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Burke was a three-time Rider Female Athlete of the Year and a two-time National Champion in her post-graduate career. She became Rider's first-ever diver to qualify for Nationals and was a three-time NCAA qualifier. She earned three MAAC and ECAC Diver of the Year honors, taking home seven MAAC and seven ECAC gold medals. Burke owns all five Rider team diving records and all four Rider Pool diving records, as well as both MAAC diving records. She was named to the Mid-Major All-America Swimming and Diving Team by collegeswimming.com and continued her diving career for six years after college, earning National Champion honors in the one-meter dive at the 2011 AT&T National Championships, as well as three-meter synchronized diving at the 2014 AT&T National Championships with Ariel Rittenhouse. Burke reached the finals of the U.S. Diving Olympic Trials in the 3-meter springboard in 2016. In 2012, Burke also qualified in the 3-meter Synchronized Springboard dive and placed third, with the top two teams going to the Olympics. Burke competed as a member of the Olympic Performance Squad as a synchronized diver, representative of the top 25 divers in the nation. She placed seventh in the world at the 2013 FINA World Aquatic Championships in Barcelona, Spain, and placed third at the 2013 AT&T National Diving Championships in the 1-meter in Iowa.