| Email: | chase.bridges@noc.edu |
| Title: | Assistant Coach |
Chase Bridges enters his 1st season with the NOC-Enid Jets program. Chase spent the 2023-24 season at Cowley College, where he served as pitching coach and strength and conditioning coordinator. Bridges' staff finished the 2024 season ranked first in ERA (3.65), WHIP (1.18), Runs Allowed (106), and second in total strikeouts (239) during KJCCC play. Individual student-athlete accomplishments include having two All-Conference and one All-Region Pitchers. Chase helped lead the 2024 Tigers to a 43-18 overall record.
Before Cowley, Coach Bridges served as the pitching and strength and conditioning coach for Northern Oklahoma College-Tonkawa during the 2022-23 season. Chase shaped a staff that dropped the Mavs team ERA by over 2 runs per game from the previous year, along with improving many other major pitching statistics. He also had an All-Region Pitcher helping the Mavericks on their way to a 39-20 record.
Bridges played three years at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley under Coach Derek Matlock (2020-22) and two seasons under Coach Ryan Bay (2018-19) at NOC-Tonkawa.
Coach Bridges' education includes a master’s degree in kinesiology from UT Rio Grand Valley and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist certification through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. Chase and his wife Kendal reside in Enid with their son Callahan.