The addition of freshman Brianna Laing this season has allowed Maschmeyer to give back to her team, offering the same support she received as a rookie.

“I’m trying to do the same thing for [Laing] because I have a year of experience now,” Maschmeyer said. “I’m trying to guide her through something whenever she has questions. She’s a very good goalie, too, so it’s a really good competition. And, again, a friendly competition, which helps us both get better.”

As a sophomore on a squad with only two seniors and seven freshman, Maschmeyer recognizes her place as one of the team’s “upperclassmen” leaders on the ice.

“I try to lead by example, through my actions,” said Maschmeyer, who leads the nation in save percentage at 96.4%. “We have a short roster this year. I want to be supportive to all of the freshmen and everyone else on the team. I [try to] take it one game at a time and give my team the opportunity to win every game. We can’t leave anything behind.”

Crowell acknowledges Maschmeyer’s tendency to churn out high performances without demanding the attention.

“She’s a quiet leader,” Crowell said. “It’s not like she’s a big talker in the locker room, but she goes about her business in a way that is consistent [and] reliable, and [she] always plays at an extremely high level. It’s something that we’ve come to depend on and she hasn’t let us down…She knows what she needs to do to be at the top of her game and she brings it every time she gets a chance to play.”

Despite her success thus far, Maschmeyer’s career is far from over. She looks to continue to break both personal and program-records.

“First, I want to win a national championship,” Maschmeyer said. “I want to beat my stats from last year and just have the best season that we can have. I have the long-term goal of breaking the number one shutout [record], set by Christina Kessler, who had 25 in her four years.”

—Staff writer Orlea L. Miller can be reached at omiller@college.harvard.edu.