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2023-24 Women's Swimming and Diving Roster

Natalie Whalen (she/her/hers)

  • Class Senior
  • Hometown Southlake, Texas
  • High School Southlake Carroll
  • Event Butterfly/IM/Backstroke
  • Concentration Applied Mathematics
  • House Adams

Biography

Top Collegiate Times

50-Yard Freestyle: 25.88 (11/17/23)
100-Yard Freestyle: 53.23 (12/5/21)
200-Yard Freestyle: 1:55.87 (12/3/21)
500-Yard Freestyle: 5:02.57 (12/5/19)
100-Yard Backstroke: 58.02 (2/1/20)
200-Yard Backstroke: 2:00.47 (2/22/20)
100-Yard Butterfly: 57.16 (11/22/19)
200-Yard Butterfly: 2:02.19 (2/22/20)
200-Yard Individual Medley: 2:11.22 (11/9/19)
400-Yard Individual Medley: 4:21.56 (2/21/20)

2023-24 (Senior)

Raced her best 50 free at Columbia (25.88)…Her fastest 100 free (54.82) and 100 back (59.01) both came at the Minnesota Invitational…Raced a team top-10 time of 58.57 in the 100 butterfly at the Ivy League Championships…Competed in the 400 free relay.

2022-23 (Junior)

Recorded her best 100 time at Dartmouth with Cornell (55.58) ... Swam her fastest 100 back (58.81) and 100 fly (57.99) at the Minnesota Invitational ... Posted the team's sixth-best 200 fly performance at the HYP meet (2:08.93) ... Also competed on the 200 and 400 versions of the free and medley relays. 

2021-22 (Sophomore)

Swam season-best times of 53.23 in the 100 freestyle, 1:55.87 in the 200 free, 58.54 in the 100 back, and 58.48 in the 100 butterfly … Also competed in the 200 free relay … Helped the Crimson win the 2022 Ivy League title.

2020-21

Season canceled due to COVID-19.

2019-20 (First-Year)

Posted season-best times at the Ivy League Championships in the 200-yard backstroke (2:00.47), 200-yard butterfly (2:02.19), 400-yard IM (4:21.56) ... Finished second in the 100-yard backstroke at H-Y-P, posting a season-best time of 58.02 and placed eighth in the 200-yard butterfly clocking in at 2:03.27 ... Placed third in the 200-yard backstroke against Penn (2:06.61) and fourth in the 200-yard butterfly against Brown (2:03.14) ... Competed in three events at the Minnesota Invitational ... Posted a time of 5:02.57 in the 500-yard freestyle which was the 11th-best time on the team ... Finished 22nd in the 200-yard butterfly touching the wall with a time of 2:02.95 ... Earned her first first-place finish of the season in the 200-yard butterfly in a dual meet against Columbia with a time of 2:02.99.

Before Harvard

NISCA All-American from 2015-19 … Texas UIL 6A State Championship Gold Medalist (2019) … Texas UIL 6A all-state team selection (2015-19) … Regional champion, all-region team selection and district champion (2015-19) … Helped Southlake Carroll to a state championship and won individual/relay state titles during her tenure … Selected as a national team member while swimming for Lakeside Aquatic Club (2017-19) … Named an AP Scholar with Distinction … Member of the National Honor Society (2017-19), Math National Honor Society (2017-19), Science National Honor Society (2017-19) and Carroll Medical Academy (2015-19) … Was a class representative, excellence and volunteer award winner, and a Scholars and Athletes Serving Others volunteer every year at Southlake Carroll … Brother, Austin, swam at Georgia Tech and was a part of the Class of 2019 … Daughter of Michelle and David.

Historical Player Information

  • 2019-20First-Year

    Butterfly/IM/Backstroke
  • 2021-22Sophomore

    Butterfly/IM/Backstroke
  • 2022-23Junior

    Butterfly/IM/Backstroke
  • 2023-24Senior

    Butterfly/IM/Backstroke