Considering her glass-ceiling-shattering accomplishment, it looks to me as if Katie Guay isn’t getting nearly the attention or the credit that she deserves.

Working in the ECAC, Guay is the first woman to referee NCAA Division I men’s games on a regular basis.

And she’s good at it. Maybe that’s why it seems like a lot of people in the college hockey community and beyond haven’t really noticed. Bad refereeing gets talked about. Good reffing, not so much.

Of course, refs generally don’t want to be noticed. Just call the game -- no muss, no fuss, no controversy.

“That’s what we strive for every night,’’ said Guay, a forward at Brown University from 2001 to 2005.

But the significance of what Guay is doing should not be overlooked.

Her boss, ECAC director of officials Paul Stewart, is so confident in her that he assigned her to work at Madison Square Garden – one of the biggest stages in sports -- when Cornell and New Hampshire played there on Nov. 26. Last weekend, she was on more familiar turf, calling Brown’s home games against Union and Rensselaer.

“One of the most telling comments that I have had directed toward me was when Hall of Famer Bill Cleary came up to me after the Harvard-Princeton game last year and said to me, ‘I didn’t know it was a woman until someone pointed it out to me,’’ said Stewart, who knows a good ref when he sees one after calling over 1,000 regular-season games during two decades in the NHL.

“I said, ‘Didn’t that little ponytail give it away?’ He said, ‘No, not in this day and age.’ And then he said, ‘Boy, she’s good.’’’

Cleary was an All-American at Harvard, an Olympic gold medalist and a legendary coach. So when he says someone is good, well, that’s good enough for me.

Guay played on boys teams while growing up, including her freshman year at Westfield, Mass., High School. Then she moved on to Deerfield Academy, where she was a four-sport athlete. She played for Digit Murphy at Brown and was co-captain as a senior. “I was a grinder,’’ she said.

“Once I was done playing, I really just missed being around the rink and staying involved in the game that was such a part of my life for so many years. To be out there as a ref is just such a different adrenaline flow,’’ said Guay, who is the major gifts officer and an assistant girls coach at the Noble and Greenough School in Dedham, Mass.

Guay has been reffing at a variety of levels for several years, including women’s D-I games. She was assigned by Stewart to her first men’s D-I game in 2015. She is working both men’s and women’s games this season.

The pace in D-I men’s hockey is far faster than on the women’s side, but Guay has no trouble keeping up.

“Her speed allows her to get to great sight lines. The fact is that she has that hockey knack, that sense. She knows instinctively where to go,’’ said Stewart.

“She’s one of the five top skaters that I have on our staff. She’s in the top three for skating backwards. I predict that if the National Hockey League ever thought that it could get to the point where they would have a woman official, it would be a person such as Katie.’’

Guay said that she’s been treated fairly by the men, even if players are sometimes surprised to see her.

“Certainly there are some heads that turn a couple of times in warmups to do a double take. As far as the respect level, I’ve been incredibly impressed with the players and coaches. They treat me as they would treat any other official out there, which is all I can ask for,’’ she said.

Not that there haven’t been some people, off the ice, who have privately questioned whether a woman is up to the job of calling high-level men’s hockey.

“I’m not meaning to beatify her -- she’s a referee -- but she has challenges that others don’t have. They are unspoken in this politically correct world, but she’s met them with class and I think that she’s done a great job,’’ said Stewart.

“As I said to someone who had mentioned her gender: Get used to it. What matters is, when they put their hand in the air, is it a penalty?’’

Guay drew some notice briefly in 2014 when she and Erin Blair reffed one game in the men's Southern Professional Hockey League, but that smacked of a publicity stunt as the Columbus, Ga., Cottonmouths of the SPHL were having “Hockey and Heels/Girl Scout Night.’’

The opportunity to work men’s games in the ECAC is based strictly on merit.

Said Stewart: “(Harvard and U.S. Olympic coach) Katey Stone, when she first learned that we were going to assign (Guay to men’s games), said, ‘I hope this isn’t a gimmick.’ I said, 'Do I look like the type of guy that does gimmicks?’ I’m putting people out there because they can do the job. This isn’t a march on Washington.’’