Joy Marie Burke (born November 7, 1990), also known by her Chinese name Bao Hsi-le (), is a
Taiwanese-American
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As of the 2010 U.S. Census, 49% of Taiwanese Americans lived in the state of Califo ...
collegiate and professional
basketball
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player. Burke played
college basketball
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for the
Arizona State University. Following graduation she has played professionally overseas for the
Hørsholm 79ers
Hørsholm 79'ers Basketball Klub is a Danish basketball club from Hørsholm founded in 1979, playing both in the male and female Danish championships. The women's team is one of the most successful teams in Danish history, having won 9 national ch ...
,
Bendigo Spirit
Bendigo Spirit is one of three Victorian basketball teams in the Australian Women's National Basketball League. The team, based in the regional city of Bendigo, Victoria, joined the competition from the 2007/08 season.
History
The Bendigo Spiri ...
, and in 2015 she made her national team debut as a member of the
Chinese Taipei women's national basketball team
Chinese Taipei women's national basketball team is a national women's basketball team of Chinese Taipei (previously referred to as Taiwan or Formosa).
Asia Cup record
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.
Early life
Joy was born in 1990 in Chiayi, Taiwan, the daughter of Steve Burke and Ming-Hui Burke.
She is the oldest of two children. Her father Steve Burke is American, and travelled to Taiwan to preach as a priest, and her mother Ming-Hui Burke is from
Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan.
Growing up Burke has lived in
Kenting in
Pingtung County and
Kaohsiung. She is fluent in
Mandarin
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Language
* Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country
** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China
** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...
and
English
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* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
.
Her younger brother
Timothy James (TJ) Burke was born in
Kaohsiung, Taiwan in March 1993. Burke was featured in a shampoo advert when she was four years old.
She attended
Morrison Academy
Morrison Academy () is an international Christian school founded 1952 in Taichung, Taiwan. It primarily caters to the children of missionaries. Beyond the original Taichung location it also maintains a campus in Taipei and Morrison Academy Kaoh ...
, a
private conservative
Christian school
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The nature of Christian schools varies enormously from country to country, according to the religious, educational, and political cultures. In some count ...
, in
Taichung
Taichung (, Wade–Giles: ''Tʻai²-chung¹'', pinyin: ''Táizhōng''), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality located in central Taiwan. Taichung has approximately 2.8 million residents and is the second most populous city of Ta ...
until she was twelve. Burke was a little shy as one of the tallest in her class. In the summers while most children would broke off from school, Joy and her brother, TJ, would get workbooks to study. Burke thrived and never needed help from her parents with her homework. Burke emigrated with her family to live in the United States when she was twelve.
High school
Burke later attended
Marcos de Niza High School
Marcos de Niza High School is a high school located in Tempe, Arizona. It was founded in 1971 and it has an enrollment of approximately 1,500 students. The school's mascot is the Padre. The school is a part of the Tempe Union High School Distric ...
in
Tempe, Arizona
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and played basketball on the Arizona Elite Girls Basketball Club. According to Burke she never was never interested in basketball growing up, and was originally hoping to pursue
ballet
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. On her first day of high school she was asked by the school coach to consider taking up basketball, and she gradually felt interested, and practiced. Burke enjoyed an outstanding career in high school and is ranked among the top post players in the country, and was one of the top 100 basketball recruits in the nation. She was named to the All-City Basketball Team in 2007, 2008, and 2009. She holds the school's single-game record for most
free throw
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s with 17, and scored 51 of her team's 68 points in a
Nike
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Tournament of Champions to secure her team the victory. She captained her team in two seasons.
Burke subsequently earned numerous awards during her high school career, including being named the Pima Region Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year.
She received the Kori Jacobson Excellence Award given to the top female athlete of the year in the Tempe Union High School District, based upon athletics, scholarship, and community service, and recipient of a Tempe All-City Banquet.
She is a
McDonald's All-American
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nominee and was also named to the Arizona Republic's All-Arizona Team, earning all-city accolades three times.
As a junior, she averaged 19.5 points, 13.3 rebounds, 5.3 blocks, 3.3 steals and 1.3 assists per game.
This increased when she became a senior and she averaged 23.3 points, 17.8 rebounds, 7.5 blocks and 3.9 steals per game,
and connected on 63 percent of her field goal attempts.
At the end of her junior year Burke was offered full-ride basketball scholarships from over 40 Division One universities.
Burke also lettered in
volleyball
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. In addition to her achievements on the court, Burke has been the recipient of numerous awards and accolades off court, including being named the
Tempe Top Teen, English Student of the Year,
Homecoming Queen
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...
