A two-time Conference USA Player of the Year selection (1995 & 1996) for USF volleyball, Berggren was a dominant force at middle blocker for the Bulls as she earned four first-team all-conference selections while helping lead USF to a 105-26 record (80.1 %), including 55-4 at home, and four postseason appearances during her career.
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Berggren helped lead the Bulls to three conference championships, winning the Conference USA Tournament in 1995 and 1996 and the Metro Conference regular-season title in her freshman season of 1993. The Bulls posted 23 or more wins in each of her four seasons, including 27-5 marks in both 1995 and 1996 (marking the fewest season losses in program history), as she led the team to postseason appearances in all four of her seasons, including three NCAA Tournament appearances (1993, 1995 and 1996) and hosting a first-round match vs. USC in 1996, and a 1994 NIVC appearance.
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Berggren remains USF’s career leader in hitting percentage (.415), total blocks (626) and block assists (488) and stands second all-time in solo blocks (185). Her 21 blocks vs. Cincinnati in 1995 stand as a program record as do her 15 block assists in that game, and she has two other game total block marks in the top six while owning three solo block game marks in the top four.
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Berggren owns the top four USF season marks for hitting percentage in program history, logging a season record .443 mark in 1993 while also posting marks of .433 (1994), .409 (1996) and .395. (1995). She posted 1,438 career kills to rank fifth on the Bulls’ all-time charts and her .909 hitting percentage vs. Cleveland State in 1994 is tied for the second-best game mark in program history.
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Berggren’s 171 total blocks in 1995 and 156 in 1994 rank fourth and ninth on the Bull’s season charts, while her 135 block assists in 1995 and 119 in 1996 stand third and 10
th, and her 39 solo blocks in 1994 and 36 in 1995 stand seventh and ninth.
Berggren was selected for induction in the USF Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2022.
