[2][3] Goodale is a great-great-granddaughter of James H. Smith Jr. and Pauline Sabin and of Yale athlete Tom Shevlin.

[14] Goodale announced in June 2011 that she was officially retired from rowing and planned to move to Ecuador with her father.

[18] In 2014, Goodale spent the 2014-15 school year as an assistant coach for the rowing team at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.

[14][23] She was the first women to have her number retired at Syracuse — along with basketball legend Felisha Legette-Jack and lacrosse player Katie Rowan Thomson.

[24][25] Goodale is married to Wes Walker, who was an assistant volleyball coach at Eastern Washington University.