, and earning Scholar-Athlete honors four times, and was a member of the
National Honor Society.
Burke ranked 17th in a class of 463 seniors and carried a 4.0 grade point average. She was also served as a translator for students who spoke Chinese.
College career
After graduating from Marcos de Niza High School in 2009, Burke attended
Arizona State University from 2009–2014. She had taken the opportunity of a basketball scholarship for a college education and cited the chance to live in different countries as a reason. She majored in marketing, and graduated from UA with a bachelor's and master's degrees in marketing in just five years in 2014. Burke's major in business marketing was more of an accident than a choice. When she first applied to ASU, she clicked a drop-down menu for majors and hastily chose Business Marketing. She said she didn’t think know she could scroll down for 'undecided'.
Burke was in ASU's
Barrett Honors College. In the same period, she played for the
Arizona State Sun Devils women's basketball
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in
NCAA Division I
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.
Career
;Europe
After graduating from college in 2014, Burke headed to
Denmark
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and signed with the
Hørsholm 79ers
Hørsholm 79'ers Basketball Klub is a Danish basketball club from Hørsholm founded in 1979, playing both in the male and female Danish championships. The women's team is one of the most successful teams in Danish history, having won 9 national ch ...
in the
Dameligaen
The Kvindebasketligaen is the premier championship for women's basketball clubs in Denmark. It was created in 1971, and it is currently contested by eight teams. It was known as Dameligaen until 2021-2022 season. The champion qualifies for the nex ...
. She had a successful season, playing in 26 games, and averaging 14 points and 11.2 rebounds, and ranked third in the league in rebounds per game. Burke was instrumental to Hørsholm securing their first league championship title in five years when she almost single-handedly lead the team to victory.
;Australia
Burke signed with the
Bendigo Spirit
Bendigo Spirit is one of three Victorian basketball teams in the Australian Women's National Basketball League. The team, based in the regional city of Bendigo, Victoria, joined the competition from the 2007/08 season.
History
The Bendigo Spiri ...
in Australia for the 2015–16
WNBL season. After inconsistent showings, Burke has not been re-signed for the following season. However, Burke remained in Australia to participate in the
SEABL
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playing for the
Ballarat Rush
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.
Burke had an outstanding first season in the SEABL averaging a
double-double
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with 15.1 points and 12.4 rebounds per game. She was ranked third in the league for total rebounds with 272 and second in blocks with 39. Burke received SEABL Team of the Week honours on five occasions, and was named the player of the week after she scored 34 points and had 18 rebounds in a single game. Burke achieved 13 double-doubles with 11 coming from the final 13 games of the seasons. In 2016 she was crowned the Ballarat Rush Robyn Maher MVP.
In her third season with the SEABL Burke averaged a further double, double with 14.1 points and 11.65 rebounds per game in 2018. She was the league's leading rebounder with a total of 233 rebounds.
Burke had played in the previous SEABL seasons under her English name and on her American passport, but the SEABL introduced a new bylaw for the inclusion on Asian born athletes to be classified as unrestricted players. Despite being born in Taiwan and having played with the Chinese Taipei National Team, she was required to complete all necessary visa applications using her Taiwanese passport.
; Career data
National team
Burke made her national team debut, as a member of the 2015 Chinese Taipei National Team that participated in the 37th
William Jones Cup. Standing 1.96m tall, Burke is the tallest player in the team's history. She would go on to represent at the
2015 FIBA Asia Women's Championship
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The championship was divid ...
, and was pivitol in securing Chinese Taipei two crucial game victories which enabled the team a finishing place in the competition's top four finalists.
Burke participated in the Team Americas versus Team World match at the Aurora Games on August 22 2019, in
Albany, New York
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. Selected to play on Team World, she was one of the highly regarded players to feature in the basketball segment of the inaugural all-women sports and entertainment festival, a matchup of the best female basketball players in the world. Burke lead Team World to an 85-77 victory over Team Americas. Other than during a 10-point run, which turned a 7-0 deficit into a 10-7 lead, Team Americas was playing from behind the entire game.
; William Jones Cup
; FIBA Women's Asia Cup
Personal life
Burke devotes significant time to charities and community events and is an active supporter of
Nonprofit organization
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s.
Her younger brother TJ Burke TJ Burke played college basketball at UC Riverside, and he cites as his biggest athletics influence.
References
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1990 births
Living people
Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei
Basketball players at the 2018 Asian Games
Centers (basketball)
Dameligaen players
Expatriate basketball people in Australia
Hørsholm 79ers players
People from Chiayi
Taiwanese expatriates in Australia
Taiwanese people of American descent
Taiwanese women's basketball players
Chinese Taipei women's national basketball team players