Cika wannan jumlar: A matsayin dan wasan tsere, Burns ya wakilci Amurka a gasar 1992 (Barcelona), 1996 (
Atlanta), da 2000 (Sydney) Wasannin Paralympic, sun sami lambar zinare biyu, lambar azurfa biyu, da lambar tagulla ɗaya. Ya kafa tarihin duniya guda 5 a wasan motsa jiki na Paralympic da kuma bayanan kasa da yawa. Da ya yi ritaya daga wasannin Paralympics a 2004, ya koma wasanni na jimiri; Burns ya kammala tseren IronMan na Koriya ta 2006 da tseren Half-IronMan na Singapore a 2007, 2010, 2011, da 2012. Burns kuma mai son nutsewa ne, mai hawan igiyar ruwa, mai yawo, mai keken hannu da kuma tseren dusar ƙanƙara.