Meet the Coaches
Chloe Cardinale
Varsity Coach
​Coach Cardinale is in her 4th year as the Varsity soccer coach at LASA. She has been coaching the girls' soccer team since the 2013-2014 season, and previously coached the swim team for nine years (2011-2020). She has taught at LASA since 2011, teaching Honors English II, Great Ideas, Contemporary Fiction, Hitchcock, and PALS throughout her time.
Alicia Salinas
JV Coach
Alicia Salinas is in her 4th year as JV girls' soccer coach at LASA . She graduated from the University of North Texas receiving her bachelor's degree in Social Work with a minor in Addiction Treatments and later received her Masters of Science in Social Work from the University of Texas graduate program. Throughout her clinical career, Salinas has enjoyed helping both students and adults reach their full potential both on and off the field with physical and mental health education. Salinas recognizes the physical toll and the psychological implications of stress and pressures that can come with years of an athletic career and hopes to one day shift her focus to providing therapeutic treatment to athletes in a collegiate setting.
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In her spare time Salinas likes to hang with her loved ones at home, box at her gym and hike, with her most recent conquest being Kilimanjaro this past Dec 2022.
Raunel Magana
JV Coach
Coach Magana started as the JVB girls' soccer coach in the 2022-23 season. He grew up in a small town in central Texas and graduated from UT Austin. Coach Magana is also a Mathematics teacher at LASA. He's excited to be a part of LASA soccer and help students improve in the classroom and outside.
He is a big Austin FC fan and in his spare time likes to play sports with friends.