Parker Burgess spent three seasons with the Lumberjacks. Two and a half years as the head coach, culminating with the 2025 Clark Cup Championship. During his time in Muskeon, Burgess led the Jacks to a 92-62-7-5 (.565) regular season record, and a 14-6-2 Â (.636) postseason record.
Burgess was hired as the Associate Head Coach ahead of the 2022-23 season and promoted to the Head Coaching role in December of the same season.
Burgess came to Muskegon after previously serving as head coach and assistant general manager of the Janesville Jets in the North American Hockey League (NAHL) for the last two seasons. In his first season in Janesville, Burgess piloted the Jets to a Midwest Division championship with a 31-13-4-0 record in the regular season, earning him the Midwest Division Coach of the Year award. In 2021-22, Burgess’s Jets racked up an 11-game win streak at the height of the season and finished just over .500 with a 34-25-0-1 record. In his two seasons behind the bench as head coach in Janesville, Burgess recorded a 66-41-4-1 record and was promoted to assistant general manager for the Jets at the conclusion of the 2021-22 season.
Before his time with the Jets, the Calgary, Alberta native was the head coach of Nichols College for five years. He guided the Bison to a 74-48-13 record, including a Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Championship in 2017-18, while simultaneously turning Nichols College into an NCAA D-III hockey powerhouse in the national rankings.
Prior to Nichols, Burgess spent four seasons at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota, his alma mater, as associate head coach and recruiting coordinator for the Tommies.
Before moving behind the bench, the left-handed centerman played one season of NCAA D-I hockey with Robert Morris University in 2006-07 before transferring to NCAA D-III St. Thomas in 2007-08, where he skated in 50 games with the Tommies, scoring 20 goals and 21 assists for 41 points.
