In 2016 he helped organize the First International Adaptive Standing Tennis Tournament to take place in the United States, the USA TAP Open, with Houston, Texas playing host.

The USA TAP OPEN helped to popularize and pioneer a new category of tennis for individuals in the United States and abroad.

He spent the early years of his life in Belpre, Ohio in Washington County along the Little Hocking River.

[12] He worked in the hospitality industry as a waiter and associate manager at Truluck's restaurant and has a level one wine sommelier certification.

In 2014 Bourns was selected to serve on USTA Texas' adaptive and wheelchair committee charged with helping pioneer and grow the sport of tennis for amputees.

[15] He is the first person to represent the United States competing in International adaptive standing tennis tournaments.

He learned of an International adaptive standing tennis tournament to take place December 11–13, 2015 in Santiago, Chile.

[19] Bourns was instrumental to bringing the first International Adaptive Standing Tennis Tournament to the United States, the USA TAP Open, where he was an organizer and player with Houston, Texas playing host.

The USA TAP Open acted as a springboard to popularize the growth and development of a new modality of tennis for individuals in the United States and Internationally.

[22][23] In 2019 he played in his last tennis tournament at the Inaugural CAST Open in Greensboro, North Carolina where he was a finalist.

[29][30] Bourns began his adaptive sporting journey with an athletic contract from Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics in swimming and as a sprinter from 2000 to 2002.