Seattle Pacific University Athletics

SPU: Five-year letterwinner. ... All-GNAC Honorable Mention in 2022 and 2023. ... CSC (formerly CoSIDA) Academic All-District in 2023. ... GNAC All-Academic in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. ... Team MVP in 2021-22. ... Team co-captain in 2021-22. ... Falcon Award for Excellence in 2023.

Fifth Year (2022-23):  Played in and started all 28 games, one of just two Falcons to do so. ... Averaged 10.8 points and 5.5 rebounds. ... Hit .827 at the free throw line (81 of 98), ranking No. 7 in the GNAC. ... Scored a career-high 20 points and made it a double-double with 12 rebounds to help the Falcons down Northwest Nazarene on Dec. 29 in Seattle, 58-45. That was the seventh and final double-double of her career. ... Topped that with 21 points in a 69-65 victory against Alaska Anchorage in the first round of the GNAC Tournament on March 2. ... Scored her 900th career point on Feb. 18 at Western Washington. ... In that same game, earned the assist on fellow fifth-year teammate Ashley Alter's 1,000th career point. ... Grabbed her 500th career rebound on Dec. 17 at home against Stanislaus State, and pulled down No. 600 on March 3 in the GNAC Tournament semifinals against Western Washington on March 3, the final game of her career. She finished with 602. ... In her five seasons played in 119 of a possible 127 games, with 72 starts.

Senior (2021-22): Played in and started 29 of the 30 games. ... Averaged team highs of 11.0 points and 6.6 rebounds (tied for No. 9 in the GNAC on the boards).. ... Shot 43.9 percent from the field (119 of 271), highest among the starters and second-highest on the team. ... Scored a career-high 18 points against Hawaii Pacific on Nov. 15, matching that on Jan. 1 at Alaska Fairbanks. ... Hit the first 3-pointer of her career in the game against the Nanooks. Finished the season with 5 makes from downtown. ... Pulled down a then career-high 12 rebounds at home against Northwest Nazarene on Dec. 4, then topped it with 13 at Western Washington on Feb. 3. ... Double-doubled in both of those games, with 17 points against the Nighthawks and 13 against the Vikings. ... Had two other double-doubles for the season, giving her six for her career. ...  On Jan. 6 at home against Simon Fraser, scored her 500th career point. Then logged her 600th on Feb. 15 at home against Western Washington. ... Among SPU's regulars, led the team in free throw shooting at .815 (75 of 92), ranking No. 5 in the conference. ... Led the team with 18 blocked shots.

Junior (2021): Played in 14 games with 7 starts during the pandemic-shortened season, averaging 24.9 minutes per game. ... Posted a double-digit scoring average for the first time in her career at 10.0 points per game. That was exactly double her 5.0 average as a sophomore in 2019-30. ... Also averaged a career-best 6.4 rebounds, leading the team with 90, of which 30, also a team high, came at the offensive end. ... Recorded the first two double-doubles of her career, going for 11 points and 10 rebounds at home against Saint Martin's on Jan. 15, then 14 points and 11 rebounds at home against Northwest University on Feb. 10. ... Shot .500 or better from the field in 8 of her 14 games. ... Had career-best numbers at the free throw line in makes (42), attempts (57) and percentage (.737). That included the 100th make of her career when she went 2 of 3 against Western Washington in the season finale.

Sophomore (2019-20): Played in 24 of the 28 games, with 8 starts, averaging 18 minutes per game. ... Hit a buzzer-beater at Western Oregon on Feb. 13 to give the Falcons a come-from-behind 55-53 victory. ... Posted the team's second-highest field goal percentage of the season at .484 (45 of 93). ... Tied her career high with 11 points at Alaska Anchorage on Feb. 1, then broke it seven days later with 16 points at Simon Fraser. ... Made it a 100-rebound season with 5 against Central Washington in the finale on Feb. 29.  ... Scored her 100th career point on Dec. 19 against Academy of Art in Seattle, and her 200th on Feb. 22 at home against Montana State Billings. ... Had four games of shooting in the .500s, three in the .600s, and three in the .700s. ... Improved her free throw shooting by 92 percentage points, climbing to .714 after hitting .622 as a freshman.

Freshman (2018-19): Played in 24 of the 27 games, all in a reserve role, averaging 12.6 minutes per game. ... Averaged 3.7 points and 2.6 rebounds per game. ... Scored a career-high 11 points -- her first double-digit game in college -- at Montana State Billings on Jan. 5. ... In just her third college game, pulled down 12 rebounds on Nov. 16 against Azusa Pacific. ... In that same game, had career highs of 3 assists and 4 blocked shots. ... Of her 8 steals for the season, came up with a career-high 4 at Concordia Irvine on Dec. 19. ... Shot .492 from the field for the season, hitting 30 of 61.

Southridge High School: Helped the Skyhawks win back-to-back Class 6A (large school) Oregon state championships as a junior in 2017 and as a senior in 2018. ... Team was ranked No. 16 nationally in 2018.  ... All-State and All-League in 2018. ... All-League in 2015, '16, and '17. ... McDonald's All-American nominee in 2018. ... Named to Iolani Classic and Nike Shootout all-tournament teams as a senior. ... Southridge and Valley Times Female Athlete of the Year for 2017-18. ... Selected for Oregon-Washington all-star game in 2018. ... Also starred on the volleyball court. In the fall of 2017, helped Southridge win the 6A state volleyball title, winning all five of its tournament matches - including the final - in three-game sweeps. ... 3-time All-League in volleyball.

Personal: Natalie Irene Hoff. ... Visual communications major.

Fun facts: Has played basketball for 12 years prior to arriving at SPU. ... In addition to basketball and volleyball, has done track (shot put, discus, and javelin). ... If not for basketball, would focus on volleyball. ... Favorite sports to watch are tennis and beach volleyball. ... Books she just couldn't put down are any from the "Harry Potter" series. ... Favorite junk food is vanilla ice cream. ... Favorite healthy food is avocados. ... Favorite TV program is "One Tree Hill." ... Favorite sports team is the Portland Trail Blazers. ... Favorite athletes are basketball stars Kevin Durant and Elena Delle Donne. ... Loves to shop for clothes and shoes. ... Easiest subjects in school are P.E. and English. ... Toughest subject is math. ... If she could invite anyone to dinner, it wold be Beyonce' and Blue Ivy. ... If she could be any action hero or heroine, would be the Black Panther "because he can do just about everything and Ilike that movie." ... Her friends call her Hoff. ... In 10 years, hopes to be traveling to different places, experiencing new food and people, and living with her three kittens. ... Lived in three different countries before the age of 8, as her father played professional basketball in Germany, France, and South Korea. She would like to go back to those places at some point in the future.


STATISTICS
Year  GP    FG    Pct   3-pt   Pct    FT     Pct.   Reb   Avg   PF  Ast   TO  Blk  Stl  Pts   Avg
18-19 24  30-61  .492   0-3   .000   28-45   .622    62   2.6   31   12   17   10    8   88   3.7
19-20 24  45-93  .484   0-2   .000   30-42   .714   104   4.3   50   31   38    6    8  120   5.0
20-21 14  49-109 .450   0-6   .000   42-57   .737    90   6.4   23   19   24    8   16  140  10.0
21-22 29 119-271 .439   5-23  .217   75-92   .815   192   6.6   62   28   49   18   19  318  11.0
22-23 28 108-258 .419   5-21  .238   81-98   .827   154   5.5   47   41   47   21   24  302  10.8
TOTL 119 351-792 .443  10-55  .182  256-334  .766   602   5.1  213  131  175   63   75  968   8.1