Women's Basketball
Burge, Tanna
Tanna Burge
- Title:
- Assistant Athletic Director, Sports Performance
- E-Mail:
- tburge@athletics.tamu.edu
Tanna Burge has been overseeing the strength and conditioning programs for all Texas A&M sports other than football as the Assistant Athletics Director for Sports Performance since 2015.
In 2021, Burge was honored as a Master Strength & Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches association (CSCCa), which is the highest honor that can be achieved as a Strength & Conditioning Coach, representing professionalism, knowledge, experience, expertise, as well as longevity in the field.
A native Texan, Burge has a wide and varied background in sports performance with over 20 years of experience at Texas A&M, Northwestern (2013-15), U.S. Military Academy – West Point, Baylor (1998-2001, 2005-09), Clemson (2002-04) and North Carolina.
Burge came to Aggieland from Northwestern University, where she coordinated the training and conditioning for the Wildcat women’s basketball, women’s tennis, and men and women’s swimming and diving teams since 2013. While at Northwestern, Burge served as director of sports performance community outreach, editing a monthly department “Peak Performance Newsletter” while also sharing the latest news from the sports medicine and sports performance units as the group’s social media coordinator. Additionally, she served as a liaison to the Sports Nutrition unit.
Burge started her college athletics strength and conditioning career as an undergraduate at Baylor University. She worked three years as a student assistant in the Bears’ strength and conditioning department and earned a bachelor’s degree in 2001 from Baylor in health/fitness studies.
An internship at the University of North Carolina, where she assisted the strength and conditioning staff for all Olympic sports, led to a graduate assistant position in 2002 at Clemson University overseeing Olympic sports. Burge used the opportunity to begin work on a master’s degree in food, nutrition and culinary sciences. She was promoted in 2004 to Director of Olympic Sports on the Clemson strength and conditioning staff.
In 2005, her alma mater Baylor called and offered her a position to train various Bear athletic teams.
Five years later in 2010, Burge took one year away from collegiate athletics to serve as a missionary and participated in The World Race (11 countries in 11 months) and Passport (leading college students for two months in New Zealand) with the Adventures in Missions’ organization. Her passion for training student-athletes led her back to collegiate athletics in 2012, when she worked with the United States Military Academy before being hired by Northwestern.
Burge, who grew up in the small central Texas town of Bertram, is certified through the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa), USA Weightlifting Level 1-Club Coach and American Red Cross (CPR).
The Burge File
Hometown: Bertram, Texas
Education: Baylor (Bachelor’s in Health/Fitness Studies, 2001)
2013-15: Northwestern (Sports Performance Coach)
2012-13: Army West Point (Sports Performance Coach)
2005-10: Baylor (Sports Performance Coach)
2004-05: Clemson (Director of Olympic Sports)
2002-03: Clemson (Graduate Assistant, Strength and Conditioning)
1997-01: Baylor (Strength and Conditioning Student Assistant)
(05/21)
In 2021, Burge was honored as a Master Strength & Conditioning Coach by the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches association (CSCCa), which is the highest honor that can be achieved as a Strength & Conditioning Coach, representing professionalism, knowledge, experience, expertise, as well as longevity in the field.
A native Texan, Burge has a wide and varied background in sports performance with over 20 years of experience at Texas A&M, Northwestern (2013-15), U.S. Military Academy – West Point, Baylor (1998-2001, 2005-09), Clemson (2002-04) and North Carolina.
Burge came to Aggieland from Northwestern University, where she coordinated the training and conditioning for the Wildcat women’s basketball, women’s tennis, and men and women’s swimming and diving teams since 2013. While at Northwestern, Burge served as director of sports performance community outreach, editing a monthly department “Peak Performance Newsletter” while also sharing the latest news from the sports medicine and sports performance units as the group’s social media coordinator. Additionally, she served as a liaison to the Sports Nutrition unit.
Burge started her college athletics strength and conditioning career as an undergraduate at Baylor University. She worked three years as a student assistant in the Bears’ strength and conditioning department and earned a bachelor’s degree in 2001 from Baylor in health/fitness studies.
An internship at the University of North Carolina, where she assisted the strength and conditioning staff for all Olympic sports, led to a graduate assistant position in 2002 at Clemson University overseeing Olympic sports. Burge used the opportunity to begin work on a master’s degree in food, nutrition and culinary sciences. She was promoted in 2004 to Director of Olympic Sports on the Clemson strength and conditioning staff.
In 2005, her alma mater Baylor called and offered her a position to train various Bear athletic teams.
Five years later in 2010, Burge took one year away from collegiate athletics to serve as a missionary and participated in The World Race (11 countries in 11 months) and Passport (leading college students for two months in New Zealand) with the Adventures in Missions’ organization. Her passion for training student-athletes led her back to collegiate athletics in 2012, when she worked with the United States Military Academy before being hired by Northwestern.
Burge, who grew up in the small central Texas town of Bertram, is certified through the Collegiate Strength and Conditioning Coaches Association (CSCCa), USA Weightlifting Level 1-Club Coach and American Red Cross (CPR).
The Burge File
Education: Baylor (Bachelor’s in Health/Fitness Studies, 2001)
Burge’s Career
2015-Present: Texas A&M (Assistant AD, Sports Performance)2013-15: Northwestern (Sports Performance Coach)
2012-13: Army West Point (Sports Performance Coach)
2005-10: Baylor (Sports Performance Coach)
2004-05: Clemson (Director of Olympic Sports)
2002-03: Clemson (Graduate Assistant, Strength and Conditioning)
1997-01: Baylor (Strength and Conditioning Student Assistant)
(05/21)
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