Athlete Awards

Athletes of the Week

Natalia Novak

Natalia Novak

  • Award
    Athletes of the Week
  • Week Of
    11/8/2021
  • Sport
    Women's Cross Country
  • Bio
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Senior Natalia Novak led Academy of Art women's cross country for the second consecutive race, guiding the Urban Knights to fourth place (the team's best in program history) at the NCAA West Regional Championship in Monmouth, Ore. on Nov. 6.

Familiar with the 6k course after running it in 2019, Novak remained inside the top 15 for the entirety of the race. Chasing the front pack at the 2.4k checkpoint, the Communications & Media Technologies major jumped nine of her competitors some 1.5k later then honed in on the leaders down the stretch. She was soon fourth at 4.4k and climbed up to third by more than four seconds with a new personal best of 21:27.1. The time was the third-fastest 6k in ART U history and the top 10 finish, her seventh, brought her into a tie second in program history with teammate graduate student Hasna Kaarour.

The performance earned Novak All-Region Team honors.


Athlete Awards
Date Athlete Sport
12/2/2019 Stefan Milivojevic Men's Basketball
12/2/2019 Kai Tease Men's Basketball
11/25/2019 Hasna Kaarour Women's Cross Country
11/25/2019 Carly Evetts Women's Volleyball
11/18/2019 Joshua Bagley Men's Basketball
11/18/2019 Carly Evetts Women's Volleyball
11/11/2019 Hasna Kaarour Women's Cross Country
11/11/2019 Tayler Bennett Women's Basketball
11/4/2019 Katie Williams Women's Soccer
11/4/2019 Anissa Wilson Women's Soccer
10/28/2019 Hasna Kaarour Women's Cross Country
10/28/2019 Picabo Reinhold Women's Volleyball
10/21/2019 Iveta Posledni Women's Golf
10/21/2019 Zhane Chan Men's Golf
10/14/2019 Julius Kreutzer Men's Golf
10/14/2019 Sadie Emery Women's Volleyball
10/7/2019 Anissa Wilson Women's Soccer
10/7/2019 Sydney Cooke Women's Soccer
9/30/2019 Mariacristina Andrisani Women's Tennis
9/30/2019 Carly Evetts Women's Volleyball
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