Corinne Schroeder

Corinne Schroeder grew up in Elm Creek, Manitoba, a small town that offers little geographic hint of the path that would take her to the biggest stages in women's hockey. On January 1, 2024, playing for PWHL New York in the league's inaugural game, she stopped 29 shots and recorded the first shutout in PWHL history — a debut that, by her own admission, came with nerves she had to actively manage from her crease.

Schroeder's path to that moment ran through two NCAA programs and one of the most decorated rookie seasons in PHF history. She began her college career at Boston University, where she earned Hockey East All-Rookie Team honors in 2017-18, Hockey East Third Team All-Star recognition in 2018-19, and won the 2019 Beanpot Tournament with the Terriers. She also earned National Goaltender of the Month honors in December 2018 and December 2019, and received Hockey East Second Team All-Star recognition in 2019-20. She then transferred to Quinnipiac, where she posted a 15-8-2 record with six shutouts in 2021-22, earning her a spot as a finalist for the NCAA Women's Goaltender of the Year Award. Her international career began earlier still: in 2017, she won a silver medal with Team Canada at the Under-18 IIHF World Championship.

Her first professional season with the Boston Pride in 2022-23 produced numbers that placed her atop the PHF statistical leaderboards. She led all goaltenders in the league that season with a 1.67 goals-against average and a .955 save percentage, 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 — a total that included three consecutive shutouts to open her rookie campaign, a league record. Selected 33rd overall by PWHL New York in the inaugural 2023 PWHL Draft, she carried that form directly into professional women's hockey's new era.

Schroeder made her senior national team debut with Team Canada during the 2023-24 Rivalry Series against the United States in November 2023. She appeared on Episode 251 of the InGoal Radio Podcast ^[1], discussing the mental side of goaltending in detail — a conversation that Kevin Woodley expanded on in a Pro Tips piece available to InGoal subscribers ^[2].

The mental focus techniques she described in that podcast appearance offer a window into how she approaches the job. On managing low-shot-count games, she said: "It's one I typically save for slow games, those ones where you get a handful of shots per period. You're just trying to stay in it. You're trying to stay warm. You're trying to stay engaged. When the puck spends a lot more time in the other zone, that's where you really got to make sure you're not wandering in your mind." Her method involves narrating the play from her crease — informal play-by-play — as a tool for staying present, alongside tracking which players and line combinations are on the ice at any given moment.

She discussed managing those nerves in her PWHL debut directly: "I think the biggest piece for me is just staying in the moment, finding some way to really be present and not focusing on the future, not focusing on the past." The 29-save shutout that resulted made it look straightforward, even if she acknowledged it was not.

In the 2024-25 PWHL season, playing for the Seattle Torrent, Schroeder led all goaltenders with four shutouts, bringing her PWHL career regular-season total to five and setting a PWHL record for most shutouts by a goaltender. She currently wears number 30 for the Seattle Torrent.

InGoal Magazine has covered Corinne Schroeder in one podcast appearance and one InGoal article.