Jose Fernandez (basketball)

Jose Fernandez
	Fernandez in 2023
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	South Florida
Conference	The American
Record	462–306 (.602)
Biographical details
Born	November 18, 1971 (age 53); Miami, Florida
Alma mater	Florida International
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1991–1992	Miami-Dade CC (men's asst.)
1992–1994	Miami Sunset HS (boys' asst.)
1994–1996	Barry (men's asst.)
1996–1999	Lourdes Academy
1999–2000	Barry
2000–present	South Florida
Head coaching record
Overall	462–306 (.602)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
	WNIT (2009); AAC Tournament (2021); 2x AAC regular season (2021, 2023);
Awards
	American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year (2018, 2021); United States Marine Corps/WBCA NCAA Division I National Coach of the Year Finalist (2021); Werner Ladder Naismith Women’s Coach of the Year Semifinalist (2021);

Jose Luis Fernandez (born November 18, 1971)^[1] is the head coach of the University of South Florida women's basketball team, starting in 2000.

Fernandez was officially named head coach on Nov. 14, 2000, just seven months after arriving at USF as an assistant coach. He has led the Bulls to eight trips to the NCAA Tournament and nine WNIT appearances, which includes the 2009 WNIT title and a semifinal appearance in 2014. The Bulls have also advanced to the American Athletic Conference (AAC) Tournament championship game in six of the past nine seasons and have made at least the semifinal round during every season in the AAC.

Named the 2018 and 2021 American Athletic Conference Coach of the Year,^[2] head coach Jose Fernandez has, during his 20-plus seasons, built the Bulls into a perennial Top 25 program. Under his guidance, USF has transformed from a program with only five winning seasons to a regular participant in the NCAA Tournament.

During the 2020–21 campaign, the Green and Gold made program history winning its first American Athletic Conference regular-season championship and followed that up with The American Tournament title in Fort Worth, Texas. During their tournament run, the Bulls defeated Wichita State, 48–44, Tulane, 51–47, and rival UCF, 64–54, the same Knights team that USF beat, 65–52, to win the regular-season crown on March 2 in the Yuengling Center.

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^ "Jose Fernandez - Women's Basketball Coach". USF Athletics. Retrieved 2022-04-12.

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[2] "Jose Fernandez - Women's Basketball Coach". USF Athletics. Retrieved 2022-04-12.

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