Karen Koch [pronounced "Cook"] (born 1951) is an American former ice hockey goaltender.

[1][2] She signed a contract for $40 per game which made her the first professional female hockey player in North America.

Leonard "Oakie" Brumm, then coach for the past eighteen seasons, has said her only drawback was her size and that, since they were larger, the team's other goalies "stopped more pucks by accident than she did on purpose.

They also set up a pre-game penalty shot with then-mayor John Rhodes, who had been a hockey player in the past.

[2][3] She was eventually let go from the Iron Rangers after repeatedly going against her coach's orders and removing her mask during the after-Christmas games.