Natalie Winkelfoos was named Delta Lodge Director of Athletics and Physical Education in December of 2012. Winkelfoos, who is a member of the President's Executive Leadership Team, was promoted to Associate Vice President for Athletics Advancement and Delta Lodge Director of Athletics & Physical Education in February of 2017.
Named the Division III Administrator of the Year by Women Leaders in Sports in 2015 and Under Armour AD of the Year in 2018, Winkelfoos inherited a department that was in the early stages of a capital campaign during which she has collaborated with the office of development to raise approximately $30 million dollars to date that has built the Austin E. Knowlton Athletics Complex and Patricia '63 & Merrill '61 Shanks Health and Wellness Center, which opened in the fall of 2018. She has a proven track record of generating support for the department through her work with the John W. Heisman Club. Since she began managing the organization, the total number of donors and money raised has increased each year.
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She holds memberships in the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics, the National Association of Athletic Development Directors, the National Association of Division III Athletics Administrators and Women Leaders in College Sports.
A proud former NCAA Division III athlete, Winkelfoos was a four-year letter winner on the Baldwin Wallace University basketball team. A two-time All-Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) selection, she is the school’s all-time leader in three-point field goal percentage. During her career she helped the Yellow Jackets accumulate over 100 wins and led them to two conference titles and three appearances in the NCAA Tournament.
She graduated from Baldwin-Wallace while going on to earn a master’s degree in higher education administration and student personnel at Kent State University. She was inducted into the Baldwin Wallace University Athletics Hall of Fame, the Bucyrus High School Hall of Fame along with the Crawford County Sports Hall of Fame.
