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Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges

2024 Women's Track and Field

Natalie Bitetti

  • Year Senior
  • Hometown La Crescenta, CA
  • High School Crescenta Valley
  • Events Distance
  • College Claremont McKenna

Biography



TFRRS Results

At CMS

Ranks second all-time in CMS outdoor track and field history in the 1500 meters with a time of 4:26.59, second in the 5000 meters in 16:37.65, and eighth in the 800 meters with a 2:14.02 ... Has indoor times of 9:29.76 in the 3000 and 16:33.50 in the 5000 of 16:33.50, which are the fastest in CMS history (indoors or outdoors). 

2023-24 (Senior)
Indoor All-America First Team (3000, DMR) ... Outdoor All-America Second Team (5000) ... SCIAC Champion (1500, 5000) ... Second-Team CSC Academic All-America ... All-American and SCIAC Athlete of the Year in Cross Country ... USTFCCCA All-Region ... SCIAC Track Athlete of the Week (April 8) ... SCIAC All-Academic Team ...  Earned a runner-up finish at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championships in the 3000 meters with a time of 9:31.74, following up on a runner-up finish in the NCAA Cross Country Championships in the fall ... Also part of a distance medley relay team that came in third during indoors ... Came in ninth at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships to earn second-team All-America honors ... Swept the 1500 and the 5000 at the SCIAC Championships, winning the 1500 in 4:28.22 and the 5000 in 17:29.40 ... Had PRs in both the 800 and the 1500 at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational, running a 2:14.02 in the 800 and a 4:26.59 in the 1500 to set a CMS record at the time, earning SCIAC Track Athlete of the Week honors ... Had a 9:29.76 in the 3000 at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational at Boston University. 

2022-23 (Junior)
SCIAC Cross Country Athlete of the Year ... Cross Country All-American ... SCIAC Cross Country Champion ... Did not compete in track and field season while studying abroad.

2021-22 (Sophomore)
All-SCIAC (1500, 800) ... USTFCCCA All-West Region (1500) ... (National Qualifier (1500)
... SCIAC All-Academic Team ... USTFCCCA All-Academic Team ... Earned second place at the SCIAC Championships in the 1500 meters with a time of 4:37.23 ... Also came in third in the 800 with a 2:17.74 ... Had PRs of 2:16.60 in the 800 and 4;33.69 in the 1500 ... Qualified for the 1500 meters at the NCAA Divisiion III Championships and came in 18th ... Won the 800 at a five-team SCIAC Multi-Dual in 2:16.60 ... Also took first in the 1500 at the first SCIAC Multi-Dual at La Verne in 4:43.20 ... Won the mile at the Whitworth Indoor Invitational (5:08.28).

2021-22 (Cross Country)
USTFCCCA All-American ... First-Team All-West Region ... First-Team All-SCIAC ... SCIAC Athlete of the Week (Oct. 4) ... Finished in the top 20 of every race she ran in her debut season, including 16th at the NCAA Division III Championships to earn All-America honors and help CMS to its highest-ever team finish (second) ... Earned third place at the West Region Championships to earn All-Region distinction in a time of 22:01.4 ... Came in fourth at the SCIAC Championships in 21:47.6 ... Earned third place at the Division III Pre-Nationals in Louisville, earning SCIAC Athlete of the Week honors after leading the Athenas to a first-place finish ... Came in sixth in her debut race at the Mark Covert Classic, finishing the 5K in 18:20.0 ... Earned a PR for a 6K at the UC Riverside Invitational in 20:42.5. 

2020-21 (First-Year)
SCIAC All-Academic Team ... Athenas did not compete due to COVID-19.

Prior to CMS
Attended Crescenta Valley High School, where she was a member of the cross country team ... Came in third at the Pacific League Championships as a senior with a PR of 18:06.2, helping Crescenta Valley to the conference title ... Finished 39th of 181 runners at the CIF Southern Section finals as a senior ... Played competitive travel softball in high school and was originally recruited for softball at CMS.

Personal
Attends Claremont McKenna, where she majors in human biology 

Natalie Bitetti posed shot

Historical Player Information

  • 2022Sophomore

    Distance
  • 2024Senior

    Distance