Hokie ClubClass: Junior
High School: Midlothian
Hometown: Midlothian, Va.
2007 Cross Country: First Tech men's cross country runner to ever be recognized as the Atlantic Coast Conference's Performer of the Week on Sept. 25 after winning the event title at the Lenoir-Rhyne Invitational with an 8k time of 26:47 ...Finished third at the Wake Forest Relays, teaming with James Scheiner for a combined time of 46:10 ... Ran 10k in 31:14.05 at the NCAA Southeast Regional for 38th place ... Earned 15th-place at the William & Mary Inter-Regional with an 8k effort of 25:04 ... 26th-place finisher at the Chile Pepper Invitational at a time of 31:09 ... Ran 27:00 8k time for 79th-place at the ACC Championships.
2007 Outdoor: Anchored school record-setting 4x1,500-meter relay that ran in 15:41.32 to take first place at Tennessee's Sea Ray Relays ... Earned 22nd place at the NCAA Championships in the 1,500-meter race, with a time of 3:47.50 ... Finished fifth in the 1,500-meter race at the NCAA East Regional Championship with a time of 3:43.02 ... All-ACC in the 800-meter run with a personal best of 1:49.51 ... Recorded personal-best 1,500-meter time of 3:41.88 to win the event at the Vanderbilt Twilight II ... Led off 4x400-meter relay that took first place at the Liberty Twilight ... Broke nine-year-old Matthes-Hopkins Track Complex record in the 1,500-meter at the Liberty Twilight Qualifier, with a 3:48.63 time ... Captured first place in the 800-meters at the Duke Invitational (1:52.80).
2007 Indoor: Broke a 20-year school record in the mile with a personal-best mile of 4:06.74 for second place at the VT Challenge ... Was sixth-place finisher in the mile at the ACC Championships with a time of 4:07 ... Recorded a then-personal best in the 800-meter run with a 1:50.15 time to earn first place at the Last Chance Invitational ... At the same meet, took the event title in the 1,000-meter race with a personal-best time of 2:26.79 ... Led off distance medley relay that finished second (10:15.14) at the VT Challenge.
2006 Cross Country: Finished 24th at the ACC Championships with an 8k time of 25:23 ... Placed 31st at the William & Mary Inter-Regional in 27:32 ... Took 68th place at the Chile Pepper Invitational with a time of 31:17.1.
2006 Outdoor: Finished third in the 1,500-meter race at the Florida State Relays with a time of 3:56.12 ... Had a personal-best time of 1:52.69 in his seventh-place performance at the Lou Onesty Invitational in the 800-meters ... Advanced to the finals of the 1,500-meter race at the ACC Championships with a time of 3:54.60 ... Recorded a personal-best time of 3:48.67 in the finals, placing fourth.
2006 Indoor: Was 17th in the 1,000-meter with a time of 2:33.38 at the Virginia Tech Invitational ... Was 10th in the 800-meter at the Penn State Open with a time of 1:55.17 ... Was part of the sixth-place distance medley relay team at the PSU Open with a time of 10:13.19 ... Placed 11th in the mile at the ACC Championships with a time of 4:18.61 ... Ran the mile in a personal-best time of 4:12.52 for fourth place at the Virginia Tech Last Chance meet.
2005 Cross Country: Placed 10th at the VT Alumni Meet with a time of 25:54.01 .. Did not compete the rest of the season because of an injury.
2005 Outdoor: Redshirted.
2005 Indoor: Ran unattached at the Virginia Tech Last Chance meet, took third place in the mile with 4:13.32 and finished in 15th place in the 800-meters.
High School: Three-year letterwinner in track and two-year letterman in cross country at Midlothian High School under coach Stan Morgan ... Named team MVP and captain for track ... Was only athlete in Virginia to earn all-state honors in all five distance events (800, 1,000, 1,600, 3,200-meter races and cross country) in 2004 ... Finished third in the outdoor 1,500-meter race with a personal record time of 4:03.87 at the 2004 Victor Cahoo Track Classic ... Had an outdoor 1,600-meter best of 4:21.36 for third place at the 2004 Central Region meet ... At the 2004 Gar-Field Invite, clocked 1:55.86 for third place in the outdoor 800-meters ... Was the 2004 central region indoor 4x800-meter relay and 1,000-meter (2:34.23) champion ... Finished third in the indoor 1,000-meter run with a then-personal-best time of 2:31.17 at the 2004 VHSL AAA state meet ... Midlothian, Dominion District, Central Region and Ashe Center record holder in the 1,000-meter race ... Was a two-time national champion in the 4xMile relay at NIC ... Was 18th of 211 runners with 4:29.77 in the indoor 1,600-meter race at the 2004 Microtel Invitational ... Named cross country team MVP and led team to the 2003 state AAA championship title ... Earned all-district, all-region, all-state and all-south cross country honors ... SCA representative and named to the Distinguished Honor Roll.
Personal: Born April 7, 1986 in Richmond, Va. ... Son of Russell and Beverly Berlin ... His grandfather, Harold Robert Berlin, is Lehigh University's record holder in cross country two mile ... Uncle, Don, was the Virginia state champion in the backstroke ... Business information technology major.
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