Keuka College

Keuka College Athletics
141 Central Ave Keuka Park, NY 14478

Division 3 New York Northeast

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Jamie Burke

Jamie Burke took over the Keuka College Softball team prior to the 2006 season. Within a year, Burke had the Green and Gold to a championship level as they won the North Eastern Athletic Conference Championship in 2007 and repeated for the next six years.

Burke came to Keuka College following a stint at her alma mater, coaching Prattsburgh High School to five straight Steuben County League Division II titles and a pair of section V Class D Championships.

The 2003 Sportswriters and Coaches Organization for Girl’s Sports (NYSSCOGS) Class D Softball Coach of the Year, Burke also served as head girl’s basketball coach at Prattsburgh. She led the Vikings to the Section 5 Class D title in 2003.

Burke entered the coaching ranks following college as an assistant coach for both the women’s basketball and softball teams at SUNY Geneseo from 1998-1999.

Burke received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education from Canisius College in 1998. She was a member of the Canisius College women’s basketball team from 1995-98 and was selected to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) All-Academic Team from 1996-98.

A standout athlete at Prattsburgh, she held the national high school record for batting average in softball from 1993 to 2000, and holds various New York State basketball records. In November of 2008, Burke and her father, Jim, were inducted into the Section V Basketball Hall of Fame. She is the second leading scorer in the history of Section V girl’s basketball with 2,458 points and the first girl in Section V to eclipse 2,000 career points.

Jamie Burke later completed her education with a Master of Science degree in Sports Management from the United States Sports Academy in Daphne, Ala in 2010.

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Jim Burke

Jim Burke, father of head coach Jamie Burke, has been alongside his daughter as an assistant coach for the Keuka softball program since the 2006 season. Burke is no stranger to the ball diamond, as he coached Prattsburgh’s high school softball team from 1992-1994, and Prattsburgh’s baseball team from 1976-2002, where he led his teams to five sectional titles and 10 Section V final appearances.

In June of 2014, Burke was inducted into the Section V Baseball Hall of Fame for his stellar high school coaching career.

He has coached softball/baseball at all levels, including Cinderella Softball, Babe Ruth Baseball, High School softball and baseball, ASA Softball 16-Under and 18-Under, Northeastern Collegiate Baseball League and Southern Tier Semi-Pro Baseball League.

Besides coaching softball and baseball, Burke spent 28 years at the helm of Prattsburgh’s varsity boys basketball team, where he has led his teams to six sectional titles and one state title. He retired with 694 varsity basketball victories (517 with the boys team and 177 when he coached the girls team) and led the Vikings to 10 total sectional championships (six boys, four girls)

In November of 2008, Burke and his daughter, Jamie, were inducted into the Section V Basketball Hall of Fame.

Among his numerous honors: Burke was inducted into the New York State Basketball Coaches’ Hall of Fame in 2005, the Wayland-Cohocton High School Hall of Fame in 2006 and the National High School Coaches’ Association’s Hall of Fame in 2009. He was a four-year letterman in baseball at Arkansas State University.