Natalie Hurst
Hurst at an Opals training camp
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| Born |
8 April 1983 Australian Capital Territory |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Listed height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) |
| Position | Guard |
Natalie Hurst (born 8 April 1983) is an Australian basketball player. She played junior basketball in Canberra and went on to play for the Canberra Capitals in the WNBL. With the Capitals, she won league championships in 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2008/2009 and 2009/2010. In 2011/2012, she played for the French club, Aix en Provence. She is a member of the Australia women's national basketball team, with her first national team cap in 2009. She won a gold medal in 2009 at the FIBA Oceania Women's Championships. She is a member of the 2012 national team.
Hurst was born on 8 April 1983 in the Australian Capital Territory. She is 163 centimetres (5 ft 4 in) tall.
Hurst is a guard, specializing as a point guard. She played junior basketball in Canberra.
In June 2008, she played for the Launceston Tornadoes in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL) where she was the team's star player. In June 2008, she was suspended from basketball entirely for five weeks, with another five weeks applicable if the board received reports of further misconduct, for swearing at a referee. The incident occurred in a match between Somerset and Devonport in the North West Basketball Union (NWBU). She appealed the decision. Her teammates who came from outside the region to play debated boycotting practice in order to support her and express their unhappiness at the length of her ban. Lou Cox, the league's president, urged them not to: "I think that would be a very short sighted and poor response. All players that play the game, whether in the NWBU or the SEABL or the WNBL would be aware of the code of conduct." An independent tribunal reduced the sentence to five weeks in late June, and only for NWBU games; four of these weeks would only apply if further misconduct occurred within a year's time. This allowed Hurst to continue playing with the SEABL Tornadoes without interruption, and to return to Somerset after one week.
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