Pat Berger
Pine Tar Academy
Baseball Office
(952) 939-8378
pat@pinetaracademy.com
Pat Berger Career Highlights

- 1991-'92  All Conference Pitcher at Minnetonka High School

- Head coach of the Minnetonka Senior Babe Ruth team (1999-2000)

- Head coach for Tonka Babe Ruth at Bennet Family Park in Minnetonka for eight years (1993-2000)

- Pat has served as youth baseball clinician and private lesson instructor since 2002


Pat enters his third year as the pitching coach of the Hopkins High School Baseball Team - Coach Berger's
pitching staffs have contributed to back-to-back Classic Lake Conference Championships.  Also, pitching
coach for the Hopkins Junior Legion baseball team which finished 2007 by winning the Minnesota Junior
Legion State Tournament

Prior to coming to Hopkins, Berger coached and played at Minnetonka. A 1992 graduate of Minnetonka
High School, Pat pitched for the Section 6 Champion Skippers. After high school, Coach Berger began
coaching Babe Ruth Baseball for East Tonka at Bennett Park.  In his ten years of coaching at the Babe Ruth
level, Berger's teams reached the Babe Ruth World Series two times. Pat is believed to be the only person in
Minnesota to have coached and played in the Babe Ruth World Series (he played in the 1989 Babe Ruth
World Series in Cranston, Rhode Island).

Pat is a sixth grade teacher at Eisenhower Elementary School in Hopkins. He lives in Minnetonka with his
wife Cathy, and children Leo, Ellie, and Gus.