Prior to her professional career, Goldberg played four seasons for the Northeastern University Huskies women's ice hockey team.

[9] She played boys ice hockey, with her twin brother, for the Ventura Mariners and L.A. Selects before she moved to Vermont for her last two years of high school.

[6][8] In her sophomore year she needed surgery to remove five screws and a plate from her left fibula that were causing nerve pain.

[8] There she also served as a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, where she was eventually elected the group's president and acted as an ambassador of the program.

[18][19] Goldberg graduated from undergrad in 2015 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services (counseling & therapy), concentration in psychology, with a health science minor.

[20] Since she graduated she had been working in Commercial Real Estate in Boston, Massachusetts while playing professional women's ice hockey.

[16] The chief scout of the team said that she would have been drafted a year prior, but for a series of injuries that Goldberg suffered during her career—including two broken legs.