Corinne Schroeder

When the PWHL opened its inaugural game on January 1, 2024, Corinne Schroeder was in net for New York — and she made 29 saves to record the first shutout in the league's history. Growing up on a grain and egg farm just outside of Elm Creek, Manitoba, roughly 50 kilometres southwest of Winnipeg, she had learned to skate at three and started playing hockey at four. The path to that historic moment wound through every position on the ice, two NCAA programs, a record-setting PHF rookie season, and a senior national team debut.

Schroeder played her early college hockey at Boston University, earning Hockey East All-Rookie Team recognition in 2017-18, Hockey East Third Team All-Star honors in 2018-19, and Hockey East Second Team All-Star honors in 2019-20. She won the Beanpot Tournament with the Terriers in 2019 and earned National Goaltender of the Month awards in December 2018 and December 2019. Before all of that, she had already represented Canada internationally, winning a silver medal with Team Canada at the 2017 Under-18 IIHF World Championship.

After transferring to Quinnipiac, Schroeder put together a 2021-22 season that made her a finalist for the NCAA Women's Goaltender of the Year Award, posting a 15-8-2 record with six shutouts for the Bobcats. Her professional debut with the Boston Pride in the PHF's 2022-23 season was equally striking: she led all goaltenders in goals-against average (1.67) and save percentage (.955), won both PHF Goaltender of the Year and Rookie of the Year, and finished second on the NWHL/PHF all-time leaderboard for career shutouts with seven. Among those seven were three consecutive shutouts to open her rookie campaign, a PHF record.

Selected 33rd overall by PWHL New York in the inaugural 2023 PWHL Draft, she then made her senior debut with Team Canada during the 2023-24 Rivalry Series against the United States in November 2023 — a series she mentioned on the InGoal Radio podcast as one of the situations where she most relies on her mental engagement strategies ^[1]. She then stepped into the PWHL's first-ever game and shut out Toronto, finishing her inaugural PWHL season with a .930 save percentage and a nomination for the 2024 PWHL Goaltender of the Year award. In the 2024-25 season, she led all PWHL goaltenders with four shutouts, bringing her career regular-season total to five and setting a PWHL record for most shutouts by a goaltender.

On episode 251 of the InGoal Radio Podcast, Schroeder discussed the nerves she felt heading into that opening PWHL game, her approach to staying present during slow periods, and the technical foundations of how she reads shot releases ^[1]. She also described her goalie coach, Gord Woodhall — a fellow Manitoban she had known since around age 16 — as someone "very thoughtful in everything that he coaches" who focuses on "not necessarily changing your style, but allowing you to build upon it." On the topic of her own approach between the pipes, Schroeder described herself as "more of a hybrid style goaltender," one who tries to read each play rather than defaulting to a set response.

Kevin Woodley's Pro Tips piece drew directly from that conversation to examine one of Schroeder's more distinctive habits: narrating the game to herself from her crease during stretches when the puck stays in the opposing zone ^[2]. The full episode and that InGoal article are available to readers now. InGoal Magazine has covered Corinne Schroeder in one podcast appearance and one InGoal article.

Off the ice, Schroeder completed three degrees during her college years — a bachelor's in psychology, a bachelor's in health science, and an MBA. She now wears number 30 for the Seattle Torrent.