NATCHITOCHES – For those looking to honor late Northwestern State men's basketball coach and director of athletics Tynes Hildebrand, a link has been set up to donate to his namesake scholarship.
 
Services for Hildebrand, 93, are set for Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Natchitoches. A visitation with the family will begin at 2 p.m. at the church.
 
The family has asked in lieu of flowers that donations be made to the Tynes Hildebrand Athletic Scholarship at NSU.
 
To donate online, visit this link. For physical donations, send checks to:
 
NSU Athletics
Attn: Scott Maggio
468 Caspari Street
Natchitoches, LA 71497
 
The check should be made to the Demons Unlimited Foundation and have "Tynes Hildebrand Scholarship" on the memo line.
 
A member of the N-Club Hall of Fame, the Southland Conference Hall of Honor, the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame and Northwestern State's Long Purple Line, Hildebrand was a two-sport letterman (basketball, track and field) as an undergraduate and a two-time graduate of Northwestern State.
 
He spent 16 seasons as Northwestern State's men's basketball coach, winning 191 games – the third-highest total in school history – while guiding Northwestern State into its Division I era. He transitioned into administration, serving 13 years as the school's director of athletics.