Natalie Kalibat

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 as a swimming and diving analyst for ACC Network Extra starting in 2019 [14][15][16] and Big 12 Now covering the Big 12 diving championships in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023.[17] She is also a color analyst for FIU Panthers football radio broadcasts. [18] She was the play-by-play broadcaster for the 2022 Northeast Conference women's lacrosse championships. [19] Kalibat served as the sideline reporter for the 2022 Ivy League women's lacrosse championships[20] and the 2022 NCAA women's lacrosse tournament games held at Princeton.[21] She also currently calls swimming and diving for the Ivy League on ESPN [22] and FloSwimming [23] and swimming & diving and women's lacrosse for the Atlantic 10 on ESPN. [24] She broadcast women's basketball, softball and women's lacrosse for the Big South on ESPN [25] and is a hockey analyst for the Ivy League on ESPN,[26] a basketball sideline reporter for Conference USA on ESPN+ [27] and NXT Level Sports [28] and a lacrosse and softball analyst for the American Athletic Conference on ESPN+.[29]

Her mother Rebecca,[30] sister Kristiana [31] and brother Peter [32] were all college swimmers, with Rebecca competing at University of Mary Washington, Kristiana at Wagner College and Peter at Georgetown University. Natalie got engaged[33] to then-VCU assistant baseball coach Rich Witten[34] 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.[35]

Rich Witten is now the head baseball coach at Florida International University.[36]