Former professional player and All-Western Athletic Conference shortstop
Randi Berg is entering her fourth season leading the women's softball program at New Mexico Highlands University.
Berg played collegiately at Fresno State University ('94-'97) where she was a two-time All-Western Athletic Conference and All- NCAA West Region shortstop. She ended her Bulldog career as one of the programs all-time leaders in games played (No. 7 all-time). Berg also participated twice in the Olympic Sports Festival during her time at Fresno State.
Following graduation from Fresno State, Berg was selected in the second round of the Women's Professional Softball League and in 1999 was named the WPSL Defensive Player of the Year while playing for the Georgia Pride. The following year she helped lead the Florida Wahoos to the WPSL World Series championship. Berg continued to play at the highest levels of both the professional and Olympic ranks over the next several years. She participated in yet another Olympic Sports Festival, played on several teams that placed highly at the ASA National Championships and, in 2004 was again drafted in a second round- this time by the National Pro Fastpitch League. Berg concluded her professional playing with two years in the Professional Fastpitch Extreme Tour.
While she had split her time between playing and coaching during her professional career, including helping guide the Fresno Force to the ASA National Championship in 1997 and developing softball players throughout California as a lead instructor with major softball camps, Berg turned her attention to full-time coaching in 2011. Taking over a program that had seen just one winning season in the previous six years, Berg turned Santa Fe High School (CA) into a consistent winner and her teams established all-time school records in batting average, runs scored and extra base hits. Berg's teams hit over .320 three times during her seven years at the helm.
Berg was born in Whittier, California, to Harvey and Lynn Berg. She has two brothers and a twin sister, Laura, who is the current head softball coach at Oregon State and who won Olympic gold medals in 1996, 2000 and 2004 and silver medal in 2008 as a member of the USA team.