Columbia University Athletics

2022-23 (Senior): (XC) Placed 6th overall at the Coaching Tree Invitational (Sept. 16) with a personal best time of 23:49.5 in the 8k … Top 10 finisher (8th) at Penn State National Open with a time of 25:11.7 in the 5.2m (Oct.14) … Finished 10th at Heps XC with an 8k time of 24:29.9 … Earned 3rd place in the NCAA Northeast Region XC Championship (Nov. 11) beating his personal record with a time of 29:26.2 (10k) … (ITF): Clocked one top-five finish over the indoor season … Finished 5th in the 5,000m at Heps TF with a time of 13:56.90 (Feb. 26-29) … Posted a 42nd place time of 13:41.30 at the 2022 Sharon Colyear Danville Season Opener in the 5,000m … Clocked a personal best in the 3,000m at the David Valentine Invite (Feb. 10-11) with a time of 7:54.55 and 23rd finish … (OTF): Tenth finisher in the 5,000m at the Ivy League Outdoor TF Championship with a time of 14:26.78 (May 6-7) … Competed for Columbia and placed 6th in the 5,000m at Yale’s Last Chance Meet (May 13)

- 2022 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field East Prelims Qualifier (10,000m)
- 2021 NCAA Cross Country Championships Qualifier
- 2021 Second Team All-Ivy League (XC)
- 2021 Academic All-Ivy League (XC)
- 2019 First Team All-Ivy League (XC)

2021-22 (Junior): (XC) Earned an at-large bid to run at the NCAA Cross Country Championships (Nov. 20) ... Posted a time of 30:59.5 (10K) at the NCAA XC Championships ... Top finisher for the Columbia men at Ivy League Heps (Oct. 30), finishing 11th ... Clocked a personal best 8K time of 24:11.1 at Heps ... Earned Second Team All-Ivy League and Academic All-Ivy League honors ... Posted top finish of season with seventh place finish at the Stony Brook Invite (Sept. 4), clocking a 6K time of 19:26.9 ... Finished 10th at the Princeton Cross Country Invite (Oct. 16) with a time of 24:39.4 (8K) ... (ITF) Clocked three top-five finishes over the indoor season ... Finished fourth at the Ivy League Indoor Track & Field Heps (Feb. 26-27) in the 5,000m with a personal best time of 13:49.27 ... Posted a second-place time of 14:06.06 in the 5,000m at the Dr. Sander Columbia Challenge (Feb. 4-5) ... Crossed in third-place at the Yale-Dartmouth-Columbia (Jan. 22) meet with a 3,000m time of 8:16.11 ... (OTF) Qualified for the NCAA Track & Field Eastern Prelims (May 25-28) in the 10,000m ... Ran qualifiying time in the 10,000m at the Virginia Challenge with a time of 28:55.99, finishing sixth ... Ran a 30:36.03 in the 10,000m at the Eastern Prelims ... Clocked a time of 30:00.07 in the 10,000m at the Ivy League Outdoor Track & Field Heps (May 7-8).

2020-21 (Sophomore): Season canceled (COVID-19)

2019-20 (First-Year): (XC) Locked up the best finish by a first-year in program history at the Ivy League Cross Country Heps (Nov. 1) with a fourth-place finish in the 5-Mile Run with a personal record time of 24:46.4, earning First-Team All-Ivy honors in the process ... Was Columbia's second-best finisher in the 8K at the Roy Griak Invitational (Sept. 28), clocking a 16th place time of 25:11.6 ... Won the IC4A/ECAC Cross Country Championships (Nov. 23) with a winning time of 24:52.0 in the 5M ... Set a PR in the 8K with a time of 24:37.7 at the Nuttycombe Invitational (Oct. 18) ... Ran a PR time of 29:42.6 in the 10K, coming in 37th as the second best Columbia finisher at the NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Championships (Nov. 15). (Indoor) Did not compete in any events. (Outdoor) Season canceled.

High School: Four-time letterwinner in cross country and indoor and outdoor track at Burnt HIlls-Ballston Lake Senior High School in Burnt Hills, New York ... 2018 Class B New York State Champion in cross country ... Two-time Indoor All-American in the 5,000-Meter Run (2019) and the 4xMile Relay (2019) ... 2017 Nike Cross Nationals individual qualifier and a member of the 2018 squad that qualified for the Nike Cross Nationals ... Three-time Cross Country All-New York State ... Member of three New York State Class B Championship (2016-18) teams ... Runner-up at the 2018 Nike Cross Country New York Regionals ... Holds cross country records at Tawasentha Town Park Course and Baldwinsville High School Course ... Set a top seven all-time mark at the McQuaid Cross Country Invitational (2018) and a top five all-time mark at the Saratoga State Park Cross Country Course ... Won three Section 2 Class B Indoor Track championships in the 3,200m ... Finished third in the 3,200m at the 2019 New York State Indoor Track Championships ... Four-time member of the Principal's Honor Roll ... Member of the National Honor Society, National Science Honor Society and the National Math Honor Society.

Personal: Born, Tyler Logan Berg, on Sept. 2, 2000, in Niskayuna, New York ... Son of Eric and Kari Berg ... Has two younger siblings, Anthony (16) and Emily (15) ... Comes from an athletic family, father played baseball at LeMoyne College (1992-95); Mother played lacrosse at SUNY Brockport (1992-95) ... Laurel Botsford (aunt) played field hockey at Pacific (1987) and Cornell (1988-90) and Richard Berg (uncle) played baseball at LeMoyne College (1984-87) and professionally in the minor leagues from 1987-91 ... Aunt, Botsford, graduated from Cornell as a part of the Class of 1990 ... Views brother Anthony, who has Down Syndrome, as a role model because "he has never let anything stop him from doing whatever he desires" ... Would want to meet Alexander the Great ... Received recruiting attention from fellow Ivy League member Cornell along with Stanford and Villanova ... Picked Columbia because "three reasons, the team, the computer science program and the mixture of cultures and the pace that comes with living in New York City" ... Attending Columbia College ... Plans on majoring in Computer Science.

Career Bests

10K (XC) - 29:42.6
NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Cross Country Championships - Nov. 15, 2019
5M (XC) - 24:46.4
Ivy League Cross Country Heps - Nov. 1, 2019
8K (XC) - 24:11.1
Ivy League Cross Country Heps - Oct. 30, 2021
3.73m (XC) - 19:26.9
Stony Brook Invite - Sept. 4, 2021
3000m (Indoor) - 8:16.11
Yale-Dartmouth-Columbia - Jan. 22, 2022
5000m (Indoor) - 13:49.27
Ivy League Indoor Heps - Feb. 26-27, 2022
10000m (Outdoor) - 28:55.99
Virginia Challenge - Apr. 22-23, 2022