CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Stevenson University men's lacrosse assistant coach Tim Puls has been named a recipient of the first ever Coaches Legacy Award presented by the National Junior College Athletic Association.

Nearly 200 coaches across 28 different sports were nominated by the member colleges at which they coached. The award recipients will be honored on June 17 in Charlotte.

Puls, who recently competed his twenth season as an assistant coach at Stevenson, made his mark as a highly successful coach at CCBC Essex where he spent 22 seasons from 1983-2003. He won over 71 percent of his games, totaling a 213-90 career record while winning 15 Maryland Junior College Championships, 14 Region XX titles and the 1991 NJCAA national championship, becoming the first Maryland junior college to ever win the NJCAA title.

The Knights advanced to the NJCAA semifinals 14 times and finished as the runner-up on six occasions. Puls was named NJCAA National Coach of the Year in 1990 and 1995 and Maryland Junior College Coach of the Year 15 times, including eight-straight from 1988-95.

He was named the McDonald's Challenge Cup Coach of the Year in 1983, a finalist for a coaching position on the U.S. National Team in 2002 and head coach of the NJCAA Region XX and NJCAA South All-Star teams.

In 2015, Puls was inducted into the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) Lacrosse Coaches Hall of Fame. A year prior, he was inducted into the CCBC Hall of Fame.