2021-22 Women's Basketball Roster

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10 Rachel Berg

  • Position Guard
  • Height 5-9
  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Bellevue Christian
  • Hometown Bellevue, WA

Biography

SPU: Four-year letterwinner; five years with the program. ... GNAC All-Academic in 2020, 2021, and 2022. ... SPU Most Improved in 2017-18. ... GNAC Player of the Week on Jan. 25, 2021.

Senior (2021-22):  Played in 16 games with 10 starts. ... After rehabbing from a knee injury suffered during the summer of 2021, made her season debut on Jan. 22 at Montana State Billings, coming through with 9 points (all on 3 of 5 shooting from 3-point range), 2 rebounds, and 2 assists. ... Was nearly perfect at the free throw line for the season, hitting 10 of 11 (90.9 percent). ... Handed out a season-high 5 assists to help the Falcons rout Alaska Fairbanks in the first round of the GNAC Tournament, 78-48, at home in Brougham Pavilion. ... Hsnded out her 100th career assist on Jan. 27 at home against Alaska Fairbanks. ... 

Junior (2021): Played in and started all 14 games in the pandemic-shortened season. ... Averaged a career-high 11.1 points, finishing in double figures for the first time. ... Her 155 total points was more than she had in her first two seasons combined. ... Led the team in 3-point shooting at 42.6 percent (29 of 68), part of her career-best .425 overall mark from the field (51 of 120). ... Poured in a career-high 28 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the field (7 of 9 from downtown) in a 70-64 victory at Saint Martin's on Feb. 5. ... Set career highs for assists (5 vs Pacific Lutheran on Jan. 11) and blocked shots (3 vs. Northwest Nazarene on Feb. 19). ... Tied a career high with 6 rebounds at home against Saint Martin's on Jan. 16. ... Shot .500 or better from the field in seven games, including a stretch of five straight. ... Also had seven games of .500 or better shooting from 3-point range.

Sophomore (2019-20): Played all 28 games, starting 7, and averaging 19.9 minutes. ... Logged career-highs of 7 points and 4 assists in the season opener at Humboldt State on Nov. 8. ... Topped her scoring high with 8 points at home against Academy of Art on Dec. 19. ... Tied her assist total in two other games. ... Collected a career-high 6 rebounds against UC San Diego on Nov. 16, and matched that twice more. ... 

Redshirt freshman (2018-19): Played in 16 of the 27 games, all as a reserve, averaging 7.1 minutes. ... Scored a career-high 3 points at Simon Fraser on Feb. 14. ... Handed out a career-high 3 assists against Holy Names on Nov. 20. ... Concluded her first season with a career-high 3 rebounds at Concordia-Portland on March 2.

Freshman (2017-18): Redshirted.

Bellevue Christian High School: Nisqually League MVP as a senior in 2016-17, averaging 12.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, shooting 41 percent from the field, and leading Vikings to second straight league title. ... Helped team to 6th place in the Class 1A (small school) Washington state tournament in 2017. ... By scoring 15 points in a 44-33 state tourney victory against La Center on March 3, 2017, moved past 1,000 points for her career, finishing with 1,012. ... Named to state all-tournament 2nd team in 2017. ... All-Nisqually 1st team as a sophomore, junior, and senior. ... Voted to 2017 all-state senior team. ... Oregon City End of the Trail Tournament MVP in 2016. ... Also competed at the Class 1A state track & field meet in the pole vault for three years and the 100-meter hurdles for two years. ... Played varsity soccer all four years.

Personal: Rachel Ann Berg. ... Business Administration major.

Fun facts about Rachel: Also played soccer and ran track in high school. ... If not for basketball, would play volleyball or soccer. ... Favorite sports to watch other than basketball are football or volleyball. ... Dumbest movie she has ever seen is "Napoleon Dynamite." ... Book she just couldn't put down is "Fault in Our Stars." ... Favorite junk food is salt & vinegar chips. ... Favorite healthy foods are carrots and hummus. ... Favorite TV program is "Grey's Anatomy." ... Favorite sports team is the Cleveland Cavaliers. ... Favorite athlete is LeBron James. ... Her dream car is a Range Rover. ... Loves to shop for clothes. ... Easiest subject in school is math. ... Toughest subject is chemistry. ... If she could invite anyone to dinner, would invite Jesus "so I could ask him questions about the Bible and all the miracles he performed." She would serve "a nice steak dinner." ... If she could be any action hero, would be Spiderman "because it looks so fun, and he has such great reflexes." ... Her friends call her Rach. ... In 10 years, plans to be doing something in the medical field -- physician's assistant, sports medicine, or surgery. ... While she was at Disneyland, met the "Grey's Anatomy" character Alex Karev.


STATISTICS
Year  GP     FG   Pct    3-pt   Pct    FT     Pct.   Reb   Avg   PF  Ast   TO  Blk  Stl  Pts  Avg
18-19 16    2-17  .118   1-7   .143    8-10   .800    11   0.7    7   12    7   0     2   13  0.9

19-20 28   31-99  .313   7-34  .206   10-14   .714    72   2.6   31   51   56   1    12   79  2.8
20-21 14   51-120 .425  29-68  .426   24-28   .857    42   3.0   31   34   58   7    11  155 11.1

21-22 16   24-65  .369   8-33  .242   10-11   .909    20   1.3   16   22   16   1     7   66  4.1
TOTL  74  108-301 .359  45-142 .317   52-63   .825   145   1.9   85  119  137   9    32  313  4.2

 

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