| Title: | Graduate Manager |
Entering her first season with the Tennessee Tech Women's Basketball program, Lilly Bridges joins the Golden Eagle staff with valuable experience to help the program reach new heights.
Bridges, a recent graduate from the University of Georgia in Health and Physical Education, has experience coaching and teaching. In 2021, she served as an assistant junior varsity and varsity girls basketball coach at North Oconee High School before spending 2022 to 2024 as the JV girls basketball head coach and varsity assistant. Brides also had student teaching experience at Oconee County Primary School and Dove Creek Middle.
She has also been visible in the community as she worked with UGA's VI and Adaptive Field Days and a volunteer coach for Hoop Troop. She was also involved with the Whatever It Takes tutoring and mentoring program, Morgan County (Ga.) Humane Society, UGA Miracle and the National Juvenile Arthritis Foundation.
A highly-decorated student at UGA, Bridges was named the SHAPE Major of the Year for 2023-24, the 2024 Joan B. Neal Scholarship Award winner, the 2024 Clifford Gray Lewis Scholarship Award winner, a multiple-time member of the UGA Dean's List and on the UGA Mary Frances Early College of Education President's List.
At Gatewood High, Bridges was the 2019 salutatorian, while earning the school's Best Offensive Player award and the Athlete of the Year honor.
