Tom Berg

Tom Berg is entering his fourth season as sports information coordinator at the University of South Dakota in 2011-12. Berg arrived at USD in Sept. 2008 after spending more than a decade in the sports journalism field.

Berg spent 10 years on the sports staff at the Marshall Independent in Marshall, Minn., including seven years as sports editor from 2000-07. During his time as sports editor, Berg won 10 writing awards from the Minnesota Associated Press Sports Writers Association (MAPSA), including five first-place honors. In addition, he supervised a sports department that received first-place honors from MAPSA in the general excellence category, and the Independent sports staff was a two-time winner of the Minnesota Newspaper Association’s Sports Reporting Award (2003 and 2005) under Berg’s guidance.

Berg received his bachelor’s degree in speech communication: radio and television from Southwest Minnesota State in 1999.