Biography
2022
NFF Hampshire Society Inductee … Played in all 10 games, serving as a wide receiver and punter … Boomed a season-long 58 yard punt and posted three kicks inside the 20 against Princeton … Made an 11-yard touchdown grab in win over Wagner.
2021
Saw action in two games as a junior wide receiver … Listed as a backup wide receiver on the depth chart … Played in both the Yale (Oct. 30) and Harvard (Nov. 6) games.
2020
Season canceled due to COVID pandemic.
2019
Saw action in two games as a first-year wide receiver and on special teams … Listed on the depth chart as a backup wide receiver and backup punter … Traveled to the majority of games, but saw action in two contests (vs. Brown, at Cornell) … Finished year with one reception for 17 yards … Made first career reception, a 17-yard pass vs. Brown (Nov. 16).
HIGH SCHOOL
A 2019 graduate of Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park, Kansas, where he lettered three years in football for head coach Andy Sims … Greater Kansas City Football Coaches Association Otis Taylor Award Winner, which is awarded to the most outstanding high school wide receiver/tight end in the greater Kansas City area … Named Class 6A First Team All-State honoree by USA Today, the Kansas Coaches Association, Topeka Capital Journal, Wichita Eagle and Sports in Kansas … Named First Team Eastern Kansas League wide receiver, honorable mention All-EKL punter and All-Simone KC Metro by PrepsKC in 2018 … Selected as one of the Top 100 players in all classes by Sports in Kansas … Two-time All-Eastern Kansas League Academic Team selection … Invited to participate in the Kansas Shrine Bowl … 2018 Finalist for Offensive Player of the Year by Sports in Kansas … Saw action as a wide receiver, punter, tight end and backup quarterback during three-year career … Served as team captain as a senior … Set the all-time Kansas High School state record for single-season receptions (101) and receiving yards (1,838) as a senior in 2018 … Set six school records for receiving as a senior in 2018: career receiving yards (2,242), receiving yards in a game (256), receiving yards in a season (1,838), touchdown receptions in a season (21), receptions in a game (15) and receptions in a season (101) … Concluded his senior year with 101 receptions for 1,838 yards, caught 21 touchdown passes as a senior wide receiver … Caught at least one touchdown pass in each of the Mustangs’ 13 games, two TD passes in six games and three TD passes in one game … Led the Mustangs to the Class 6A state runner-up finish and 9-5 record as a senior … Made 13 receptions for a state record 256 yards receiving vs. Blue Valley Northwest … Caught six passes for 101 yards and three touchdowns in the first six minutes of game vs. Blue Valley West … Earned the Blue Valley North “High Octane” Award in 2018 … Caught 36 passes for 404 yards and five touchdowns as a junior in 2017 … Guided the Mustangs to the Class 8A state championship as a junior … Started nine games on the varsity football team as a sophomore in 2016 … Played for the Epic7 Midwest All-Star 7on7 team helped win all six 2018 Simone Awards won by team members … Also played four years of basketball and served as team captain in 2018 … Also played baseball where he was an outfielder and pitcher … Two-time National Honor Society member (2017 and 2018) … Heavily involved in the community as he volunteered at Ronald McDonald House, twice organized yearly senior citizen yard clean-up days and tutored developmentally disabled children in math and science.
PERSONAL
Born Cameron Shea Burt on August 31, 2000 in Kansas City, Missouri … Son of Richmond and Suzanne Burt … Has an older brother Colin … Father attended Marlboro College in Vermont, while mother attended the University of Kansas … Grandfather swam at the University of Kansas and was a coach in 1963-64 … Great grandfather attended Princeton from 1929-32 and was the founder, president and CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield in Kansas … Great uncle Daryl Spencer played Major League Baseball from 1952-63 with the New York Giants, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Los Angeles Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds and Hankyu Braves in Japan (1964-72) … Uncle Mikel Cerne played football at Kansas (1970-72) and cousin Jeff Long played football at Kansas (1984) … Role model is his father because of his work ethic … Hobbies and interests include video games and sports … Chose Columbia because of its world-class education, opportunity to win an Ivy League Championship and the opportunities that will present itself because of this experience … Selected Columbia over offers from Cornell, Dartmouth, Princeton, Air Force, Stetson, Drake, Nebraska, Iowa State, Kansas, Missouri and multiple NCAA Division II and III schools … Enrolled at Columbia College … Majors in Astronomy.
