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Allison Coomey

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Head Coach
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Allison Coomey (KOO-me) was named the University of Delaware ice hockey team’s first head coach on March 26, 2024, ahead of the program’s inaugural season in 2025-26. Coomey brings more than two decades of women's ice hockey coaching experience at the collegiate and international levels.

In Delaware’s first season, the Fightin’ Blue Hens saw continuous growth throughout the year. With a roster featuring 17 freshmen, the most in the country, the program recorded its first-ever victory with a 2-1 win over Holy Cross on October 5, 2025. It was also Coomey’s first win as a head coach. UD had 11 games decided by two goals or less, and went to overtime four times, including in the AHA Championship First Round. Delaware was the least-penalized team in the conference and Kaitlin Finnegan was the recipient of the AHA Individual Sportsmanship Award.

Over the course of her career, Coomey has coached four student-athletes to the Olympics, eight to national teams, four All-Americans, 15 major conference award winners, and 47 all-conference selections over her time at Penn State and Boston University.

Prior to her arrival in Newark, Coomey spent seven seasons at Penn State where she served as an assistant coach for three seasons before being promoted to associate head coach in 2020-21. Coomey and the Nittany Lions captured consecutive College Hockey America (CHA) tournament titles in 2023 and 2024, earning a bid to the NCAA Tournament. The team also claimed the CHA regular season title in three of her final four seasons in Happy Valley.

Primarily responsible for coaching defense, Coomey's leadership turned the Nittany Lions into one of the best defensive units in the country by allowing just 1.88 goals per game over the past five seasons dating back to 2019-20.

Selected for various international coaching roles with USA Hockey, Coomey was on staff with the silver-medal winning USA National Team at the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games as a team scout and extension of the coaching staff. Coomey also served as the head coach for the U23 US Women's National Team in 2021 and 2022.

Coomey also spent time as an assistant coach for the USA senior national team during the 2021 IIHF World Championship. She was also a member of USA Hockey's scouting staff at the 2019 IIHF U18 Women's World Championship.

At the 2019 America Hockey Coaches Association Convention, Coomey received the AHCA Women's Hockey Assistant Coach of the Year award for her outstanding career resume.

Prior to Penn State, Coomey spent nine seasons at Boston University where she helped the Terriers qualify for the NCAA Tournament six times, including a pair of NCAA Championship appearances in 2011 and 2013. While at BU, Coomey coached four Olympians who combined to win six gold medals for the Canadian National Team at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

A four-year letterwinner at Niagara, Coomey returned to her alma mater as an assistant coach from 2004-08, helping the Purple Eagles reach the CHA title game twice.

Before Niagara, Coomey served as an assistant coach at Plattsburgh in 2003-04 where she helped guide the Cardinals to the 2004 Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference (ECAC) West Division III regular-season title and the NCAA Division III semifinals.
Coomey broke into the coaching ranks during the 2002-23 season as an assistant coach at Connecticut College.

The Baldwinsville, New York, native earned two degrees from Niagara, a bachelor's degree in education in 2002 and a master's degree in school counseling in 2008. She was a two-time ECAC All-Academic Team member and earned a spot on the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference All-Academic Team.

Coomey was a two-sport letterwinner at Niagara, playing ice hockey and lacrosse from 1998-2002. On the ice, she served as an alternate captain during her senior season and helped the team to its most successful campaign in program history. The Purple Eagles reached the 2002 NCAA Women's Frozen Four and finished tied for third in the final national poll. On the lacrosse field, she earned the team's rookie of the year award.