Justin Fuente: Difference between revisions

Fuente was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Justin married his wife Jenny in 2005 and they have three daughters.<ref>{{cite web | title=How pro wrestling shaped the life of Virginia Tech's Justin Fuente | url=httphttps://www.espn.com/blog/acc/post/_/id/91724/justin-fuentes-great-grandfather-was-a-wrestler-known-as-the-spanish-red-devil|last = Adelson|first=Andrea| date= March 16, 2016|publisher=ESPN|access-date=September 8, 2018}}</ref> Fuente and his family are Catholic.

[[Virginia Tech]] named Fuente its head coach on November 29, 2015, replacing the retiring [[Frank Beamer]]. In his first season in Blacksburg, Fuente led the Hokies to a 9–3 regular season record and a trip to the ACC Championship, representing the Coastal division.<ref>{{cite web |title=Virginia Tech officially names Justin Fuente head football coach. In his first season with the Hokies, he led the team to an ACC Coastal championship. |work=Hokiesports |date=November 29, 2015 |url=http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/20151129aaa.html }}</ref> Fuente won the 2016 [[Atlantic Coast Conference football honors#Coach of the Year|ACC Coach of the Year]] following the regular season. The Hokies defeated the [[2016 Arkansas Razorbacks football team|Arkansas]] Razorbacks 35–24 in the 2016 [[2016 Belk Bowl|Belk Bowl]], overturning a 24–0 deficit at halftime and winning three consecutive bowl games for the first time in the program's history. Virginia Tech finished the season ranked #16 in both the AP and Coaches Poll. On April 3, 2017, Fuente and Virginia Tech agreed to a contract extension through 2023.<ref>{{cite web|title=Virginia Tech's Justin Fuente agrees to extension through '23|url=httphttps://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/19070401/virginia-tech-coach-justin-fuente-agree-contract-extension|website=ESPN.com|date=April 3, 2017}}</ref> In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic college football season, Fuente's Hokies failed to qualify for a bowl, snapping the program's 29-year streak of bowl games, the longest such in the country at the time. Virginia Tech and Fuente agreed to mutually part ways with two games remaining in the 2021 season after bad losses to Boston College, Syracuse, Notre Dame, and Pittsburgh.<ref>{{Cite web |date=November 16, 2021 |title=Virginia Tech announces head football coaching change |url=https://hokiesports.com/news/2021/11/16/virginia-tech-football-announces-head-football-coaching-change.aspx |access-date=November 16, 2021 |website=Virginia Tech Athletics |language=en}}</ref>