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Once called the “Chadron Boy Champ” by the Omaha World-Herald, Bartlett had a brief, but brilliant, collegiate tennis career, and is the only tennis player to be inducted into the CSC Athletic Hall of Fame. He is a Chadron native who grew up on Main Street, only a half block from the northern edge of the Chadron State campus. He credits his mother for teaching him how to play on the courts that were where the Nelson Physical Activity Center is now located.
Bartlett won the Nebraska Intercollegiate Athletic Association singles tennis championship in 1941 when he was a sophomore at CSC and won nine of the 10 matches he played while he was in college. Tennis, like all other sports at the college, was discontinued at the end of 1941 because of World War II. Bartlett played tennis for many years afterwards. In the early 1980s, he returned to his hometown to play in several tournaments, including a couple that were inside the NPAC.
Bartlett has been a successful insurance agent in Denver for many years.