Natalie Porter

Natalie Porter

Natalie Porter during a Capitals vs Logan Thunder game at AIS Arena
No. 40 – Canberra Capitals
Position	Forward
League	WNBL
Personal information
Born	16 December 1980 Melbourne, Victoria
Nationality	Australia
Listed height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Career information
NBA draft	2000 / 61
Selected by the New York Liberty
Playing career	1996–2012
Career history
?	Australian Institute of Sport, Dandenong Rangers, Townsville Fire, Sydney Uni Flames, Lavezzini Parma
Medals Representing  Australia Women's basketball Olympic Games 2004 Athens Women's basketball

Natalie Porter (born 16 December 1980) is an Australian basketball player who played for the Australian national team and became an Olympic medalist. In her home country, she has played for four different top-level teams including the Dandenong Rangers, Townsville Fire, Sydney Uni Flames and Canberra Capitals. In 2000, she was drafted by the Women's National Basketball Association. She has also played basketball in Italy. She has been a member of the Australia women's national basketball team (the Opals), and won a silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens as a member of the team.

Natalie Porter was born in Melbourne, Victoria on 16 December 1980. She is 185 centimetres (73 in) tall.

Porter started playing basketball when she was five years old. In 1996, she was at the Australian Institute of Sport as a basketball scholarship holder.

In 1997, Porter joined the Dandenong Rangers, a team in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). In 2003, she moved to the Townsville Fire, where she was the team captain. That year, she was named the Robyn Maher Defensive Player of the Year, and a member of the WNBL All-Star Five. She was with the team again in 2004, remaining as captain.

Porter played for the Sydney Uni Flames in 2006, where she earned the Sydney Uni Players' Player award. In a February 2007 game against the Canberra Capitals, she scored 19 points. In the season's Grand Final that her team lost, she scored 15 points against the Canberra Capitals. In 2007/2008, Porter played for the team again. The Sydney Morning Herald described her as one of the team's stars. In a December 2007 game, she scored 41 points against the Capitals. In a January 2008 game, she scored 25 points. She topped off the season by being named the MVP. In 2009, she was named the team's captain after returning from playing in Italy. In an October 2009 game for Sydney, she scored 21 points. In another game that month, she scored 19 points and had 10 rebounds.