Corinne Schroeder

Corinne Schroeder grew up on a grain and egg farm a few miles outside of Elm Creek, Manitoba, learned to skate at three, and started playing hockey at four. She did not commit to goaltending full time until around age eleven or twelve, when she showed up to a spring hockey tryout in Winnipeg — the team had no goalie — and did not allow a single goal in practice. She was on the team immediately.

That late-ish start as a full-time goaltender came after time as a defenseman and then a forward. Schroeder played as a centerman, occasionally trading off with a backup so both players saw ice time, until she was roughly fourteen. She has credited that experience with developing her skating.

Schroeder played her first two collegiate seasons at Boston University, earning Hockey East All-Rookie Team honours in 2017–18, Hockey East Third Team All-Star in 2018–19, and a Beanpot Tournament title with the Terriers in 2019. She earned Hockey East Second Team All-Star recognition in 2019–20 before transferring to Quinnipiac. In her final NCAA season with the Bobcats, she posted a 15–8–2 record with six shutouts and was a finalist for the NCAA Women's Goaltender of the Year Award. On the international stage, she won a silver medal with Team Canada at the 2017 Under-18 IIHF World Championship.

Her professional debut came with the Boston Pride in the PHF, where she won both Goaltender of the Year and Rookie of the Year honours in 2022–23 and finished second on the NWHL/PHF all-time leaderboard for career shutouts with seven. She was selected 33rd overall by PWHL New York in the inaugural 2023 PWHL Draft and made history in the league's opening game on January 1, 2024, recording the first shutout in PWHL history. She was nominated for the 2024 PWHL Goaltender of the Year award. In the 2024–25 season she led all goaltenders with four shutouts, setting a PWHL record for most career regular-season shutouts by a goaltender. She also made her senior national team debut with Team Canada during the 2023–24 Rivalry Series against the United States. Schroeder currently plays for PWHL San Jose.

Off the ice, Schroeder holds three degrees earned during her college career: a bachelor's in psychology, a bachelor's in health science, and an MBA.

InGoal Magazine has covered Corinne Schroeder in one podcast appearance and one InGoal article. On Episode 251 of the InGoal Radio Podcast, recorded during her first PWHL season with New York, Schroeder spoke at length about managing nerves, staying present during low-shot games, her upbringing in rural Manitoba, and how she describes her own approach to the position ^[1]. A follow-up piece by Kevin Woodley digs into her specific mental strategies for maintaining focus — including the play-by-play technique she uses when the puck is at the other end — and is available to InGoal subscribers ^[2].

On the podcast, Schroeder described herself as "more of a hybrid style goaltender," explaining that at 5'11" she does not simply drop to her pads on every shot. "I like to read what's happening," she said. "If I have that sight line, I'm going to make the best read off of the puck rather than always know that I'm gonna hit my pads." ^[1] She also spoke about the value of her working relationship with goalie coach Gord Woodhall — a fellow Manitoban she has known since she was sixteen or seventeen — describing it as "a really good two-way relationship" built on conversation rather than prescription. ^[1]