- 3rd season as UNE Head Coach (2025-26); 23-26-4 after 2 seasons [Year-by-Year]
Cassandra Sherman was named as the third head coach in the history of UNE women's ice hockey in August 2023. In her first two collegiate head coaching campaigns, the Nor'easters qualified for the conference championship as the third seed and made the semifinals. The 13-13-1 overall ledger in 2024-25 was the program's first season at at least .500 since 2019-20.
Before UNE, Sherman was in Florida serving as coach of multiple teams within the Tampa Jr. Lightning club organization, and was the Co-Director of Youth Hockey at the Palm Beach Skate Zone prior to that.
No stranger to the Maine ice hockey scene, Sherman spent four seasons (2017-21) as assistant coach at her alma mater, the University of Southern Maine. The Huskies increased overall and New England Hockey Conference (NEHC) win totals during each full campaign, including a 12-13-2 mark (9-7-0 NEHC) in 2019-20 that ended in the semifinals of the league postseason championship. For two of those years, Sherman also worked with the Can/Am Hockey Group in Lake Placid as a coach for tournaments and camps.
In the year after graduating from USM (2016-17), she played professionally for Dusseldorf in Germany's top women's hockey league and helped the squad to the division title, totaling seven goals and nine assists over 13 contests. Sherman returned stateside in 2017-18 and played for the Boston Blades in the Canadian Women's Hockey League -- North America's top level, at the time.
As a four-year student-athlete at Southern Maine (2012-16), Sherman logged 104 consecutive games as a forward and scored 25 goals to go with 22 assists. She was a two-year captain for the Huskies, and had her best season as a senior when she tallied nine goals and 14 points.
The North Smithfield, R.I. native earned a bachelor's degree in recreation and leisure studies, and resides in Old Orchard Beach.
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