TOURNAMENTS
Summer 2011 GREAT RESULTS
-I believe that my coach Claire Pollard's belief in me is well founded as i am training hard to make my second year at Northwestern a success and play in the lineup as we compete for a national championship.
-I have begun training with former top40 ATP player Jeff Tarango and have improved greatly.
-Just recently i won the Flint Canyon Tennis Classic winning all 4 rounds in straight sets. Most notable were wins over former top20 USTA player and #2 seed Marivit Mamiit (Cecil Mamiits sister) formerly of William and Mary and now of UC Irvine 6-3 6-3, and Alexandra Tallas of Gonzaga 6-4, 6-3 in the semis. In the finals I beat a girl from Vassar College also in straight sets 7-6, 6-2
2010 YEAR IN REVIEW
-Claire Pollard (Northwestern University) and I really connected. I feel that she is a great and consistent communicator who has confidence in me. My first year at Northwestern was a learning experience as i got to play in 11 singles matches compiling a 6-5 record and beating girls from Vanderbilt among other D1 schools. My doubles record was 6-2 and my doubles team won 2 different tourneys in the fall 2010. We lost in the NCAA National Championships Round of 16 to Stanford @ Stanford in a 5 1/2 match and Finished the year ranked #10 ITA Nationally.
-I had taken many visits to schools including: UNC, UVA, Northwestern, Kentucky, UCSB, Yale, Tufts, Amherst, UConn, and gotten coaches inquiries from more than 50 other schools
-Many coaches observed me playing including Northwestern, Kentucky, UVA among others.
-Offered several scholarships including: Northwestern,Kentucky, UCSB, ODU, Army, Navy, UConn, among others.
2009 YEAR IN REVIEW
-Was a tough year where I had to get rehabbed from various injuries that i have always played thru. At this point my shoulder is fully healed and my serves are now ranging from 100-110mph.
-Performed at Donovan Classic at Yale in June 2009, beat Top 100, 5 star player.
-In June 2009, returned from training in Arizona and playing on the ITF Pro Tour since January.
-Toured in Mexico, Asia and Eastern Europe during first half of 2009 and gained valuable experience
-From January to June 2009 moved to Arizona after being 'taken-on' full time by professional tennis coach Adam Altschuler, who coached Victoria Azarenka to a WTA #14 world ranking
2008 YEAR IN REVIEW
-as a junior in Copper Bowl in January 2008 beat 2 players in Top 100 Nationally.
-2008 summer won a Level 5 National tournament & beat #1 junior from Brazil
6-0, 6-4 in semis.
-In Carmel Valley Level 3 National tournament in 2008 beat 2 Top US players, #7 seed and 5 STAR Karolyn Kecki 6-2, 6-2 and Blue Chipper Savannah Ware #32 in US 6-2, 7-5.
-In G18s division started out undefeated in 8 matches and won 2 tournaments in G18s until ended junior events to moved to Arizona
-besides USTA tournaments listed on this site also played in 2 ITAs during summer of 2008. Made it to 3rd round of one tournament and lost in Rd 2 of another. Beat all Div 2 girls played and some Div 1 players. Had a very competitive match pushing #1 seed, Tania Mahtani, University of Michigan #2 singles player, to a 7-5 final set. lost a close match in a 3rd set tiebreaker to Michelle Murphy of University of California @ SB at Ventura College. Michelle was the then #1 singles at school and former BLUE CHIPPER and Top 25 National girl. Also lost in 2 1/2 hour match to 5 STAR and #3 singles girl from USC in close match at Pomona ITA.
HIGH SCHOOL
-played basketball, soccer and volleyball before focusing solely on tennis in 9th grade
-Attended Saddlebrook Prep Academy for 9th grade while training at the Saddlebrook Academy in Tampa Florida with Pascal Collard - 4.0 GPA unadjusted
-Attended Nordhoff HS in Ojai California after moving from Florida back to California for half 9th grade and all of 10th - 3.7 GPA unadjusted
-2008/09- attended Laurel Springs Preparatory School for 11th grade - 4.0 GPA
-enrolled at Westlake HS in California for senior year, expected graduation June 2010
overall GPA is 3.8
TENNIS CAMPS
Stanford University - NIKE - summer 2007
UCLA (Billy Martin) - summers 2004, 2005, 2006
Pepperdine University- summer 2005
ACADEMY
-Saddlebrook Academy - Tampa, Florida - Jan 2006-Jan 2007 (1 yr)
-Weil Tennis Academy - Ojai, California - Jan 2007-Jan 2009 (2 yrs)
-Grunt Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona training with Adam Altschuler - a professional tennis coach who coached Victoria Azarenka, currently WTA#8
He discovered Natalie during a workout and coached her full time from Jan 2009 until June 2009.
-Natalie played in ITF Pro tourniies $10k, 25k, 75ks, beginning in March 2009.
-currently working with 2 coaches principally overseen by my dad: Page Bartelt, former #1 at ASU and UCSB, and Top 300 pro player and Radek Parez, former CZECH pro.
-have scheduled matches weekly against top college, carson players and pros. They include: Logan Hansen, Stanford; Monica Weisener, former #1 UCSB, #2 UC Berkeley and current pro player, Jaime Macias, current pro player, Riza, former #1 UCLA and current #136 in world doubles professionally, among others.
