Burks-Wiley joined the USF staff in May of 2017. She came Tampa after one season in the ACC at Boston College. USF is Burks-Wiley’s fifth stop in her coaching career, as the former professional forward has spent time at Nebraska-Omaha, UMass-Lowell, Brown and Boston College.
Burks-Wiley spent two seasons at Brown University as an assistant coach and director of player development. While at Brown, Burks-Wiley worked closely with the Ivy League’s unanimous Rookie of the Year, Shayna Mehta, whom she recruited from San Francisco. In her first season at Brown, Burks-Wiley helped the Bears finish second in the Ivy League in scoring (65.5 points per game) and first in the league in steals (10.1 per game). She coached a pair of All-Ivy players in Sophie Bikofsky ’15 and Jordin Alexander ’16 while helping the Bears notch their first road sweep of Harvard and Dartmouth since Feb. 26-27, 1993.
Burks-Wiley spent the 2013-14 season as an assistant and recruiting coordinator on at UMass-Lowell, helping the Riverhawks’ transition into full time Division I athletics. Prior to Lowell, Burks-Wiley joined the Nebraska-Omaha staff as an assistant for the 2012-13 season, guiding the Mavericks to a 17-11 record overall in only their second year of Division I play.
A 2009 graduate of Boston University, she boasted a standout career for the Terriers, becoming one of only eight players to record 1,000 points and 500 rebounds in their career. A stellar final campaign saw the co-captain average 17.9 points and 7.3 rebounds per game, propelling her to America East Player of the Year honors and a Region I finalist for the 2009 State Farm Coaches’ All-America Basketball Team.
The Kansas City, Mo., native took her talents overseas after graduation, beginning with Romania ICIM Arad before making stops in the top leagues in Finland and Portugal. She concluded her professional career in Belgium, leading the Castor Braine squad to the second round of the league’s playoffs as the team’s leading scorer.
