Joy Burke

Burke participated in the Team Americas versus Team World match at the Aurora Games on August 22 2019, in Albany, New York. 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 basketballers 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.

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.

Burke once also lettered in volleyball. 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, 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.

Burke had an outstanding first season in the SEABL averaging a double double 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.

Burke signed with the Bendigo Spirit 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 playing for the Ballarat Rush.

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, 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.

After graduating from college in 2014, Burke headed to Denmark and signed with the Hørsholm 79ers in the Dameligaen. 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.

After graduating from Marcos de Niza High School in 2009, Burke attended Arizona State University from 2009–2014. 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 later attended Marcos de Niza High School in Tempe, Arizona and played basketball on the Arizona Elite Girls Basketball Club. According to Burke she never liked basketball before but took the opportunity of a basketball scholarship for a college education and the chance to live in different countries. 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 throws with 17, and scored 51 of her team's 68 points in a Nike Tournament of Champions to secure her team the victory. She captained her team in two seasons.

Joy Marie Burke (born November 7, 1990), also known by her Chinese name Bao Hsi-le (Chinese: 包喜樂 ), is a Taiwanese-American collegiate and professional basketball player. Burke played college basketball for the Arizona State University. Following graduation she has played professionally overseas for the Hørsholm 79ers, Bendigo Spirit, and in 2015 she made her national team debut as a member of the Chinese Taipei women's national basketball team.

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 came to Taiwan to preach as a priest, and her mother Ming-Hui Burke is from Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan.