The head gymnastics coach at West Virginia University was Linda Burdette (1948/1949–June 6, 2023). With a 644-263-4 record, she coached at WVU from 1975 to 2011. She guided her teams to 35 successful seasons beginning in 1980. Additionally, 33 times that her teams made it to the NCAA regionals. Her teams earned NCAA Nationals berths in 1995, 1999, and 2000. Four Atlantic 10 titles and six EAGL titles were won by her teams under her leadership.
She sat on the committee for the NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Competition and was a five-time recipient of the EAGL Coach of the Year award. After 37 years as a coach with 644 triumphs, Burdette-Good retired after the 2011 campaign. The gymnastics program was taken over by her in 1975.
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Anna Burdette, Linda Burdette’s daughter, and Lee Good, her husband, died before her. Bob Burdette, her ex-husband, and her grandsons Ashton Burdette and Robert David Cooper survive her.
Burdette-Good was honored by the Mountaineer Legends Society in 2017, the WVU Sports Hall of Fame in 2013, and the CPASS Hall of Fame in 2019.