Aspen Burkett was a seven-time All-American (four relays and three individual races) during her Illini track and field career. She won seven individual and relay Big Ten Championships and helped the Illini to the 1995 Indoor and Outdoor, and 1996 Indoor team titles. Burkett is still the UI 100-meter dash school record holder at 11.28 and second on the 200-meter list at 22.90. Burkett finished fifth in the 200m at the 1995 NCAA Outdoor meet, eighth in the 200m at the 1996 meet and 10th in the 100m in 1996. Her 4x100m relay teams finished sixth in the 1998 NCAA outdoor meet and third in both the 1995 and 1996 outdoor championship meets. Her 4x400m relay team took eighth place indoors in 1998. The Illini 4x400m relay team won the Big Ten title outdoors in 1995 and Big Ten indoor title in 1996. Burkett doubled up with 100m and 200m Big Ten titles outdoors in 1995, while running on the championship 4x100m relay team that year. She defended her title in the 200m and 4x100m relay in 1996 and won a third Big Ten 4x100m relay title outdoors in 1998. Burkett and fellow Hall-of-Famer Benita Kelley were members of the same recruiting class for coach Gary Winckler and lived as roommates during their time on campus.