Elm Creek's Corrine Schroeder has had a busy summer of hockey camps and developing her skills.

The grade 12 goaltender took part in the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Women's High Performance Camp in Vierumaki, Finland, Team Manitoba U-18 POE Development Camp, and most recently the Hockey Canada National Women's Under-18 Camp and made the team.

The IIHF camp, which was held at the Sport Institute of Finland from July 9-16th was the first camp she participated in this summer.

"It was amazing," said Schroeder. "It was such a great opportunity. Being able to meet other players from all over the world and be able to see what the calibre of hockey is everywhere else, while getting more exposure for myself. It was really awesome."

Schroeder noted this was an opportunity for her to learn the game of hockey through different coaches from all over the world. It also gave her the chance to diversify her game a bit, with different techniques than what she has learned in Canada.

"It was a little difficult. I think there was an eight hour time change for me. Obviously the food was a little different as well," said Schroeder. "Adjusting wasn't to bad after a couple of days. It was like many of the other camps I have been to before and was easy to jump into the rhythm of everything as well."

Continuing with the busy summer Schroeder had, next on the schedule was the Team Manitoba U-18 POE development camp in Winnipeg, July 19-21.

"It went well. It was good to kind of meet everyone. That was the first time seeing the team that will be playing at against the University of Manitoba. It was good to get to know everyone and also just start working together as a team," said Schroeder.

This was a time for the girls to learn the coaches systems, jell as a team, and prepare for the Bison (U of M) exhibition series in September. After this mini series, Schroeder noted their will be a few more cuts made to finalize the roster, who will be competing at Nationals. She noted the team is currently sitting at 26 players, and will be cut down to about 20 after the series with the Bisons. The POE team has four goalies remaining on the roster and they will most likely take two.

"I found that working with different goalie coaches is good as you always get different perspectives and always find things you need to work on," said Schroeder. I learned a bit there as well and kind of figured out some things I need to fine tune in my game as well."

Hockey Canada invited her to the U-18 Hockey Development camp, and for a chance to make the Canadian Women's U-18 National Team, who played a mini series against the U-18 team from U.S.A.

"At first it was kind of unbelievable. I wasn't really sure if I was going to make it. I had no clue that I was going to make it. I was on the fence whether I would or not. Being named to the team was just crazy, because I still haven't realized that I am one of the top three in the country (for her age) and that's huge."

"It was so incredible. I can't even describe that feeling, but it was so amazing to wear that jersey," said Schroeder when asked about dawning the Canadian jersey. "Just to feel that pride of making it there."

The National Women's U-18 Team played in a three game mini-series against the United States U-18 team. U.S.A. took the series two games to one and Schroeder got some crease time in the second game.

"It was a really good opportunity to play against the United States," said Schroeder. "It gives you a bit of experience in that style of game and the pace. It lets you shake off the nerves. It wasn't a competition or anything. So, when the time comes when you have to compete, you won't have as many nerves and you'll be ready to go. I found it was very helpful."

Schroeder will suit up with the Balmoral Hall Blazers in the Junior Women's Hockey League for the 2016-17 hockey season.