Adele Burk was elevated to NESCAC Associate Director for Championships and Compliance in July 2021 after being named the NESCAC Assistant Director for Championships and Compliance in June 2016. She joined the conference in July 2013 as the Director of Media Relations.
Burk manages the administration of all conference championships and the use of the NESCAC logo marks, while also providing compliance assistance and education to conference members, handling all licensing requests, and serving as the administrative liaison to the NESCAC Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the NESCAC Coalition of Student-Athletes of Color (CoSAoC). She also manages conference scheduling across most sports. She currently serves on the NCAA Division III Women's Golf Committee, and has served on the Division III Eligibility Center Advisory Group and as a Division III Men's Golf Regional Advisory Committee member.
In her first three years with the NESCAC, Burk served as the Director of Media Relations for the league, which included oversight of the conference website and social media efforts, compiling conference statistics, managing the conference awards system, and handling all media requests.
Burk joined the NESCAC after having served as the Sports Information Director at Oswego State (NY) for four years. She handled all aspects of media relations needs for the Lakers' 24 sports, including the nationally-ranked men's basketball and ice hockey teams. Burk supervised numerous NCAA Tournament events and served as the liaison between the SUNY Oswego student-run media outlets, the Athletic Department, and the NCAA. She managed a staff of 20 SUNY Oswego students and three interns that conducted in-game operation aspects such as statistics, public address announcing, photography, and scoreboard operation, as well as day-to-day office responsibilities and historical research. Burk maintained and/or edited all content on the Oswego State Athletics website, as well as social media content for the Laker Facebook and Twitter accounts. She also served as the Chair of the Oswego Athletic Hall of Fame Committee and the SUNYAC Sports Information Directors Chair for two years.
Prior to joining the staff at Oswego State, she worked for two years as a Sports Information Assistant at her alma mater, Gustavus Adolphus, where she coordinated media relations for the 2008 NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Championships.
Burk earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from Gustavus Adolphus in 2004 and her Master of Arts degree in sport management from Minnesota State University at Mankato in 2009. She is an active member of NADIIIAA, Women Leaders in College Sports, having participated in the 2020 Institute for Administrative Advancement, and the Division III Associate/Assistant Commissioners Group (D3ACG). Burk recently completed the NCAA Pathway Program as a member of the 2023-24 cohort.
Burk is also an active member of Women Leaders in College Sports, and a previous member of Collegiate Sports Communicators. She is a 2020 graduate of the Women Leaders in College Sports Institute for Administrative Advancement. Burk served as a member of the CSC Diversity and Inclusion Committee from 2017-22 and as a District Coordinator for the CoSIDA Academic All-America Program from 2014-21.
