Casey Handrahan

Biography

A veteran of the hockey ranks with head coaching and professional playing experience, Casey Handrahan enters his thirteenth season as an assistant coach at UConn in 2025-26, and his fifth season as the Associate Head Coach. Handrahan oversees the goaltenders, defense, power play, recruiting, and video analysis. Under the guidance of Handrahan, UConn has sent over 25 players on to play professional hockey around the world since arriving in Storrs in 2013. Handrahan was recognized by the American Hockey Coaches Association in 2025 with the Assistant Women's Coach Award. The award honors an assistant coach's career body of work. In the 2024-25 season, Handrahan helped lead the Huskies to back to back Hockey East Regular Season Championships. Handrahan coached a program record five Huskies to All-Hockey East honors. For the second consecutive season, Handrahan coached goaltenders Tia Chan and Megan Warrener to the National Goalie of the Year Watch List, and guided Chan to her first Hockey East Goaltender of the Year award. Chan became the third goaltender under Handrahan to win Hockey East Goaltender of the Year honors. In the 2023-24 season, Handrahan helped lead the Huskies to a record breaking season recording 25 wins, the most in program history and taking home the Hockey East Regular Season and Conference Championship for the first time, earning their first ever NCAA tournament bid. The Huskies finished the season number nine in the national polls. Handrahan coached three Hu