Southern Wesleyan University

Southern Wesleyan Warriors Athletics
907 Wesleyan Drive Central, SC 29630

Division 2 South Carolina Southeast

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Josué Fernández

Josué Fernández joined Southern Wesleyan as the next Head Coach of the Men’s Soccer program in the spring of 2024.

Fernández joins the Warriors after serving as the assistant coach at Howard University in Washington, DC since joining the Bisons in 2022. During his time at Howard, Fernández worked with compiling and creating post-game film analysis and established an individual film session for each player to their enhance performance. He also traveled to multiple showcases both internationally and nationally to recruit players to join the Bisons Men’s Soccer program.

While working with the Bisons, Fernández also served Brit-Am Academy as both the Assistant Academy Director (2022) and the Academy Director (2023). At Brit-Am Academy, he oversaw the development of competitive U9-U18 teams in accordance with the club methodology and helped execute training sessions at each level. In his time there, Fernández was able to help refine the your-round technical and tactical curriculum for player development at each level of the program. He also served as the Head Coach for two of the U10 Academy teams and one of the U9 travel teams.

Prior to this time at Howard and Brit-Am Academy, he served as the assistant coach at Point University in Georgia. Under his guidance, the team went to their first AAC Conference Championship and National Tournament Appearance in 2021. The team posted a winning record of 11-6-2 during the season and the team posted seven clean sheets in the last twelve games of the season. As assistant coach he handled many of the defensive tactical coaching responsibilities and under his instruction the defense averaged 1.01 goals allowed during the season. At the conclusion of the season, he had players receive NAIA All-American and NAIA Golden Boot honors. Prior to the start of the season, he had worked on developing a game model handbooks that all of the team could use as a resource throughout the season.

Fernández attended Point University in college where he started and played for two years. During that time, he received back-to-back Academic All-Conference First Team honors. He graduated from Point in 2021 with a bachelor of science in exercise science. Upon completion of his bachelor degree, he gained his Masters in Football Tactical Analysis and his USSF D license.

A native of Heredia, Costa Rica, Fernández also competed with AD Juventud Escazucena, a D2 professional team based out of Costa Rica, where he made his senior debut on the first team.

He is married to Kari Fernández.

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Jon-Luke Rodriguez

Jon-Luke Rodriguez was announced as a member of the Warriors coaching staff in the fall of 2024 as the Men's Soccer Assistant Coach.

Jon-Luke Rodriguez has most recently served Sports Assistant and Wellness Coach for the YMCA in Powdersville, Pickens and Easley. While there he has assisted in coaching teams and adding strength and mobility training to the young athletes. Alongside of that, Rodriguez has worked with Tempo Sports Academy where he helped build the soccer program by providing both personal and group training sessions for multiple youth athletes.

Rodriguez graduated from Southern Wesleyan University in December of 2023 with a degree in Recreation and Sports Management with a focus in Administration. During his time with SWU, he competed on the Warriors’ Men’s Soccer team. Over his collegiate career, he started in 13 of the 32 games he played in and scored one goal in the process.

The Warriors will welcome Rodriguez back to Central, South Carolina for the fall season. Rodriguez resides in Seneca, SC with his wife Faith.