Burrows played for Moore and the Lady Mocs from 2000-04 and was an all-conference and all-SoCon tournament performer at Chattanooga. During her tenure as a guard for UTC, the Lady Mocs won four straight Southern Conference regular season and tournament titles and posted an overall record of 102-23.
In the 2003-04 season, the lady Mocs posted the nation’s longest active winning streak at 27 games culminating with UTC’s NCAA first-round win over Rutgers. In that game, Burrows sank the most memorable shot in Chattanooga history nailing a 30-foot jumper from the right side that sparked a comeback that led to a 74-69 win over the Scarlet Knights.
Burrows earned a spot as one of Moore’s Top 10 players in UTC’s celebration of “Moore in McKenzie, a Decade of Dominance”. She ranks in the top 10 in UTC history in 3-pointers made (107) and 3-pointers attempted (315).
I’ve never had a player crazy enough to come back,” Moore said. “It’s exciting. She comes from a coaching family. Her father is Coach Galloway, the original — Joe Galloway, the court is named for him over at Lookout Valley. Her sister Kristen is over there and coaching. She’s been around the game for a long time and I think those experiences are good to have in your program.”
Burrows will replace Amanda Eaton-Burge, who is leaving UTC after two seasons to move closer to her family in West Virginia.
“I’m excited,” Burrows said of the opportunity. “I felt that the time was right now that we’ve been married a few months and we feel settled a little in that sense. It just felt like the right thing to do and it felt like the thing I needed to do.”
Burrows took over a Ringgold program that had won just three games the year prior to her arrival.
The Lady Tigers steadily increased their win total in each of her three seasons, culminating in Ringgold’s first state playoff appearance since 1986 when the team lost to Rossville in the Class AAA finals.
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