University of South Alabama Athletics

2020: Outdoor – Did not compete. Indoor – Earned Academic All-District honors and was voted second-team Academic All-America® … Earned top-three finishes in all five pentathlon events: 60m hurdles (8.90s), high jump (1.68m), shot put (12.14m), long jump (5.82m) and won the 800m (2:22.10)  to place second in the Sun Belt Championships pentathlon (4,021 points) … Took seventh place in the long jump (5.70m) and 11th in the high jump (1.59m) at the Sun Belt Championships … Placed sixth at the 2020 Samford Bulldog Invitational shot put (12.63m) … Won the Jaguar Invitational long jump (5.80m) and claimed second in the high jump with a 1.69m mark … Finished eighth at the 60m hurdles at the Samford January Invitational (9.24s) … Holds the records for the school and the Sun Belt in the heptathlon and pentathlon.

2019: Outdoor— Scored 5,493 heptathlon points and claimed second-team All-America recognition at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships; ran a personal-best 2:18.13 in the 800m at the same meet … Set the Sun Belt heptathlon record (5,718 points) at the 92nd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, recording career-best marks in the long jump (5.98m, eighth in program history) and shot put (12.53m) … Won her third consecutive conference heptathlon title and first-team all-Sun Belt honors after scoring 5,341 points and finishing in the top four in every event … Took first place in the South Alabama Invitational 100m hurdles (14.18 seconds) and high jump (1.79m, tied for second in the USA record books) … Claimed victories in the 100m hurdles (14.38 seconds) and long jump (5.93m) at Samford’s Alabama Track Challenge. Indoor— Scored 4,203 points and took 10th place to earn second-team All-America honors, break her own Sun Belt Conference pentathlon record and tie the all-time USA high jump mark (1.78m) at the NCAA Division I Indoor Championships … Was voted Sun Belt Indoor Women’s Field Most Outstanding Performer after contributing 28 of the team’s 69 points, setting a new league pentathlon standard with 4,079 points and winning the individual long jump competition with a 6.03m mark (second in USA program history) at the conference championships … Finished in the top three in all five events to win the LSU Bayou Bengal Invitational pentathlon (3,970 points).
 
2018: Outdoor— Finished 19th in the NCAA Division I Championships heptathlon with a total of 5,314 points … Qualified for the NCAA Division I East Region Preliminary Round high jump competition, where she tied for 28th with a 1.70m mark … Set new USA and SBC heptathlon records after scoring 5,632 points at the Sun Belt Conference Championships, including a first-place finish in the high jump (1.75m) and second-place finishes in the 100m hurdles (14.00 seconds) and long jump (5.80m) … Earned 5,479 points to finish second in the Tiger Track Classic heptathlon, including a win in the 800m run (2:23.96) … Won the Jaguar Classic long jump with a 5.64m effort and finished second in the 100m hurdles with a time of 14.21 seconds. Indoor— Placed fourth in the Sun Belt Conference Championships high jump after clearing a height of 1.76m … Took second in the Samford Invite high jump (1.75m) and third in the long jump (5.43m).  
 
2017: Outdoor— At the Sun Belt Championships, won the heptathlon with a career-best score of 5,382 points and placed ninth in the 400m hurdles … Won the South Alabama Invitational heptathlon with a score of 5,258 points … Won the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:04.31 at the Jaguar Classic and placed fifth in the javelin with a mark of 36.99m. Indoor— Won the Sun Belt Championships pentathlon with a score of 3,947 points, the second-best performance in Jaguar history; placed fifth in the long jump (5.95m) and sixth in the 60m hurdles (8.77 seconds) ... Placed third in the South Alabama Invitational long jump with a 5.71m effort ... Won the Samford Multi indoor pentathlon in her first-ever collegiate performance.

High School: In addition to track & field, participated in basketball and volleyball at Kristiansand Katedralskole Gimle in Vest-Agder, Norway ... Was the Norwegian Junior Champion in long jump and heptathlon.

Personal: Full name is Gunn Emilie Berge … Born Dec. 7, 1997, in Iveland, Norway … Daughter of Oeystein and Tone Kristin Berge ... Has one brother, Frode, and two sisters, Mai Brit and Kristine ... Favorite movie is “Suicide Squad” ... Favorite book is “The Hunger Games” ... Favorite food is fish ... Favorite athlete is Daphne Skipper, a track athlete from the Netherlands … Enjoys music and playing other sports.

Major: Biology