 Burgess narrowly missed out on qualifying for the 2012 Summer Olympics held in London; she did however claim a gold medal alongside Michael Peart at the European Grand Prix in Cyprus in the mixed team recurve competition.In 2015 it was announced that Burgess had joined Team GB's paralympic team as performance coach for the recurve archery athletes.In 2017, Burgess also became the Lead Coach in the training and development of archers for the UK Invictus Games Team.