Kathy Berglund
Hazen High School
Impact Statement
Berglund coached Hazen’s Girls’ Golf teams to seven State Championships and nine Runner Up finishes.
Biography
Berglund was a lower-level basketball, volleyball and track and field coach team-teaching sixth-grade science, English and reading at Hazen Middle School before agreeing in the early 1990s to help her husband, Darrell, who at the time was the head coach of both the boys’ and girls’ golf teams.
In 1996 she became the head coach of the girls’ team and the rest is history. Hazen’s girls won the first of seven Class B state titles on Kathy Berglund’s resume. That includes back-to-back titles the past two seasons. Her teams also have finished second in the state five times, third once and sixth once, and 25 of her golfers have won All-State honors.
That 1996 championship also brought Berglund the first of eight Class B Coach of the Year awards from the North Dakota High School Coaches Association, a run that included four straight awards from 2003-06. She was named National Girls’ Golf Coach of the Year by the National Federation of State High School Associations in 2005, and was a finalist for the National High School Athletic Coaches Association’s National Coach of the Year award in 2006.
Since being honored in 2010, Berglund led Hazen until her retirement in 2014. In 2015 Berglund was named NHSACA National Coach of the Year. A year later she was inducted into the NDHSAA Hall of Fame for her accolades over the course of her career.
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