Her freshman year she began playing basketball, even though she had never touched a basketball until then. Now a senior, she has signed to play college basketball at Gordon College in Massachusetts and works with a program called Point Guard College Basketball (PGC), where she helps others develop mentally and physically. PGC is a basketball program that is not just in Texas, but all over America. So far, she has worked with them in Texas, Virginia, and Minnesota, but plans to work in Oklahoma and various northeastern states this upcoming summer.

Addie Burlison is the youngest person at age 17 to ever start working for PGC as a basket instructor. Usually to work as a basket instructor, one must be in the second year of college.

“PGC is a basketball camp that we have all around the country, and we don’t really call it a camp,” Burlison said. “It’s not liked any other normal basketball camp. We don’t just roll out balls and say, ‘here go play three on three or five on five’.”

Burlison has been going to PGC as a player since the summer of her sophomore year, and plans to go to at least one as a player every summer until she is out of college. At the end of her junior year summer, she was recruited to work for PGC as a basket instructor by PGC President, Mano Watsa, at a PGC in San Marcos, Texas.

“We call it a full immersion basketball leadership experience,” Burlison said. “We focus on the leadership tools and the intangible things that allow you to succeed in basketball and in life. We’re not super concerned with stats or how to perfect your jump shot. There’s so much more to basketball than that,” Burlison said. “An acronym we use is SCHAPE, it stands for Spirit, Communication, Hustle, Approach, Precision and Enhancement. These are the intangibles that we talk about that can and should be taken and used in every aspect of life, in my opinion.”

She dedicates her summers and first two or three months of the school year to working with PGC for week long courses and weekend Fall Shooting Colleges. PGC helped her tremendously in life and helped her improve her level of play. The information she learned at PGC that she took and used every day after is what allowed her to become who she is now. She prides herself on getting better every day and doing all she can to help others improve.

“PGC showed me what it would take to get to the next level. Because of the high level of training I was introduced to,” Burlison said. “I was able to better my work ethic. Even more, PGC made me realize that it didn’t matter if I was the best on my team. I just had to strive to be the best I could be every single day. This is what got me noticed and enabled me to sign a letter of intent to play college basketball at Gordon College.”

Burlison aspires to become a college coach one day and with the experience gained from working with PGC, she should be able to go on and do great things.

“Point Guard College has opened so many doors for me already,” Burlison said. “I know when I go off to start a career in coaching in the college world, PGC will have prepared me for success. It is a goal of mine to work my way up and become a PGC Director one day, too.”