The Wings made that announcement and said the coach will be formally introduced Nov. 6.<\/p>\n
Fernandez takes over a Wings team that has Paige Bueckers<\/a>, the No. 1 overall draft pick last April who was the WNBA Rookie of the Year. The 53-year-old coach replaces Chris Koclanes, who was fired after going 10-34 in his only season with Dallas.<\/p>\n “Jose is one of the most respected veteran coaches in women’s basketball,” Wings general manager Curt Miller said in a statement. “He is a proven winner and has built sustained success for over two decades at USF. Jose consistently produces professional players and is regarded as an excellent developer of talent. … He is known for putting his players in position to succeed.”<\/p>\n Editor’s Picks Miller also talked about the preparation and grit of the teams Fernandez has coached and touted his successful recruiting of international players at a time when the WNBA continues to become more global.<\/p>\n “We will be relentless in our pursuit of excellence, approaching everything we do with elite standards and a championship mindset,” Fernandez said in a statement.<\/p>\n The Bulls made the NCAA tournament 10 times with Fernandez, and more than 100 of his players have played professionally worldwide. He led 12 20-win seasons and coached nine players drafted or signed by WNBA teams, including active players Courtney Williams<\/a> of the Minnesota Lynx<\/a> and Kitja Laksa of the Phoenix Mercury<\/a>.<\/p>\n Fernandez was also in talks to coach the Wings last year. He becomes the fifth coach in seven seasons for the Wings, who are 19-45 since winning a 2023 playoff series, which was the first for the franchise since it moved to the Dallas area from Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the 2016 season.<\/p>\n Miller was hired last year as the Wings GM and brought in Koclanes, who had been on Miller’s coaching staff at Connecticut from 2016-22 and helped the Sun reach the WNBA Finals in 2019 and 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 27, 2025, 12:39 PM ET ARLINGTON, Texas — Jose Fernandez was named the new coach of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-254912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/r1565418_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&w=130&h=130&scale=crop&location=center.jpeg\")
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