Northwestern women’s program hires FAU’s Kyle Berg as new assistant coach

The Northwestern Wildcats have a new assistant coach to go with their new head coach on the women’s side, as Florida Atlantic’s Kyle Berg will make the jump to Evanston, Illinois.

The program officially announced the hiring this morning.

Berg will join a new-look coaching staff at Northwestern, with the Wildcats hiring on Nevada’s Abby Steketee to replace the outgoing Jimmy Tierney as women’s head coach.

Berg spent the past year at Florida Atlantic University, where he just won the highly-prestigious Jean Freeman Scholarship, an honor given to just one male and one female assistant coach in the NCAA’s Division I each year. The award is given to a coach whose “leadership, integrity, honesty, competitive attitude and personal graciousness epitomizes those characteristics reflected by Jean Freeman,” (per Berg’s bio on the Florida Atlantic site). Freeman was a legendary coach of the women’s program at Minnesota within the Big Ten, the conference Berg will now join.

Prior to that, Berg coached at Kenyon, one of the nation’s premier Division III powerhouses. There, he coached under longtime Kenyon leader Jim Steen, and served as recruiting coordinator.

He also has a club background with STAR Aquatics in Greensboro, North Carolina, and was a collegiate swimmer at Boston University, graduating in 2010.

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tallswimmer
8 years ago

Anybody know where Evan Bernier is headed? Not listed at Wisconsin anymore, but seemed to be having success there.

Neil Caskey was just hired on, but they still have a position open after losing Beth Botsford last year…

tallswimmer
Reply to  tallswimmer
8 years ago

Edit:

Meant to say:

Not Northwestern, but B1G related…

Anybody know where Evan Bernier is headed? Not listed at Wisconsin anymore, but seemed to be having success there. Neil Caskey was just hired on, but they still have a position open after losing Beth Botsford last year…

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