Lisa Berg enters her third season on the Bethel women’s soccer coaching staff, helping the Royals to their first ever MIAC Playoff berth in her first year at Bethel. Prior to Bethel, Berg was most recently the head coach at Century College in White Bear Lake, Minn., after spending three years as a research assistant and part-time lecturer at Texas Tech University. Berg started her collegiate coaching career as a volunteer assistant coach at the University of Minnesota, where she was a Scholar Athlete and member of the All-Academic Big Ten Team (2003) during her four-year playing career with the Gophers. She then moved on to Arkansas State University where she was the top assistant for the NCAA DI Red Wolves for three years.
Coach Berg has been involved with several non-profit organizations helping to train youth coaches of at-risk children in Africa. She has spent time over the last 6 years developing soccer for females and mentoring coaches in Uganda, Swaziland, Kenya, South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Zanzibar as the assistant director of the International Sport Connection. Since 2011 Coach Berg has been a technical adviser and assistant coach for the Uganda women’s national soccer team. In addition she coached the Ugandan women’s U20 national team to a victory over South Sudan in 2013 and coached the team against DR Congo and Egypt in 2011 and 2012. Coach Berg had the honor of presenting about her Growing the Game for Girls in Uganda Program at the 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup Girl Power in Play Symposium in Ottawa, Canada. The G3 Program is aimed at developing change for girls and women in Uganda through soccer with the vision to create and connect these females to opportunities through sport. The conference focused on the power of girls’ involvement in sport, ways to get girls playing and how sport can be used to better their lives.
Coach Berg has also been involved with the U.S. Olympic Development Program in Minnesota, Arkansas and Texas as a coach and tryout evaluator. Berg holds a USSF National “B” Coaching License and NSCAA Goalkeeper Diploma I & II. She earned her Master of Science in Exercise & Sports Psychology with a Certificate in Leadership from Texas Tech University and her Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology with minors in Spanish and Chemistry from the University of Minnesota.
