Lucas Costa

Biography

Lucas Costa enters his second season as the UAB women’s soccer assistant coach in the 2025 season. For Costa’s first season with the Blazers, he helped guide them to a 7-5-5 overall record and a 4-2-4 conference record. Costa guided the team to go undefeated at home for the first time in program history. He also mainly worked with UAB’s goalkeepers. This past season he helped four players to earn several conference honors. Abbey Burns was selected to the AAC All-Conference First Team, earned AAC Offensive Player of the Week, and Honorable Mention. Freshman Louise Larson was named to the AAC All-Freshman Team, while Jette Zimmer earned a spot on the AAC All-Conference Second Team and claimed an Honorable Mention. Anika Toth claimed Goalkeeper of the Week and Honorable Mention twice. Costa helped lead Toth to play professionally with Halifax Tides FC after she graduated from UAB. Before joining the Blazers, Costa spent the 2023 season at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi as an assistant coach. He helped develop Zoe Theriot into a starting goalkeeper with a .809 save percentage. Prior to Costa’s time with the Islanders, he spent two seasons as a graduate assistant at Shippensburg University. Before taking the job at Shippensburg, Costa served as an assistant with the Tupelo Futbol Club where he coached U15 girls and U14 boys while working under head coach Jorge Alvarez. He was an integral practice instructor who trained defenders and goalkeepers. Also with the Tupelo Futbol Club, Costa d