Bio

Coach Burke is entering his sixth season as head men's lacrosse coach at CCBC Essex. 

Burke has helped lead the Knights to five consecutive NJCAA Region XX Titles (2010-2014), as well as two consecutive appearances in the NJCAA National Championship game in 2010 and 2011. Burke, named Maryland JUCO/Region XX Coach of the Year in 2010 and 2011, produced 18 NJCAA All Americans and 37 NJCAA All-Region XX players in his first four seasons at Essex. 

As a high school attackman prepping at Calvert Hall College High School, Burke was an All Baltimore City/County selection in 1991 under former coach Mike Thomas. He then moved on to play for current Lacrosse Hall of Fame Coach Don Zimmerman at the University of Maryland at Baltimore County. After graduating from UMBC in 1996, Burke returned to his high school alma mater, Calvert Hall, to work as an offensive assistant for the Cardinals from (1997-2002).

In 2003, Burke was named Head Men's Lacrosse Coach at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. During his tenure at Howard Community College, Burke was named the NJCAA Region Coach of the Year in 2005, 2006 and 2007. He helped produce the program's first 10 NJCAA All Americans, as well a total of 33 NJCAA All Region XX Team student-athletes.  Burke also help guide the Dragons to their first ever Maryland JUCO title in 2006, as well as their first ever appearance in the NJCAA National Final Four, finishing with a No. 3 national ranking in Lacrosse Magazine and Inside Lacrosse. During the 2007 season, the Dragon offense averaged a hefty 18.4 goals per game, produced three NJCAA All-Americans on the offensive end, as well as the NJCAA Region XX Offensive Player of the Year, for the second year in a row. 

Burke currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife Susan and their daughters Emma and Brynn.