Cassandra Sherman

Biography

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. 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. 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 s

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