Publication Date
1-3-2017
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.
Duration
00:25:24
Keywords
memoir
Disciplines
Higher Education | Sports Sciences
Recommended Citation
Bridges '61, Dennie, "Dennie Bridges" (2017). All oral histories. 70.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/oral_hist/70
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
on the basketball court
Bridges_1997_bookstore_brochure.jpg (462 kB)
Taken to highlight NCAA Basketball National Championship memorabilia
Comments
Launch the recording with the embedded player below. Coach Bridges wrote these remembrances before recording them and they are available for download.
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.