Women's Basketball
Burns, Beth
Beth Burns
- Title:
- Associate Strength and Conditioning Coach
- Email:
- beth@GoCards.com
- Phone:
- 852-8355
Beth Burns is in her sixth season with Louisville women's basketball and her fifth as Associate Strength & Conditioning Coach.
Burns has worked 30-plus years as a collegiate basketball coach and in her five seasons combined at UofL, has helped put together a 151-20 record.
Prior to coming to Louisville, most recently she served as the associate head coach of the women's basketball team at Southern California from 2014 to 2017.
She came to USC following an impressive career at San Diego State, where she is the winningest coach in program history. During her stint with the Aztecs, every student-athlete who competed for four years graduated from college and played in the NCAA Tournament.
Burns came to Louisville with 21 years of NCAA Division 1 head coaching experience, earning six conference and two regional Coach of the Year awards. Her teams made eight NCAA appearances, including a trip to the Sweet 16 in 2010.
She led her team to nine 20-plus win seasons, six conference championships and seven players were selected as All-Americans.
In addition, she served two stints on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Board of Directors and was a member of the USA Basketball Olympic Team Selection Committee from 1997 to 2000. Burns also currently sits on the Kay Yow Cancer Fund Board of Directors.
She is also a committed fitness coach and consultant, obtaining her National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) certification in 2004, and recently became a TRX Suspension Training Certified Coach.
Burns received her B.A. in Health and Physical Education from Ohio Wesleyan University and was inducted into the OWU Athletic Hall of Fame. She received her M.A. in Physical Education from Ohio State University.
She is a native of Chatham, New Jersey.
Burns has worked 30-plus years as a collegiate basketball coach and in her five seasons combined at UofL, has helped put together a 151-20 record.
Prior to coming to Louisville, most recently she served as the associate head coach of the women's basketball team at Southern California from 2014 to 2017.
She came to USC following an impressive career at San Diego State, where she is the winningest coach in program history. During her stint with the Aztecs, every student-athlete who competed for four years graduated from college and played in the NCAA Tournament.
Burns came to Louisville with 21 years of NCAA Division 1 head coaching experience, earning six conference and two regional Coach of the Year awards. Her teams made eight NCAA appearances, including a trip to the Sweet 16 in 2010.
She led her team to nine 20-plus win seasons, six conference championships and seven players were selected as All-Americans.
In addition, she served two stints on the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) Board of Directors and was a member of the USA Basketball Olympic Team Selection Committee from 1997 to 2000. Burns also currently sits on the Kay Yow Cancer Fund Board of Directors.
She is also a committed fitness coach and consultant, obtaining her National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) certification in 2004, and recently became a TRX Suspension Training Certified Coach.
Burns received her B.A. in Health and Physical Education from Ohio Wesleyan University and was inducted into the OWU Athletic Hall of Fame. She received her M.A. in Physical Education from Ohio State University.
She is a native of Chatham, New Jersey.
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