University of Alabama - Huntsville

University of Alabama Huntsville Athletics
205 Spragins Hall Huntsville, AL 35899

Division 2 Alabama Southeast

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Akasha Kasper

Akasha Kasper was named the second head coach in the UAH women's lacrosse program's history on Aug. 25, 2021 as she enters her fourth season at the helm of the Chargers.

Overall in her time in the Rocket City, Kasper has guided four CSC Academic All-Americans, four IWLCA All-South Region honorees, one GSC Player of the Year, two GSC Defensive Player of the Year, 13 All-GSC awardees and six GSC All-Academic performers. Kasper additionally guided the program to its third GSC Championship in 2022.

A current member of the IWLCA Division II Board of Directors and a native of Greensboro, North Carolina, Kasper comes to the Rocket City after two seasons as head coach of the Charleston women’s lacrosse team. This past season, Kasper guided the Golden Eagles to the Mount East Conference tournament semifinals while coaching four All-MEC honorees in the 2021 campaign.

Prior to UC, Kasper spent three seasons as an assistant with regional powerhouse Limestone, where she helped guide the Saints to a pair of regular season and tournament championships in the Conference Carolinas along with an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018. In her time at Limestone, she coached five IWLCA All-Americans, eight IWLCA All-Region athletes and 16 All-Conference Carolina performers.

Kasper has also served as head coach at William Peace in 2016 and 2017 in addition to assisting the Catawba program in 2015 and 2016.

As a student-athlete, Kasper was a member of the Queens women’s lacrosse program from 2011-14, starting in 71 career games. She garnered all-conference three times in her career, while leading Queens to its first-ever South Atlantic Conference Championship as team captain in 2014.

Kasper graduated Magna Cum Laude from Queens in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in new media design with a concentration in media communications.

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Nathan Hendel

Nathan Hendel joined the UAH women's lacrosse program as assistant coach ahead of the 2025 season.

A veteran coach at the youth and collegiate level, Hendel arrived in Huntsville after serving as the head girls varsity lacrosse coach at Oak Ridge High School in El Dorado, California, for nearly a decade, heading the Trojans program from 2014 to 2023.

After graduating from California State - Chico in the Spring of 2004, Hendel became the head women’s lacrosse coach for CSU - Chico in the Fall of 2004 where he was head coach until 2008.

A world traveler that has visited over 30 countries, Hendel has had a long tenure as an educator in the state of California since 2012, while also assisting women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse programs throughout his career.

He is a US Lacrosse Certified Coach and a part of the US Lacrosse Positive Coaching Alliance as well as a US Lacrosse Certified Umpire.