Flagler College Women's Tennis

Puebla was named the seventh head women's tennis coach at Flagler in July of 2016. This past spring, he helped coach Lizanne Jinkertz to a No. 28 final ranking in the ITA Division II national rankings.  Puebla is currently working as the head tennis pro at the Glen Kernan Country Club in Jacksonville, Florida. Prior to that, he served as an assistant coach at Iowa State University in Ames (2011-13). From 2008-11, Puebla was the head women's tennis coach at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. He recruited the eventual two-time Atlantic Sun Conference Player of the Year (Aline Berkenbrock) and was named the league's coach of the year in 2010. The 2010 Ospreys won the A-Sun title and became UNF's first tennis team to ever clinch a berth to the NCAA Tournament. Puebla had served as an assistant men's and women's coach at UNF from 2006-08. Puebla had prior stints at the University of Texas-El Paso (2005-06) as an assistant women coach and as a graduate assistant coach at Columbus State University (2003-05). From 2001-03, Puebla served as the head women's tennis coach and the assistant men's coach at Pikeville (Ky.) College. In 2003, he was selected as the NAIA Region XII and the Mid-South Conference's Women's Tennis Coach of the Year. Puebla coached the league's player of the year, three first-team all-conference singles players and two first-team doubles players as the Bears advanced to the NAIA quarterfinals. As a player, Puebla earned first-team All-Kentucky Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors in 2000 in singles and doubles, after transferring in from Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Alabama. The next season, he helped lead the Bears to the Mid-South title in their first year in the conference. Puebla earned all-conference honors in doubles and was an honorable mention selection as a singles player. Puebla helped lead Pikeville to consecutive NAIA Tournament appearances. He was inducted into Pikeville's Athletics Hall of Fame in 2013,, A native of Chile, Puebla graduated with a bachelor's in business management from Pikeville in 2002. He earned his master's in health services administration from Columbus State in 2005.