Kieran Burke - Tennis Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Kieran Burke

Title:
Assistant Coach
Year At CU:
Harvard '09
E-mail:
kieran.j.burke@colorado.edu
Phone:
303-492-7969

Kieran Burke joins the Buffaloes in 2016-17 as an assistant coach with five years of collegiate coaching experience at the NCAA Division I level. He spent the 2015-16 season as a volunteer assistant at Vanderbilt and the previous four seasons as an assistant coach and associate head coach at Boston College.

With Vanderbilt, he helped the Commodores reach the national semifinals, falling to eventual national champion Stanford in a tight 4-2 decision after defeating Virginia, Auburn, Rice and SIU Edwardsville. He worked extensively with ITA All-Americans Francis Altick and Sydney Campbell, who were also all-SEC selections. Altick was also named ITA Most Improved Player during the season. His main responsibilities at Vanderbilt were coaching technique and improving specific areas of players' games through individual workouts, while implementing video analysis and fitness bands to the program.

At Boston College, he served four seasons as an assistant coach and associate head coach. He was responsible for all areas of recruiting and developed training and practice schedules, as well as providing skill instruction. The Eagles saw steady improvement throughout Burke's tenure, winning one ACC match in the season prior to his arrival, to seven conference wins in his final year with the program—the best season in Boston College history. Also in his final season at BC, Jessica Wacnik became the first player in school history to win the Northeast ITA Region singles championship.

He also has had several years of experience serving as a private coach in the Boston area.

A native of Morristown, N.J., Burke earned his bachelor's degree at Harvard and majored in sociology.