blank  Bridget Tidwell
	Class: Freshman Hometown: Crawford, Texas High School: Crawford HS Height: 5-8 Event: Distance Experience: HS

2000 CROSS COUNTRY: Consistent freshman who ran in seven races during campaign ... Finished seventh at season-opening ACU Classic (9/1) in time of 20:23.57 ... Took fifth at Red Raider Open (9/9) with mark of 20:06 ... Finished 17th at Sundodger Invitational (9/23) with mark of 22:15.60 ... Posted 20th-place finish at Cowboy Jamboree (9/30) in time of 18:49 ... Finished in time of 25:04.5 at Pre-National Meet (10/14) ... Posted mark of 22:29 at Big 12 Championships (10/28) for 42nd ... Took 45th at NCAA Mountain Regionals (11/11) with time of 23:03.9.

HIGH SCHOOL: 2000 graduate of Crawford High School in Crawford, Texas ... Teams won back-to-back 2A cross country state championships in 1998 and '99 ... Also part of third-place in state basketball tournament in 1998 ... Named all-state in cross country ... Best time in 1,600 is 5:02, 3,200 is 11:07 ... Member of BETA club and Spanish club ... Member of cross country, track, basketball and golf teams.

PERSONAL: Born May 8, 1982, in Waco, Texas ... Daughter of Doc and Brenda Tidwell ... Undecided major.