Coaching Staff
Head Coach – Todd Hassett
Coach Hassett is a native of Montgomery County, Maryland. He grew up playing hockey in Silver Spring, Maryland. After attending the University of Maryland, he began his youth hockey coaching career as an assistant coach for several Montgomery Youth Hockey Association (MYHA) travel teams in several age groups: U-12, U-14, U-16, and U-18. For the past six years, Coach Hassett has been a coach for one of the MYHA AA level youth travel teams. Coach Todd as he prefers to be called took over as the co-head coach for the Upper Montgomery Lightning High School hockey program during the abbreviated 2020-2021 COVID pandemic impacted season. He is a level 5 USA Hockey certified hockey coach with over 14-years of youth hockey coaching experience. As the founder of Premier Hockey, Coach Todd runs off-season hockey boot camps that focus on off-ice conditioning for youth hockey student athletes coupled with on-ice skills development. Coach Todd’s philosophy is building individual skills development and improving team play as core concepts that he teaches the Upper Montgomery student athletes. Coach Todd wants the student athletes to have fun, enjoy playing the great game of hockey, focus on the fundamentals, and to experience the excitement of high school hockey! Coach Hassett lives in Germantown, Maryland with his wife and two college aged sons.
Hockey Operations
Director of Hockey Operations and Assistant Coach – Chuck Levine
Chuck was born in Madison, Wisconsin, although he considers himself native to Montgomery County, Maryland as his family moved to the area when he was a young child. Chuck is entering his third season working with the coaching staff and his sixth as the Upper Montgomery Lightning’s team administrator. Chuck is involved with many of the off-ice administrative activities that are involved with running a high school ice hockey program. A self-described hockey fanatic, Chuck enjoys working with youth hockey teams and contributing to the team’s success. When not at a hockey rink he enjoys reading, exercising, and community service. Chuck lives in Clarksburg, Maryland with his wife and two college aged sons.