Natalie Kalibat is an American sportscaster, journalist and television personality who is currently doing live sports broadcasts as a play-by-play announcer, color analyst, and reporter for ESPN and other sports networks. She is the host of the "Diving in Deep" podcast.
Natalie Kalibat | |
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 Kalibat in 2021 | |
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| Alma mater | University of Southern California |
| Occupation(s) | Sportscaster, journalist |
| Years active | 2016-present |
| Spouse | Rich Witten |
| Website | nataliekalibat |
Kalibat grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. [1]
Kalibat won the 2012 United States Olympic Trials for diving in the Synchronized Women 10m Platform event [2] and won 1-meter, 3-meter and platform AAU titles in 2012. [3] She qualified for Olympic trials while a senior in high school. [4]
She was a diver at the University of Southern California and was part of the 2016 Pac-12 championship team, the first in program history. [5] She graduated from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. [6]
While at USC, Kalibat interned for ESPN, Pac-12 Networks and KNBC. [7]
She was hired as the weekend sports anchor at WBOY-TV in Clarksburg, West Virginia in July 2016 [8] before moving to WRIC-TV in December 2017. [9] Kalibat covered the Washington Football Team during their training camp in Richmond. [10] She also covered the NASCAR Cup Series at Richmond Raceway. [11] [12]
She has worked as a diving analyst for Big Ten Network at the 2018 championships [13] and Big 12 Now covering the Big 12 diving championships in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 on ESPN+. [14]
She was the diving analyst and reporter for the 2024 American Athletic Conference championships. [15] and the diving analyst for the 2024 Sun Belt Conference championships., [16] with both airing on ESPN+.
She is a sideline reporter for ESPN's college football coverage. [17]
She is also a color analyst for FIU Panthers football radio broadcasts [18] and FAU Owls basketball, [19] softball [20] and volleyball [21] broadcasts.
She was the play-by-play broadcaster for the 2022 Northeast Conference women's lacrosse championships. [22] Kalibat served as the sideline reporter for the 2022 Ivy League women's lacrosse championships [23] and the 2022 NCAA women's lacrosse tournament games held at Princeton. [24]
She also currently calls swimming and diving for ACC Network Extra starting in 2019, [25] [26] [27] the Ivy League on ESPN [28] and FloSwimming [29] and swimming & diving and women's lacrosse for the Atlantic 10 on ESPN. [30]
She broadcast women's basketball, softball and women's lacrosse for the Big South on ESPN [31] and is a hockey analyst for the Ivy League on ESPN, [32] a basketball sideline reporter for Conference USA on ESPN+ [33] and NXT Level Sports [34] and a lacrosse and softball analyst for the American Athletic Conference on ESPN+. [35]
Her mother Rebecca, [36] sister Kristiana [37] and brother Peter [38] were all college swimmers, with Rebecca competing at University of Mary Washington, Kristiana at Wagner College and Peter at Georgetown University. Natalie got engaged [39] to then-VCU assistant baseball coach Rich Witten [40] in 2019. The two were married at Saint Paul's Catholic Church in Princeton on December 18, 2021. The reception was held at Jasna Polana. [41]
Rich Witten is now the head baseball coach at Florida International University. [42]
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