship National Award eight times in the junior college division. Josie Tullos and Ridge Jones (2026) are the newest winners, joining Ethin McKinnon (2025), Dawson Do (2024), Ally Brooke Chism and Trey Hilton (2021) and Danielle Viljoen and James McWilliams (2020).
Prior to Jones, Buffington was a tennis paraprofessional coach for six years at Northwest Rankin High School, spent four seasons at Hartfield Academy as head coach and was a three-year head tennis pro at Reservoir YMCA. He was also the head tennis pro at Castlewoods Country Club from 2007-2014.
Buffington played collegiately at Jones during the 2003-04 seasons and finished his career at Mississippi College. He received Jones' Bobcat Award as a sophomore and MC's Choctaw Award his junior and senior seasons.
He's been playing in the USTA League since 2007 and his team won the 2013 USTA 4.5 Adult League National Championship. For the past five years, Buffington has been a USTA NTRP 5.0 Player. He's been a USPTA elite professional since 2008.
Off the court, Buffington is co-chair on the ITA JUCO operating committee, ITA rules committee member, ITA Operating Council, ITA JUCO Women's and Men's Tennis Region III Rankings chairman, NJCAA Men's Tennis Coaches Association President and MACCC Tennis Coaches Association President.
Buffington is married to the former Sarah Spraberry of Southaven. The couple celebrated their 11-year wedding anniversary in May 2025. They are proud parents of James and Anne Elizabeth.
