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Aulani Fernandez - Aulani's brick-by-brick rebuilding job

Aulani Fernandez - Aulani's brick-by-brick rebuilding job

Chicago State University head coach AULANI FERNANDEZ explains to STEPH FAIRBAIRN how she is creating an inclusive, safe culture among a diverse roster

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Aulani Fernandez is currently the interim head women’s soccer coach at Chicago State University.


It is a role that Fernandez - part of the 2021-22 United Soccer Coaches’ 30 Under 30 Program - didn’t see coming so soon. But she has grasped it with both hands. 


At Chicago, she is rebuilding the program from the ground up, with a culture of "inclusiveness, love, support, vulnerability and safety" at its core.


SCW caught up with Aulani to talk about why those principles are so important to her, how she goes about embedding them, and what it is to be a young, female coach in the world of soccer…

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