Kristen Campbell

Kristen Campbell made history in the 2018-19 NCAA playoffs by shutting out every opponent on the way to a national championship with the University of Wisconsin, and was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. She is the first woman to win a Frozen Four title without allowing a goal in the playoffs.

Campbell was born November 30, 1997, in Brandon, Manitoba. Her college path began at the University of North Dakota, where she appeared in five games during the 2016-17 season before the university abruptly shuttered its women's hockey program. She transferred to Wisconsin, where she made an immediate impression in 2017-18: WCHA Goaltender of the Year, an All-America selection, and a top-10 finish for the Patty Kazmaier Award. That championship season of 2018-19 saw her set school records for wins in a single season. In her final year at Wisconsin — a shortened campaign due to the COVID-19 pandemic — she backstopped the Badgers to the top of the WCHA standings in the regular season and became the fourth goaltender in program history to record 90 wins.

Internationally, Campbell has been a fixture for Canada across multiple levels. She was part of Canada's gold-medal team at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, and has earned three World Championship gold medals (2021, 2022, 2024) and a silver (2023). At the U18 level, she helped Canada claim silver at the 2015 World Championships. Before the PWHL's formation, Campbell spent two seasons with the PWHPA — including with Team Scotiabank in 2022-23, appearing in 11 games, winning five, and posting a .920 save percentage.

In the PWHL's inaugural season with Toronto, Campbell was named PWHL Goaltender of the Year. She signed with the Vancouver Goldeneyes ahead of the 2026-27 season and is on their training camp roster ^[1].

Campbell works closely with goalie coach Brad Kirkwood — a partnership that extends through both PWHL Toronto and Team Canada — and with osteopathic therapist and kinesiologist James Wendland out of Kelowna, B.C., where Campbell runs her KC Elite Goaltending Camp. InGoal has documented both relationships in depth. In a series of Pro Drills pieces, she and Kirkwood walked through crease movement fundamentals, puck-handling sequences, visualization work with eyes closed, and butterfly rotation and edge control ^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}. Campbell described what Kirkwood's emphasis on scanning has meant for her game: "When I started working with [Kirkwood] he would always yell at me for scans but in games I don't think you can ever scan too much. I think it's helped make the transition to game play seamless in the sense of always being aware what is coming at you." ^[2]

On puck handling, InGoal documented her approach at the NET360 Goalie Camp in 2023 — a piece that showed how she uses every available moment in practice to keep the puck moving, a habit Kirkwood has built into her game for both club and country ^[6].

InGoal has also featured Campbell alongside Wendland in two training articles ^{[7] [8]}, filmed at her KC Elite Goaltending Camp, covering hip alignment, balance, and gaze stability work that subscribers can explore in full. An earlier piece introduced Campbell as one of the athletes who adopted Wendland's foot and ankle routine, with Campbell noting that it unlocked rigidity she had long felt in her skate and made her lighter on her pushes ^[9].

InGoal Magazine has covered Kristen Campbell in two podcast appearances, four drill breakdowns, and seven InGoal articles.