In 2020, Natalie won Eclipse Awards in both writing categories for stories on Thoroughbred aftercare featured in the Paulick Report. The winning entry in the Feature/Commentary category was titled, ‘“An Angel On His Shoulder”: This Thoroughbred’s Fate Was Written In Ink.” The winner in the News/Enterprise category was a multi-part series on the state of Thoroughbred aftercare. Read Part 1 of the series here.
Natalie won the 2016 Eclipse Award for News/Enterprise Writing for her feature titled, 'Something's Wrong With My Brain: Lurking Danger Of Concussions For Jockeys,' which appeared on the Paulick Report.
In 2022, she received an honorable mention in the Feature/Commentary category of the Eclipse Awards for ‘After Rough Entry To The World “Gumbo” The Colt Is Overcoming The Odds.’
In 2024, she received another honorable mention in the Feature/Commentary category of the Eclipse Awards for ‘Never Felt So Calm: After Divine Intervention, Trevor McCarthy Taking Break From The Saddle.’ She was also given an honorable mention in the USHWA media awards for harness racing for ‘Former Indiana Commission Employee Blows the Whistle on What He Says Was Lax Enforcement.’
In 2019, she was honored with the Charles W. Engelhard Award for outstanding racing journalism by the Kentucky Thoroughbred Association-Kentucky Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders.
Natalie was nominated once in 2015 and a record four times in 2016 for the Stanley Bergstein Writing Award for investigative reporting. She has twice received third place in the Kentucky Press Association Awards in the best sports feature category for "Keeneland's switch back to dirt could appeal to Breeders' Cup and Derby contenders" and in 2011 for her feature titled, "For the love of horses."