QU goalie Schroeder credited with goal

Corinne Schroeder’s Quinnipiac winning debut in goal on Saturday at Frank Perrotti Jr. Arena featured 27 saves, one goal against in 60 minutes and a “1” in another category most goalies never fill.

In fact, from all appearances, Schroeder is the first goalie in NCAA women’s hockey to get credit for a goal.

“I didn’t really know until they put my picture up on the screen there,” said Schroeder, a graduate student from Manitoba. “I was just getting ready for the penalty kill that was coming. It was a nice surprise.”

With a penalty coming to Quinnipiac’s Ann-Frederik Naud, Schroeder made a bad-angle save. Maine’s Maddie Giordano carried the puck behind the net a few seconds later and was trying to feed the puck to Kennedy Little in the right circle, but Quinnipiac’s Maya Labad tied up Little’s stick just enough to let the puck get through and past the vacated right point.

The puck trickled all the way down the ice and in before Nicole Pateman could catch up. Maybe it wasn’t the goalie’s dream of shooting the puck into an empty net herself, but as the last Bobcat to touch the puck, Schroeder received credit.

Schroeder played all positions growing up but moved pretty much fulltime into the net around 12; she’d still play out of the net at times and figures her last goal came when she was 13 or 14.

Schroeder said had to focus back in after she realized the goal, with 13:18 left, was hers. But she closed out a solid 5-1 win for Quinnipi

ac to finish a two-game opening-weekend sweep over the Black Bears.

The response has been positive, Schroeder said, complete with the requisite teases about how many teammates she has outscored in two games.

“Obviously my teammates have been really supportive and really excited for me. I’ve gotten a lot of texts and phone calls from past teammates or past coaches,” Schroeder said. “It’s been really nice to connect with people again that I haven’t seen in a while. It’s good to see that they’re still following along.”

Funny enough, Schroeder had come close to having this happen once before, a near-mirror image. Playing for Boston University in February 2020, Schroeder made a save, and New Hampshire almost sent the puck all the way back into its own net. A defender made it back in time to deny her a curious spot in history for 19 months.

The most recent NCAA record book lists 10 Division I men’s goalies who’ve received credit for a goal, a list that includes Hamden’s Jon Quick in 2007 for UMass and Quinnipiac’s Michael Garteig in 2013. Four of the 10 shot the puck themselves. Another college goalie got credit for a goal in an exhibition against a Swedish team.

The 2-0 Bobcats entered the US College Hockey Online top-10 poll at No. 10 on Tuesday. They are tops among those also receiving votes in the USA Today/ USA Hockey top 10.

Schroeder, pursuing an MBA in hopes of helping her open her own physical therapy practice down the road, said getting into the group in Hamden has been easy.

“We’re very cohesive already,” Schroeder said. “It hasn’t taken us much time to really get together and bond as a team. And yeah, it’s been really good, integrating into school and stuff too. I’ve always had the support I needed to figure figure things out here.”