{"id":239631,"date":"2025-10-25T17:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239631\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:17:22","slug":"wings-set-to-hire-fernandez-as-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/239631\/","title":{"rendered":"Wings set to hire Fernandez as coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Fernandez was in discussion with the Dallas Wings about their vacant head coaching job last year, but was ultimately passed over.<\/p>\n<p>This year, he got the call.<\/p>\n<p>The Wings are planning to make Fernandez their next coach, according to SB Nation on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old Fernandez spent the last 25 years at the University of South\u00a0Florida as coach of the women&#8217;s team, leading the Bulls to 10 NCAA Tournament appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas considered hiring Fernandez last year, but went with Chris Koclanes instead. Koclanes was fired after going 10-34 in one season.<\/p>\n<p>Fernandez becomes the fifth Wings coach in the last seven seasons, and takes over a team that returns 2025 WNBA Rookie of the Year winner\u00a0Paige Buckers.<\/p>\n<p>While Fernandez and the Wings are still finalising his contract, South Florida has announced that Fernandez is leaving the program to coach in the WNBA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While this is a bittersweet moment for our program, it is a well-deserved opportunity for Jose to realise a professional dream, and we are incredibly proud of him,&#8221;\u00a0USF athletics CEO Rob Higgins said in a statement\/<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dallas Wings expected to hire longtime college coach to lead Paige Bueckers and co. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/57Q7qJXPaD\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/57Q7qJXPaD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SB Nation (@SBNation) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBNation\/status\/1981429888046551417?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 23, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose Fernandez was in discussion with the Dallas Wings about their vacant head coaching job last year, but&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,715,457,82,91993,91992,630],"class_list":{"0":"post-239631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-social","11":"tag-sport","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sporty","14":"tag-sportytv","15":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}