Tony Na­tali Fills Ath­letic Di­rec­tor Po­si­tion

MISHAWAKA— Bethel Col­lege has found some­one to fill Tom Visker’s role of Ath­letic Di­rec­tor next year – Tony Na­tali. Un­der Na­tali, the track pro­gram has flour­ished, earn­ing 10 NC­CAA team na­tional Cham­pi­onships and 7 in­di­vid­ual NAIA na­tional ti­tles.  

In this new po­si­tion, Na­tali will over­see all 29 in­ter­col­le­giate sports here at Bethel Col­lege. He will have the plea­sure of kick­ing off the Swim­ming and Bowl­ing teams and he will be the first Ath­letic Di­rec­tor of the newly branded Bethel Uni­ver­sity.  

There is one ques­tion that many have had: will Na­tali stop coach­ing the track team as the Ath­letic Di­rec­tor?  

Un­for­tu­nately, he will be step­ping away from his role of coach in or­der to fill the Ath­letic Di­rec­tor role. How­ever, Na­tali has big plans for Bethel Uni­ver­sity Ath­let­ics. In his of­fi­cial state­ment he said, “My vi­sion is to have a Christ-cen­tered de­part­ment that puts our tremen­dou stu­dent-ath­lete pop­u­la­tion in a po­si­tion to have the best pos­si­ble ex­pe­ri­ence they could have here at Bethel.” 

Na­tali will as­sume the po­si­tion of Ath­letic Di­rec­tor on Ju­ly1st.