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Tom Sermanni - Head Coach

Tom Sermanni - AIS Football Head Coach

The Program’s Head Coach is Tom Sermanni who was appointed in 2005. Tom was previous national Women’s Head Coach from 1994-1997. Tom has an extensive background coaching both in Australia and overseas. Tom has coached various successful teams in the Men’s Australian Soccer League and Japanese J League and Women’s teams in the WUSA Women’s Professional Soccer League, which is renowned internationally as the strongest domestic league in the world. This is Tom's second time with the AIS, he was also the Mens AIS Soccer coach in the early 1990's.

Tom is supported by Assistant Coach Robert Hooker from ACTAS. Each of the NSO coaches assists Tom in the AIS camps from time to time.


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700 athlete scholarships are offered annually at the AIS.
263 current and former AIS athletes competed at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
142 Olympic medals have been won by athletes from the AIS since its establishment.
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