Age Makes Little Difference To Teen Bridge Player
The average age of members of the American Contract Bridge League is 64. But Stephen Drodge, who last year won the North American Bridge Championship's National 99er Pairs event, is 18.
Drodge tells Robert Siegel the age difference is not awkward.
"You eventually start to get maybe a little bit tired of hearing, 'It's so great to see young people playing' all the time," he says. "But people are generally fairly nice."
Drodge says he and his partner at the event, Andrew Rodriguez, began playing bridge 2 1/2 years ago while sophomores at Thomas Jefferson School for Science and Technology, a magnet school in northern Virginia.
"We have an unusually long bus ride ... and being a bunch of nerds and nothing to do on the bus naturally leads to something nerdy to do on the bus," Drodge says.
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