[1] After taking up golf at the age of 15, she immediately won three-straight Oklahoma State High School Championships.

She was the first woman to receive a golf scholarship from Oklahoma City University, where she competed on the men's team.

[8] After retiring from tour play, Berning became a well-respected teaching professional, spending time at the Nicholas-Flick Golf Academy and dividing her time between The Reserve Club in Palm Springs, California and Maroon Creek Country Club in Aspen, Colorado.

She had two daughters, Robin Doctor and Cindy Molchany, from her marriage to Dale Berning, which ended in divorce in 1997.

[5] At the 1989 Konica San Jose Classic, she and Robin became the first mother-daughter pair to play in the same LPGA Tour event.