North Beach’s Caleb Bridge Excels in Both Sports and Academics

Published by Gail Wood/Gray's Harbor Talk April 27, 2015

Robert Frost, America’s renowned poet, once wrote about the road not taken, about choosing between paths and regretting not being able to follow both.

Caleb Bridge has avoided that troubling quandary. He’s taken both paths.

Caleb Bridge, with his dad and throwing coach, Todd Bridge watching, uncorks a 55.6 in the shot put to win the event at the Chehalis Classic and set a school record.

In the classroom, Caleb, a senior at North Beach High School, is a 4.0-student, last getting a “B” in elementary school. In athletics, Caleb, who is 6-foot-4 and 270 pounds, was a two-way, all-state selection in football as a lineman. In two recent back-to-back track meets, Caleb broke a handful of records, including his school and meet records in the shot put and discus.

He’s a brainiac who is athletic, a true definition of a student-athlete.

“My parents definitely taught me how important grades are,” Caleb said. “They instilled the work ethic into me. It’s always been my goal to be a 4.0 student.”

His parents never had to say, Caleb turn the TV off and do your homework. “We don’t have TV,” Caleb said. “We just never got it.”