Natalie Nuce has been on staff with Athletes in Action for 17 years. Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, she has served in many roles with AIA. Natalie started with AIA Sports Teams (specifically tennis and basketball) when the office was located in Colorado Springs before moving on to UCLA and the University of Georgia (her alma mater) to serve with the campus ministry. She also formerly served with leadership for Ultimate Training Camps and then moved to Xenia, Ohio, in 2000, to serve as the Associate National Campus Director. Presently, she is the National Women's Director, a role she has held the past five years.

What does your current role with AIA look like?
My current role entails caring for our staff women and pioneering initiatives to reach women in sport with the gospel.

What keeps you on staff with AIA?
Relationships with staff members and those we minister to. I mostly enjoy seeing God change lives.

Do you have a favorite memory with AIA while being on staff?
I don't know that I have just one . A funny one that solidified my "twin brother type" relationship with Doug Gotcher (National Campus Director) was when he and I were asked to fill in and participate in the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. one year in Colorado at Ultimate Training Camp. We both thought we were retired by then and our bodies were not prepared to undergo that kind of stress. Suffice it to say that neither of us practiced the AIA Principles well. In our rebellious state, we sat on the "hill" up at Horsetooth (a reservoir near Ft. Collins, Colorado) watching everyone else run Golgotha, going back and forth between what we "should" do. We ended up not doing it and coined a term for being rebellious as "on the hill." The past few years we joke that we don't have the luxury of going "on the hill" anymore because of being in leadership! Anyone that experienced us in that would have cracked up.

What do you love most about working with and ministering to women?
I love the relationships and getting the opportunity to serve them the best I can.  It is a privilege to be able to represent them on a leadership level and to help them find their gifts, passions and places of service.

How would those who best know you describe you?
Probably a person who gets things done, but those who know me best know there is much more to me than that.

If you could travel anywhere in the world where would you go and why?
I have traveled to a lot of places in the world, but I have to say that Barcelona captured my heart last summer on an AIA tour. The architecture, history, weather, food, etc., were incredible.