Kennedy Valentine Burke (born February 14, 1997), also known as Beren Burke, is an American-Turkish professional basketball player for the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and for ÇBK Mersin of the Turkish Super League. She played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins. She was drafted by the Dallas Wings in the 2019 WNBA draft, and has played for the Indiana Fever, Seattle Storm, Washington Mystics, and the New York Liberty in the WNBA.

Early life Burke is from Northridge, Los Angeles. Her father played professional basketball in the Mexican league and competed for the Panamanian national team. Burke attended Sierra Canyon School in nearby Chatsworth. She has an older sister, Kody Burke, who played college basketball at NC State.

Career Burke played for UCLA in college. She was drafted No. 22 overall by the Dallas Wings in 2019.

In 2026 Burke signed as a free agent with the Connecticut Sun.

Overseas Burke began her international career in Turkey, playing for Bellona Kayseri Basketbol in the Super League where she averaged 18 points and eight rebounds a game; Kayseri also played in the truncated 2020–21 EuroCup Women competition.

During the 2020–2021 season, Burke played for the Lega Basket Femminile team Dinamo Sassari in Italy. The following year she played for Spar Girona in the Spanish league; they competed in the 2021–22 EuroLeague Women season.

In 2022, Burke joined ESB Villeneuve-d'Ascq in France's Ligue Féminine de Basketball. She has become a breakout star in the league and was named its Most Valuable Player two years in a row (2023, 2024). The team played in the EuroCup and the 2023 EuroLeague Qualifying Round; for the 2023–2024 season, the team was promoted to the EuroLeague and were the runner-ups of the season. Burke was named All-EuroLeague Second Team and MVP of the Month in December, among other honors.

During the 2024–2025 season, Burke played for OGM Ormanspor of the Turkish Super League.

She signed with Çukurova Basketbol for the 2025–26 season.

International career In March 2026, Burke acquired Turkish citizenship, adopting the given name Beren and subsequently began playing for the Turkey women's national basketball team in the 2026 FIBA Women's Basketball World Cup Qualifying Tournaments.

Career statistics

†Denotes season(s) in which Burke won a WNBA championship

WNBA Regular season Stats current through end of 2026 season

| align="left" | 2019 | align="left" | Indiana | 31 || 7 || 13.6 || .385 || .350 || .705 || 1.5 || 0.7 || 0.6 || 0.3 || 0.7 || 4.4 |- | align="left" | 2020 | align="left" | Indiana | 22 || 11 || 18.3 || .449 || .313 || .714 || 1.8 || 1.1 || 0.6 || 0.4 || 1.2 || 7.2 |- | align="left" | 2021 | align="left" | Seattle | 23 || 0 || 7.7 || .446 || .333 || .625 || 0.8 || 0.3 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 0.5 || 2.9 |- | align="left" | 2022 | align="left" | Washington | 16 || 4 || 13.9 || .446 || .344 || .588 || 2.2 || 0.4 || 1.0 || 0.3 || 0.5 || 5.4 |- class="sortbottom" | align="left" | 2023 | colspan=13 align="center" |Did not appear in WNBA |- | style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|2024† | align="left" | New York |38||3||12.1||.409||.259||.667||1.5||0.9||0.6||0.3||0.7||3.4 |- | align="left" | 2025 | align="left" | New York | 36 || 9 || 21.6 || .468 || .414 || .759 || 2.4 || 1.3 || 0.8 || 0.4 || 0.9 || 8.1 |- | align="left" | 2026 | align="left" | Connecticut | 37 || 14 || 23.8 || .401 || .324 || .713 || 3.2 || 1.4 || 1.2 || 0.8 || 1.5 || 8.8 |- class="sortbottom" | align="left" | Career | align="left" | 7 years, 5 teams | 203 || 48 || 16.5 || .427 || .341 || .706 || 2.0 || 0.9 || 0.7 || 0.4 || 0.9 || 5.9

Playoffs

| align="left" | 2021 | align="left" | Seattle | 1 || 0 || 5.0 ||—||—||—|| 3.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 1.0 || 0.0 |- | style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"|2024† | align="left" | New York | 6 ||0||7.5||.182||.167||.250||1.7||0.5||0.2||0.2||0.3||1.0 |- | align="left" | 2025 | align="left" | New York | 3 || 0 || 17.3 || .263 || .091 || .750 || 2.3 || 0.3 || 0.3 || 0.7 || 2.0 || 4.7 |- class="sortbottom" | align="left" | Career | align="left" | 3 years, 2 teams | 10 || 0 || 10.2 || .233 || .118 || .500 || 2.0 || 0.4 || 0.2 || 0.3 || 0.9 || 2.0

College

|2015–16 | style="text-align:center;"|UCLA |35||0||18.5||.409||.323||.566||3.7||1.0||1.3||0.7||1.4||5.8 |- |2016–17 | style="text-align:center;"|UCLA |34||29||29.3||.457||.286||.663||4.9||1.9||1.9||1.1||2.1||12.2 |- |2017–18 | style="text-align:center;"|UCLA |35||34||29.5||.434||.296||.728||4.3||2.2||1.7||0.9||1.8||10.6 |- |2018–19 | style="text-align:center;"|UCLA |34||34||32.7||.488||.296||.732||6.2||2.3||2.0||0.9||2.3||15.4 |- class="sortbottom" | style="text-align:center;" colspan=2|Career |138||97||27.4||.454||.298||.690||4.8||1.9||1.7||0.9||1.9|| 11.0

Awards and honors Overseas Ligue Féminine de Basketball

2x Most Valuable Player (2023, 2024) 2x Major 5 Trophy (2023, 2024) EuroLeague Women All-EuroLeague Second Team (2024) 2x MVP of the Month (2023, 2025) 2x Team of the Month (2023–2024) 4x MVP of the Round (2023–2024)

References

External links UCLA Bruins bio