Augsburg University Athletics

Mike Burkhardt '81 played two seasons of men’s hockey and baseball at Augsburg, in hockey as a goalie on two MIAC championship teams (1979-80 and 1980-81), in addition to winning the NAIA national championship in the 1981 season. In 42 career games over two seasons, he compiled a 35-7 record with a 3.68 goals-against-average and .844 save percentage, putting him in the top 10 in school history in each career category (third in wins, eighth in GAA, seventh in save percentage). Burkhardt earned All-MIAC honorable-mention honors in 1980 and All-MIAC honors in 1981, while also earning team MVP and NAIA All-American honors in 1981. In baseball, he played two seasons as a catcher for the Auggies, serving as a team co-captain his senior year. He played two seasons at the University of Minnesota before transferring to Augsburg in his junior year. Burkhardt served as an assistant coach for Augsburg’s men’s hockey team for four seasons (2004-08). He also was a high school hockey head coach for the Minneapolis Marshall-University and Minneapolis North high school teams from 1982-85, was a football assistant coach at Minneapolis Marshall in 1980-81, and was a volunteer assistant coach and goalie coach at Minnehaha Academy in 2003-04. He also played on a senior men’s hockey national championship team in 1986. He has also served as a baseball instructor for the Solid Foundation Baseball School since 2005, and as a coach in several sports in both Burnsville and Minneapolis for the past decade. Burkhardt graduated from Augsburg in 1981 with a finance major, and has worked in various finance and accounting positions, including at the Fingerhut Corporation from 1992-2002, and most recently at the UnitedHealth Group (2002-present), where he is the Vice President of Finance for Capital Reporting. He has also served as treasurer for R.O.C.K. Ministries of Minneapolis since 2007. Burkhardt and his wife, Sheryl, have three children – Hillary, Ellen and Mark – and live in Burnsville, Minn.