University of Minnesota Athletics
Lindsey Berg to be Inducted into USA Volleyball Hall of Fame
3/18/2025 1:45:00 PM | Volleyball
The Gopher great played at Minnesota from 1998-2001
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Minnesota volleyball great Lindsey Berg (1998-01) will be one of six legendary athletes to be inducted into the USA Volleyball Hall of Fame during the annual banquet and ceremony on May 21 at the Hilton Denver City Center in Colorado.
Honored with the All-Time Great Athlete Award are Kerri Walsh Jennings, Mike Dodd, Lindsey Berg, Tayyiba Haneef-Park, Tom Hoff, and David Lee—two beach and four indoor volleyball icons.
The Hall of Fame ceremony takes place just two days before the 2025 USA Volleyball Open National Championship begins at the Denver Convention Center.
To receive the All-Time Great Athlete Award, an athlete must have played at least five years on a U.S. national team and competed in a minimum of five top-level international events—including the Olympic Games, FIVB World Championship, FIVB World Cup, or NORCECA Championship.
One of the U.S. Women's National Team's greatest setters, Berg played in three Olympic Games, winning silver in 2008 and 2012. She joined the national team in 2003, earning Best Setter honors at the NORCECA Championship and Pan American Cup. A 2008 Olympic co-captain and two-time USA Volleyball Female Indoor Athlete of the Year, she started in seven of eight matches at the 2012 Olympics. She ranks in the top 10 for both assists and aces at the University of Minnesota.
She was inducted into the M Club Hall of Fame at Minnesota in 2012. During her Gopher career, Berg helped lead Minnesota to a pair of Big Ten runner-up finishes and NCAA Regional appearances in 1999 and 2000. In 2000, she helped lead the Gophers to a remarkable 30-4 overall record and their highest winning percentage in school history at .882.
Berg went on to become the first player from the Minnesota volleyball program to make the U.S. Olympic team in 2004, followed up that appearance with as a member of the USA's 2008 Olympics squad and is projected to be the starting setter in the 2012 London Olympic games. She has also been twice named USA Volleyball Indoor Female Athlete of the Year, winning the award in 2008 and 2011, and in 2011 was inducted into the Hawaii Sports Hall of Fame.