Bucaramanga, Colombia. – June 23, 2024 – College of South Florida’s ladies’s basketball Head Coach Jose Fernandez and USA Basketball’s Ladies’s U18 Nationwide Crew captured gold by defeating Canada, 80-69, within the last of the 2024 FIBA U18 Ladies’s Americup on Sunday evening.
“It first begins with a possibility to work with unimaginable individuals like Teri (Moren) and Niele (Ivey),” mentioned head coach Fernandez. “You spend a lot time making an attempt to attain a gold medal and it has been a beautiful expertise. With the ability to work with this elite group of gamers and coaches, they usually have been an incredible group to educate. That is one thing that I’ll bear in mind without end.”
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— USF Ladies’s Basketball (@USFWBB) June 24, 2024
Within the occasion, the 2024 USA Ladies’s U18 Nationwide Crew was led by Teri Moren (Indiana College), whereas Niele Ivey (College of Notre Dame) and Fernandez served as assistant coaches.
JOSE FERNANDEZ CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS
- 2023-24 WBCA Vice President / President-Elect.
- Gained a Gold Medal with USA Basketball’s Ladies’s U18 Nationwide Crew within the 2024 U18 FIBA AmeriCup.
- Chosen as an assistant coach on the 2024 USA Basketball Ladies’s U18 Nationwide Crew.
- Recorded his 450th profession victory throughout the 2023-24 season.
- Two-time American Athletic Convention Coach of the 12 months (2018, 2021).
- 9 NCAA Event appearances (eight prior to now 12 seasons).
- 13 straight 19-win seasons and 11 20-win seasons.
- Has 19 wins in opposition to high 25-ranked groups, together with No. 6 Mississippi State in 2020, No. 7 Stanford (2021 defending nationwide champion), and No. 22 Texas and No. 17 Arkansas in 2022.
- USF’s 2022-23 squad captured the AAC regular-season title.
- USF’s 2020-21 crew gained the AAC regular-season title and the convention match championship.
- Inducted into the Sports activities Membership of Tampa Bay’s Corridor of Fame on June 8, 2022.
- South Florida gained the 2008-09 WNIT Championship, defeating the Kansas Jayhawks.
- Has 20 former Bulls taking part in professionally worldwide.
- Recruited and coached gamers from 22 completely different international locations.
- Recruited and coached over 38 all-conference gamers, two Related Press honorable point out All-People, three members of the USF Athletics Corridor of Fame, two AAC Gamers of the 12 months, two AAC Newcomers of the 12 months, 4 AAC Freshmen of the 12 months, and 7 WNBA draft picks.
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South Florida ladies’s basketball has made 18 postseason match appearances and had 9 NCAA Event berths in head coach Jose Fernandez‘s 24 seasons. The all-time winningest coach in program historical past, Fernandez has guided the Bulls to 11 20-win seasons, two WNIT last 4 appearances, the 2008-09 WNIT championship, has gained over 450 profession video games and is the all-time wins chief within the American Athletic Convention.
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