Emerance Maschmeyer

Emerance Maschmeyer grew up in Bruderheim, Alberta — a small town outside Edmonton — and by the time she was eighteen she had already made her mark on the international stage, posting a shutout in the gold medal game at the 2012 IIHF U-18 Women's World Championship. That result was the first chapter of a long history with Canada's national program.

At Harvard University, where she played from 2012 to 2016, Maschmeyer built one of the more complete résumés in Ivy League goaltending history. She became the first goalie to win Ivy League Rookie of the Year in over fifteen years after her freshman season, going 12-6-2 with a 1.44 goals-against average and a .935 save percentage. Her sophomore year brought a Second Team All-American selection, a Co-Ivy League Player of the Year award, and a spot among the top ten finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Award, with a 16-6-4 record, a 1.75 GAA and a .943 save percentage. As a junior she was a Patty Kazmaier Award nominee, earned a spot on the All-Ivy League First Team and the ECAC All-Academic Team, and posted an 18-5-3 record with a 1.48 GAA and a .943 save percentage. By her senior season she had become Harvard's all-time career saves leader, finishing with 2,538 saves.

After college, Maschmeyer spent three seasons in the CWHL, appearing in eight games with the Calgary Inferno and forty-three with the Montréal Canadiennes. From 2019 to 2023 she played with the PWHPA before the formation of the PWHL. At the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing — played under pandemic restrictions that kept family and friends out of the stands — she appeared in two games and won gold with Canada. She has represented Canada at seven IIHF Women's World Championships (2016, 2017, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024), collecting three gold, three silver, and one bronze medal across those tournaments.

Maschmeyer now wears number 38 for the Vancouver Goldeneyes. She previously played for the Ottawa Charge before being traded to Vancouver — a move she described in detail on the InGoal Radio podcast ^[1], recounting the mix of emotions that came with it and what the relocation meant for her family. Her wife, Geneviève Lacasse, is a former professional goaltender, and the couple have a son together. On ^[1], Maschmeyer spoke openly about how parenthood shifted her perspective on the game: "He doesn't care if we won or lost or how I played. He's just so excited to see me, and so it definitely puts everything in perspective."

The 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics — her second Games, and the first she attended with family in the stands — prompted a wide-ranging conversation with InGoal's Kevin Woodley ^[1] that covered her preparation routines, the mental side of playing behind a dominant team, and the words she keeps written on her blocker. She described those words — "battle," "big," "calm," and "never give up" — as anchors during chaotic moments in a game, a practice she said she developed in the lead-up to the 2026 Games after having been cut from the 2018 Olympic roster.

Maschmeyer spoke with InGoal for the first time on episode 246 of InGoal Radio ^[2], a conversation that preceded her second Olympic cycle. InGoal Magazine has covered Emerance Maschmeyer in two podcast appearances.

The threads that run through both conversations — her pregame planning, her approach to staying sharp in low-shot games, her view of goalie partnerships with teammates like Shannon Szabados and Kimberly Newell in Ottawa and Ann-Renée Desbiens and Kaley Doyle with the national team — are available in full at ^[1] and ^[2].