Lindsey Berg Video Interview, U.S. Olympic Volleyball Captain

Lindsey Berg, 32, captained the U.S. Women’s Volleyball team to a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics. Team USA fell to Brazil in the gold medal game, a crushing defeat considering the Americans entered the Olympics ranked No. 1 in the world and had won every match in the 2012 Olympic play leading up to the defeat. However, a second straight silver medal remains a tremendous accomplishment for Team USA after their silver finish in Beijing four years ago.

“I think that if there’s any pressure, it’s pressure that we’re putting on ourselves,” Berg told Uinterview in an exlcusive video interview at the time. “We always feel the support of everyone out there, and obviously gold is always our goal, and if we didn’t want that and didn’t put the pressure on ourselves, I don’t think that would be okay.”

Growing up in Honolulu, Hawaii, Berg was an avid surfer in addition to being a star on the volleyball court at Punahou High School, which is ranked the No. 1 high school athletics program in the nation by Sports Illustrated and is also the former high school of U.S. President Barack Obama. Berg accepted a volleyball scholarship to the University of Minnesota, where she would go on to be named First Team All-Big Ten three times in her Gopher Career. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in Business and Marketing. Berg has also played professionally in Italy in the Italian Series A League.

A member of both the 2004 and 2008 Women’s Olympic Teams, the London Games marked Berg’s first Olympics as team captain. Heading into the games, Berg understood the magnitude of such a title, but believed it wouldn’t change her role as a teammate.

“I’m a leader no matter what on the court,” Berg told Uinterview exclusively. “It’s what’s inside of me. I don’t know how to not help people, not lead people, but it’s a great honor to be named captain and it’s a great honor to lead this team.”

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