TFRRS Performance Profile
Personal Bests (thru 2018):
- 1,500: 4:21.01
- 3,000: 9:24.23i
- 800: 2:06.67i
- 400: 56.30i
- Mile: 4:45.54i
- 1,000: 2:47.08i
- 5,000: 17:17.35
- Long Jump: 19-1
As a senior (2017-18):
Outdoors
- Reached the Pac-12 1,500 final, placing eighth on her home track.
- Set lifetime 1,500 best of 4:21.01 at the Payton Jordan Invitational.
- Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims for the fourth consecutive year.
- Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
Indoors
- Anchored distance medley team to fifth at MPSF Championships.
- Placed 18th in the mile at the MPSF Championships.
- MPSF All-Academic team.
Cross country
- Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
- Placed 48th in her first Pac-12 championship race, as team's No. 9 runner.
- Also competed at the Bill Dellinger and Wisconsin invitationals.
As a junior (2016-17):
Outdoors
- Advanced to the NCAA West Prelims for the third consecutive year.
- Placed 10th overall at the West Prelims, her highest finish and was three spots from NCAA qualifying.
- Ran 1,500 lifetime best of 4:24.16 at the Brutus Hamilton Invite, placing fifth.
- USTFCCCA All-Academic selection.
- Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
Indoors
- Ran the opening leg of the winning distance medley relay at the UW Invitational.
- Set mile personal best at the Husky Classic, running 4:46.96.
- Broke that with a 4:45.54 at the MPSF Championships.
- MPSF All-Academic selection.
Cross country
- Raced once, as Stanford's No. 6 at the Stanford Invite.
As a sophomore (2015-16):
Outdoors
- Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention.
- USTFCCCA All-Academic team.
Indoors
- Tenth in the MPSF Championships mile in a season best 4:48.05.
- Won the 1,000 at the Penn State National in 2:47.08.
- Ran the first leg of Stanford's runner-up distance medley relay team at the MPSF Championships.
- The time of 11:12.41 was No. 17 in the nation.
- MPSF All-Academic team.
Cross country
- Made collegiate cross country debut by placing 29th at the Stanford Invitational as team's No. 7.
As a freshman (2014-15):
Outdoors
- Qualified for the NCAA West Prelims in the 800, running season best of 2:09.54 at the West Coast Last Chance meet in San Francisco.
- Ran 1,500 personal record 4:19.60 at the Pac-12 Championships, placing 19th overall.
- Sixth in the Big Meet 1,500.
Indoors
- Finished 14th at the MPSF Championships in the 800, in a season best 2:09.95.
- Made collegiate debut by placing eighth in the 1,000 meters (2:49.23) at the UW Indoor Preview.
- Set personal best in the mile while finishing fifth at the Razorback Invitational, running 4:47.81.
Cross country
- Ran unattached in the Stanford Invitational, finishing 32nd in 21:59.
High School:
- Captured 13 individual state titles in indoor and outdoor distance running, set eight Rhode Island high school state records, won New England titles, set regional records and earned All-America honors.
- Earned an A in every one of her 24 mainly Advanced Placement and honors courses.
- The state outdoor record holder in the 800 (2:08.40) and 1,500 (4:26.88), and holds indoor records in the 400 (56.30) and 800 (2:06.67, which broke a 27-year-old New England record).
- In 2014, she captured the 800, 1,500, and 4x400 at the outdoor state championships, and tripled in the 1,000, 1,500, and 3,000 for the second consecutive indoor season.
- Won back-to-back New England indoor titles in the 1,000.
- Led Classical to three state titles -- two outdoor, one indoor.
- Three-time Gatorade Rhode Island Track Athlete of the Year.
- Was seventh in the 800 at the 2014 U.S. junior nationals (2:10.79).
- Played soccer her first three falls at Classical High, but took up cross country as a senior and placed third in the state and eighth in New England.
- Her best long jump of 19-1 was only three inches shy of a 28-year-old state record.
- Prep mile best of 4:50.11 (indoors) and javelin best of 112-7.
- A member of Classical High’s debating team and chess club.
- In being named Honor Roll Girl by the Providence Journal in 2014, the newspaper wrote: "Maddy Berkson delivered a career of athletic and academic excellence never before seen in the 170-year history of Classical High School."
Career results:
| Year | Season (Meets) | Event | Season Best | Conf. | Regional | NCAA |
| 2017-18 | Outdoors (6) | 1,500 | 4:21.01 | 8 (4:30.23) | 36 (4:30.32) | -- |
| 5,000 | 17:17.35 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (4) | Mile | 4:44.93 | 18 (4:51.94) | -- | -- | |
| 3,000 | 9:24.23 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 11:28.59 | 5 (11:28.59) | -- | -- | ||
| Cross country (3) | 6K | 20:13.2 | 48 (20:13.2) | -- | -- | |
| 2016-17 | Outdoors (6) | 1,500 | 4:24.16 | 15 (4:28.58) | 10 (4:27.59) | -- |
| 800 | 2:11.01 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (4) | Mile | 4:45.54 | 17 (4:45.54) | -- | -- | |
| 1,000 | 2:49.41 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:53.62 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 11:31.98 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross country (1) | 6K | 21:31.6 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2015-16 | Outdoors (7) | 1,500 | 4:24.39 | 16 (4:25.46) | 27 (4:28.49) | -- |
| 800 | 2:09.01 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:47.41 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (3) | Mile | 4:48.05 | 10 (4:48.05) | -- | -- | |
| 1,000 | 2:47.08 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| DMR | 11:12.41 | 2 (11:12.41) | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:51.41 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross country (1) | 6K | 21:42.1 | -- | -- | -- | |
| 2014-15 | Outdoors (7) | 800 | 2:09.54 | -- | 31 (2:10.70) | -- |
| 1,500 | 4:19.60 | 19 (4:19.60) | -- | -- | ||
| Mile | 4:52.56 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:50.58 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Indoors (4) | 800 | 2:08.95 | 14 (2:08.95) | -- | -- | |
| 1,000 | 2:49.23 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Mile | 4:47.81 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 4x400 | 3:53.44 | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Cross country (0) | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |