Publication Date

1-3-2017

Comments

Launch the recording with the embedded player below. Coach Bridges wrote these remembrances before recording them and they are available for download above and to the right.

In 2002, Bridges published a book about his years as IWU's Basketball coach: A Dunk Only Counts Two Points: Stories of My Life in Small College Basketball. In 2006 he published a memoir of his youth, Kids Don't Bat Rocks Anymore. Both are available in The Ames Library.

Abstract

Bridges was a first generation college student and recalls the effect that being a student-athlete from a small farm town had on him. Throughout this narrative he reflects on the people and programs that had an impact on his success as a student and on lettering in three sports. After graduation, Bridges started as a basketball and tennis coach; he served IWU as Athletic Director from 1982-2015.

Streaming Media

Duration

00:25:24

Keywords

memoir

Disciplines

Higher Education | Sports Sciences

bridges_1961 game.jpg (637 kB)
on the basketball court

Bridges_1997_bookstore_brochure.jpg (462 kB)
Taken to highlight NCAA Basketball National Championship memorabilia

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