At the age of eighteen, Burgener moved from Kansas to Colorado Springs, Colorado to work and train as a resident athlete at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (USOC), under her head coach Zygmunt Smalcerz, gold medalist for the flyweight division at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, representing Poland.
Zygmunt Bauman | Zygmunt Krasiński | Zygmunt Pieda | '''Zygmunt Zaremba''' as a witness during court proceedings (Brest trials | Zygmunt Staszczyk | Zygmunt Smalcerz | Zygmunt Puławski | Zygmunt Krauze | Zygmunt Waliszewski | Zygmunt Steuermann | Zygmunt Latoszewski | Jan Zygmunt Skrzynecki |