Vetter played as a goaltender on the boys' ice hockey team at
Monona Grove High School and won three state girls' soccer championships. While in high school, she was a four-time all-conference selection and a three-time all-state pick in soccer.[3]
Wisconsin Badgers
In her four-year NCAA career, Vetter won an NCAA record 91 games (since broken by
Hillary Pattenden[4]) during her four-year career and posted an NCAA-record 39 career shutouts.[5] She also held the record for most goalie shutouts in one season with 14 (accomplished in 2008–09),[6] since broken by another Badger goaltender,
Ann-Renée Desbiens.
In her senior year at Wisconsin, Vetter went 30–2–5 with a 1.33 GAA, (2nd NCAA) and 0.936 Save percentage, (2nd NCAA). She also finished second in the NCAA in minutes played with 2162:16. She is a 2009 WCHA first team honoree, an all-tournament honoree, and the WCHA Final Face-Off MVP as Wisconsin won the League championship and garnered the top seed going into the NCAA championships.[7]
In 2006, she became the first goalie to record a Frozen Four shutout when she notched two.[8]
In 2006–07, Vetter and Christine Dufour combined for 15 shutouts. Vetter was voted the top goalie and had a 1.24 goals-against average and a save percentage of .932.[9]
Vetter broke the NCAA single-season goals-against average record with a mark of 0.83 in 2006–07. As a result, that made her the first goalie in NCAA history to post a GAA below 1.00.[10] In that same season, Vetter recorded a shutout streak that reached 448 minutes and 32 seconds – the longest not only in NCAA women's hockey history but also in men's history.
Vetter won 31 games and had 13 shutouts during the 2008–09 season.[11]
She was the first ice hockey player to be named the Sportswoman of the Year by the Women's Sports Foundation.[12]
In 2010–11, Vetter was an assistant coach for Madison (Wis.) Capitols 19-Under Tier I squad.[16] Her squad played in the USA Hockey National Championships from April 6–10.
Jessie Vetter Award
The Jessie Vetter Award was introduced in 2010. It is awarded by Wisconsin Prep Hockey to the top female ice hockey goaltender in Wisconsin prep school. A list of winners includes: