Staff Directory

Lucas Costa

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
Alma Mater:
Western Texas College '18 / Shorter '20 / Shippensburg '23
Experience:
3rd Season

Lucas Costa enters his third season as the UAB women’s soccer assistant coach in the 2026 season.

In 2025, Costa guided the Blazers to a 7-6-6 overall record and a 4-3-3 conference record. UAB finished fourth in the American Conference standings, the highest the Blazers have been since being in the American. He also mainly worked with the UAB’s goalkeepers.

During the 2025 season he helped guide eight players to several conference honors. Lailah Stewart was named to the All-Conference First Team and earned a weekly Honorable Mention. Avery Berryman was named to the All-Conference Second Team while Ava Mills collected All-Conference Third Team, Defensive Player of the Week and Honorable Mention. Abbey Burns earned Offensive Player of the Week and Abby Graeser, Leah Parsons, Caitlin Keeling and Lauren Lucero all earned Honorable Mention.

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.

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 devised position-specific practice plans for attacking players and scouting. He also held individuals training sessions for players.

Costa played two seasons at Shorter University where he appeared in 25 matches as a defender and made 19 starts for the Hawks. In his final semester, he served as a volunteer coach and completed an internship with the sports information office. Costa also spent one season as a starter at Middle Georgia State and one season at Wester Texas College.

A native of Distrito Federal, Brazil, Costa played for some of the top youth teams in the capital city of Brazil.

Costa received a bachelor’s degree from Shorter in May 2020 and an associate degree from Western Texas College in May 2018. He earned his MBA from Shippensburg in May of 2023.