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2025 MIT Women's Soccer Roster

Chris Aduama
Ryan Boyles
Gil Talbot
Gil Talbot
Burt Granofsky
Gil Talbot
Gil Talbot
Jim Stankiewicz

8 Natalie Barnouw

  • Position M
  • Height 5-3
  • Class Graduate Student
  • High School Harvard-Westlake
  • Hometown Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Major Computational Biology

Biography

Career Highs
  • Goals - 3 vs. Salve Regina (October 19, 2024)
  • Assists - 3 vs. Lesley (September 10, 2021)
  • Points -7  vs. Salve Regina (October 19, 2024)
  • Shots - 7 (Twice) - Most Recently vs. Salve Regina (October 19, 2024)

Accolades:
  • 2023 CSC First Team Academic All-American 
  • 2024 CSC Second Team Academic All-American
  • 2x CSC Academic All-District (2023, 2024) 
  • 2021 NEWMAC Rookie of the Year 
  • 2024 NEWMAC Player of the Year
  • 2024 NEWMAC Women's Student-Athlete of the Year
  • 3x NEWMAC Academic All-Conference (2022, 2023, 2024) 
  • 3x NEWMAC First Team All-Conference (2021, 2023, 2024) 
  • NEWMAC Offensive Player of the Week (October 21, 2024)
  • 2024 United Soccer Coaches Second Team All-American
  • 3x United Soccer Coaches First Team All-Region (2021, 2023, 2024) 
  • 2024 United Soccer Coaches First Team Scholar All-American
  • 2023 United Soccer Coaches Third Team Scholar All-American 
  • 2x NEWISA All-New England First Team (Top Vote Getter) (2023, 2024) 
2024:
  • Recorded first collegiate hattrick against Salve Regina
  • Scored game-winning PK goal against Geneseo in the NCAA First Round Game
  • Finished the season with a career-best 13 goals including five game-winners
2023:
  • Appeared and started in 26 games  
  • Recorded a point in 12 of 26 matches 
  • Posted three game winning goals 
  • Tallied an assist in the NEWMAC Championship win over Babson on November 4 
  • Ranked second on the team and in the conference in assists (7) 
  • Helped the MIT offense lead the NEWMAC in goals scored (75)
2022:
  • Did not see any action
2021: 
  • Appeared in 24 games and made 22 starts
  • Scored first career goal on September 4 against Bridgewater State
  • Posted a five-point game on September 10 against Lesley (1g, 2a)
  • Scored the game-winning goal in overtime against Carnegie Mellon in the third round of the NCAA Tournament to send MIT to its first-ever Elite 8. 
Before MIT:
  • Graduated from Harvard-Westlake
  • Team captain (11th and 12th grade)
  • Starter in all four years 
  • Named to All-CIF 1st Team (10th and 11th grade)
  • Named to All-CIF 2nd Team (9th grade)
  • Named to All-League 1st Team (9th-11th grade)
  • Named team MVP (10th grade), defensive MVP (12th grade)
  • Participated in the 2019 ECNL Conference Selection Program (10th grade), and named to that year’s ECNL All-Conference Team
  • Invited to the 2020 ECNL Conference Selection Program (cancelled due to pandemic.)
  • Participated in US Soccer Girls training center sessions from March 2015 through June 2017
  • Selected as a 2018 Cal South ODP 2003 team alternate
  • Also played field hockey
  • National Chinese Honor Society (10th Grade)
  • Knitting Club
  • Asian Students in Action (ASiA) club member
Personal:
  • Majoring in Computational Biology 
  • Minor in Computer Science
  • UROP at MIT - studied the use of nanoparticles for drug delivery of cytokines to fight ovarian cancer
  • At the NIAAA, developed a GPR110-enhanced cell line using CRISPRa technology
  • UCSF Catalyst Internship Program intern: developed a Target Product Profile (TPP) for UCSF members' product
  • Summer research intern at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
  • Wet Lab researcher
  • Studying the gene GPR110 and its role in neurodevelopment
  • MIT BrainTrust Webmaster 
  • American Red Cross Team and Network of MIT (ARCTAN) Community Service Coordinator 
  • Crafts Club president
  • UA Incomm (Undergraduate Association Innovation Committee)
Favorite Sports Memory:
  • 2019 Women's World Cup final
Favorite Memory as an MIT Student-Athlete:
  • Our sweet 16 game my freshman year and making it into the elite 8 for the first time!
Club:
  • LA Breakers ECNL
  • Club team won the Cal South National Cup

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Historical Player Information

  • 3

    2021First Year

    M
    5'3"
    3
  • 3

    2022Sophomore

    M
    5'3"
    3
  • 8

    2023Junior

    M
    5'3"
    8
  • 8

    2024Senior

    M
    5'3"
    8
  • 8

    2025Graduate Student

    M
    5'3"
    8