Breaking Down the Details of Corinne Schroeder’s First Mask With the Torrent
By Charles Hamaker
Seattle, WA - A new team and new opportunity for veteran goaltender Corinne Schroeder means a new setup, and that goaltender gear in Seattle Torrent theme has been incomplete for a little over a month to begin the 2025-26 PWHL season. Finally, after numerous delays and overnight shipping, Schroeder has her new mask that she’ll debut tonight when she faces her former team in the New York Sirens. The mask has a similar primary element to her New York look, but notable changes to better compliment her new city and team here in the Pacific Northwest. Schroeder spoke about the mask ahead of Wednesday’s game.
Seattle Torrent goaltender Corinne Schroeder wearing her new mask for the second consecutive practice on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at the Kraken Community Iceplex. (Photos by Nick Lyons for Circling Seattle Sports)
Schroeder’s new look maintains a consistent element of all her helmets, the brick work seen on the chin area where her number 30 is also boldly displayed. Besides a strip of solid color similar to a mohawk on the top and the brickwork, prominently seen early into Torrent training camp when she still had to wear her Sirens mask as this Seattle one was in transit, Corinne had more than a few ideas for elements that she wanted with this new design.
A few iterations were shared between Schroeder and artist Franny Drummond, a Graduate of The International Fine Arts College in Miami, Florida, tweaking different elements before the final result you see now. Drummond, who is based out of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, got his start in Airbrush design at Slater Surfboards back in 1994-1996. His work isn’t purely hockey related, as his designs have been worn by Navy football through the years. Back in the hockey realm, some of the netminders he’s worked with include Jacob Markström, Dan Vladar, Samuel Ersson, Kayle Osborne, and Abbey Levy amongst others. Schroeder shared that she’s comfortable with Drummond and the work that he does, having worked with him for her Sirens mask, while she also doesn’t know any other artists on the West Coast.
Schroeder shares that she prefers to have some more control in the design process and not just accept any sort of design, providing plenty of feedback on ideas that she may have or any additions that she may want while also encouraging the artists that she works with to provide ideas if they have any. Typically, though, Corinne has a set idea of what she wants and they’ll go from there.
“I just sent in my thoughts of how I wanted it to look, and the different aspects of what I wanted to always have, right, like the bricks. They’re always on my helmets, and kind of this Mohawk strip as well. Putting that together and then going through a couple different renderings of like, okay, add this, no, take that out... Lot of little tweaking, but it came together and looks really nice.”
Seattle Torrent goaltender Corinne Schroeder during the teams inaugural home opener, as they welcomed the Minnesota Frost to town on Friday, November 28th, 2025 at Climate Pledge Arena. (Photos by Liz Wolter for Circling Seattle Sports)
The Torrent branding coming out when it did presented problems generally, including the design process for this mask. The process for this look was a bit more condensed than how things normally would go, as well as a little more time sensitive, creating some trouble for all parties involved and that’s ultimately why Schroeder went the first two games of the season with the white bucket.
“Not having the logo revealed really delayed things. It’s hard to keep everything under wraps. A little bit more condensed and a little more time sensitive for the artists, putting together the design and then painting. That was a little bit quick on their end.”
Getting into the details of the mask, Schroeder’s new look helmet features a ton of Pacific Northwest imagery that includes Mount Rainier, the Space Needle and Seattle skyline, trees, rushing water and waves, a Salmon leaping out of those waves on her left hand side, along with the Torrent logo. It also has her classic bricks, keeping in line with every mask she’s worn since her first college season. The bricks in this version replicate a seawall holding back waves. The nature of the Pacific Northwest was the top priority for Corinne with this design, emphasizing the desire to have Mount Rainier visible and keeping the nature heavily involved.
The backplate of the mask features a few personal elements to Schroeder. The main imagery on the backplate, which serves as a background to the two other mentions, features a mountain and lake that has a bit of reflection to further the Pacific Northwest nature that she mentioned as critical to what she wanted included. The first of two personal notes is the initials “TR” with a 24 in front of them for Travis Roy, a former hockey player turned author and philanthropist who attended Boston university just like Schroeder did. During his first shift with the BU hockey team, Roy was left paralyzed from the neck down. Rather than be deterred by the moment or let it define him, Roy had a strong desire to lead a fulfilling meaningful life by helping others who suffered similar injuries, which spawned the Travis Roy Foundation in 1996. The foundation has helped to raise more than $5 million in grants toward spinal cord research and has helped more than 2,100 quadriplegics and paraplegics.
“I have always had the Travis Roy #24, I went to BU. The Travis Roy Foundation is a big piece of what I want to support.”
The other side of the backplate features the letters “T.V.” and a quote that reads “Tim’s heart beats on.” That element is for a coach that Schroeder had growing up, who she cites as very influential in her career. The, named Tim, passed away from a stroke and donated his heart, leading to the quote seen on the backplate. Schroeder continues to carry the legacy of Travis and Tim with her on every mask.
Seattle Torrent goaltender Corinne Schroeder wearing her new mask for the second consecutive practice on Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at the Kraken Community Iceplex. (Photos by Nick Lyons for Circling Seattle Sports)
Unlike padding and gloves, there’s no need for Schroeder to break in her new mask ahead of its debut tonight against the Sirens. Corinne uses the Pros Choice Custom helmet, which is molded to her face and fits perfectly. The only adjustments needed to be made are on the straps, and that takes no longer than a minute.
Schroeder is the first goalie in the Torrent trio to receive her mask, as veteran netminder Carly “CJ” Jackson and rookie Hannah Murphy remain without theirs.
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