BYU Highlights
- Appeared in five games, averaging 2.6 minutes per game
- Scored three points with two rebounds and an assist
Personal
- Burgess was born March 1981 in Sandy, Utah
- Parents are Kenneth and Sandi Burgess
- Has three brothers and one sister
- Brother Chris played at Duke and Utah before playing professionally overseas
- Brother David is a freshman teammate at BYU this season and first cousin Sam Burgess is a sophomore who has joined the team after returning from a two-year mission
- Sister Angela played on BYU's women's basketball team from 1998-99
- Served a two-year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in San Pablo, Philippines from August 2000 to July 2002
- Fitness and wellness management major.
Before BYU
(Irvine Valley College):
- Burgess played in all 30 games, including five starts, in 2002-03
- Averaged 1.4 points and 2.0 rebounds as the backup center on the 21-9 (10-4 in league play) Lasers
- Averaged 3.0 points and 2.6 rebounds in his five starts
- Scored a high of six points in four different games, including six-point, four-rebound, two-assist effort against Glendal
- Grabbed a season-high five offensive rebounds and six total rebounds against Canyons
- Had season-best two assists in three games
- Earned Dean's List academic honors
- Coached by Jerry Hernandez
(BYU-Hawaii):
- Redshirted at Division II BYU-Hawaii in 2000
- Coached by Ken Wagner
(Woodbridge HS):
- Burgess earned all-league and all-city honors as a senior
- Was the Warriors' MVP his senior year after averaging 18 points, eight rebounds and one block
- Coached by John Halagan.