Natalie Burton

Professional career

Burton began her WNBL career with the West Coast Waves in the 2012–13 season, averaging 8.1 points and 5.4 rebounds in 24 games. The following season she averaged 6.8 points and 4.7 rebounds in 17 games for the Waves. She moved to the Melbourne Boomers for the 2014–15 season, averaging 7.0 points and 5.1 rebounds in 22 games. In April 2015 she signed with the Perth Lynx for the 2015–16 season, helping the team reach the WNBL Grand Final, where they lost 2–0 to the Townsville Fire; she averaged 6.0 points and 5.1 rebounds in 27 games.

She re-signed with the Lynx for the 2016–17 season and played her 100th WNBL game on 25 November 2016. She re-signed again for the 2017–18 season. In January 2018 she joined German team Herner TC for the remainder of the 2017–18 DBBL season, then returned for the 2018–19 season, helping the team win the DBBL championship and DBBL Cup. She joined Union Saint-Amand Porte du Hainaut of the French LFB for the 2019–20 season but left in December 2019 after nine games.

She played for the Sydney Uni Flames during the 2020 WNBL Hub season. In the NBL1 West, Burton played for the Perry Lakes Hawks and later the Warwick Senators. She helped the Senators win the NBL1 West championship in 2022 and the NBL1 National championship that same year. She returned to the Senators for the 2023 season and played her 200th SBL/NBL1 game in June 2023.

After the 2023 NBL1 West season she had a three-game stint with the Mainland Pouakai in New Zealand. She re-joined the Senators for the 2024 and 2025 seasons, helping them reach the NBL1 West Grand Final in 2025, where they lost 91–71 to the Cockburn Cougars.

National team career

Burton first played for Australia at the 2013 World University Games in Russia, where the team fell to the United States in the semi-finals before claiming bronze. She scored four points in that semi-final loss. That same year, she made her debut for the Australian Opals at the FIBA Oceania Championship.

In 2014, she helped the Opals earn a bronze medal at the FIBA World Championship. She also competed for the Opals at the 2015 FIBA Oceania Championship and at the 2016 Rio Olympics, where the team was eliminated in the quarter-finals. After that tournament, Burton was never invited back to an Opals training camp.

Did You Know?

• Burton was born in the Perth suburb of Stirling and attended Carine Senior High School.