Stephanie Berger

McKissick Scholar
Capstone Scholar
2012-13 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

2015: Indoor Track – Competed in the 3K and 5K… opened the season with a win in the 5K at the Orange and Purple Classic (17:53.93)… ran her best 5K of the season to finish 11th at the Armory Invite (17:38.26)… Outdoors – Continued in the distance events… ran a 10:21.26 3K to take sixth at the Bill Carson Invite… ran 18:15.57 in the 5K at the Penn Relays… ran the 5k at the SEC Championships, finishing 43rd with a time of 18:23.29.

2014 Cross Country (Junior):Competed in six events for the Gamecocks, recording three top-10 finishes and one win… opened the season with a first-place race in the Carolina Invitational 5K, finishing in 19:00.65 for her first collegiate win (8/30)… shaved four seconds off her previous time just two weeks later at the USC Open #1, finishing fourth with a time of 18:56.52 (9/13)… helped to lead USC to a team title at the Charlotte Invitational 6K, placing eighth overall with a time of 22:36.5 (9/26)… clocked a time of 22:16.3 at the SEC Championship, good for 87… placed 101st with a time of 22:16 at the Southeast Regional.^th (10/31).

Top 5K Time: 18:24.04 (at Crimson Classic)
Top 6K Time: 21:54 (at Paul Short Invite Gold)

2013 Track & Field (Freshman):Named to the 2012-13 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll … Posted her top indoor 3K time of 10:35.66 at the Gamecock Indoor Invitational … Ran the 5K outdoors four times, posting a third-place showing with a 18:17.65 in the Weems Baskin Invite at home.

2013 Cross Country (Sophomore): Ran in seven races, ranking in the Gamecocks’ top five on five occasions … Posted a career-best 18:04.5 5K time and finished in 15th overall at the Royal XC Challenge in Charlotte … After cutting over 40 seconds off her previous-best 6K time in the Mountain Dew Invitational (23:02.35), she lowered it twice more in two of the final three races of the season … First broke the 23-minute mark at the Indiana State Pre-National Invite White Race with a 22:50.47 timing … Lowered her time three more seconds to 22:47.3 in the NCAA Southeast Regional hosted by Virginia, finishing 122nd … In between, she ranked third on the team with an 86th-place finish in the Southeastern Conference Championships (22:56.06) … Also ran in the Carolina Challenge and Roy Griak Invitational.

2012 Cross Country (Freshman): Competed in three races as a true freshman … Ranked second on the team in the Queens Royal Challenge in Charlotte, posting her best time of the fall at 19:18.40 … Tallied a top 6K time in the Charlotte Invitational, coming in at 23:43.45.

High School: Collected six varsity letters at Northwestern High School, four in track and two in cross country … Upon graduation, owned school records in the 1600-meter run, 3200-meter run and 5000-meter run … Member of the National Honor Society … Earned a NSLI-Y scholarship to study abroad in Russia for a year.

Personal: Majoring in international business.