Bobbi Bridges has been a part of NAIA title teams as a coach and a player at Oklahoma City University. She is in her 16th season assisting coach Phil McSpadden, the all-time leader in wins vs. four-year schools in college softball, in all aspects of the program.
In her 15 years coaching at OCU, the Stars have averaged 53 wins per year. She has contributed to three national championships, two national runner-up finishes, 14 NAIA Softball World Series appearances, eight Sooner Athletic Conference regular-season titles and nine conference tournament crowns. Bridges has mentored two NAIA player of the year honorees, 49 all-Americans, five NFCA NAIA catchers of the year, six SAC player of the year recipients, five league pitcher of the year award winners, one SAC newcomer of the year and three conference freshmen of the year. She has been honored along with OCU’s other coaches in being awarded NFCA national coaching staff of the year five times and regional coaching staff of the year seven times.
She played for McSpadden at OCU from 1994-98, helping OCU win four consecutive NAIA championships. She was selectÂed as a first-team NAIA all-American catcher in 1997 and 1998.
Prior to her return to the OCU softball program, Bridges spent two years as the assistant coach at Blinn College in BrenÂham, Texas.
A native of Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, Bridges set NAIA Championships records with two home runs in a game and eight total bases in a game. She set those records against Mobile (Ala.) in 1997. Bridges once played for the Team Canada softball program.
Bridges is married to Prince Bridges.
