Bio

Bridgette is going into her eleventh year of coaching and eighth year at Clackamas.  Although she started as a hurdles coach, she is now the associate head coach and responsible for the training of sprints, relays, jumps, hurdlers and multi-event athletes. Her coaching philosophy focuses on building well-rounded athletes that excel academically, professionally and athletically.

For her first year at Clackamas, she had six athletes make it to the NWAC Championships for hurdles. That year, Emerson Liburd placed second in the 400m hurdles and third in the 110m hurdles, which put him on the Clackamas top ten in both hurdles.  In 2018, She coached Essence Foster to a school record in the 400m hurdles and Jordan Gloden placed second in the 110m hurdles and fourth in the 400m hurdles. Also, in the 2018 season, she coached first time hurdler, Ethan Ferte, to place 5th in the 400m hurdles and placing again in 2019, seventh in the 400m hurdles and fifth in the 110m hurdles. In 2019, Essence Foster took the NWAC title in the 400m hurdles (for the second year in a row) and the heptathlon and Jordan Gloden took the title for the 110m hurdles (ranking him 4th all-time for Clackamas) and 2nd in the 400m hurdles.   The 2025 season produced three NWAC All-Americans (second or third place) and ten performances where athletes placed fourth to eighth.  She has coached men to run 10.83, 10.85 and 10.90 the last three years in the 100 meters. 

Coach Carpenter is a proud Clackamas Alumni. As a long and short hurdler since middle school, she finished her high school career breaking several personal records which inspired her to continue in college. She joined the Clackamas team, eventually making it to the NWAC Championships at the end of her freshman season. In her second year at Clackamas, she was a team captain and was awarded as most inspirational that season. In that year, she improved her 400m hurdles time by 4.3 seconds and placed 8^th at NWAC’s.

Coach Carpenter started her coaching career at St. Mary’s Academy in Portland, where she was an assistant for two years. Her first year as a coach, she was able to take four athletes to state and bring home three medals. In her second year, she took six athletes to state and returned with six medals.