The Oregonian · Apr 28, 2017
Oregon Duck sprinter Deajah Stevens has Olympic speed and growing confidence
Oregon's Deajah Stevens burst onto the international scene last summer, when she made the U.S. Olympic team in the 200 meters.EUGENE - Deajah Stevens didn't expect to make the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team.
In fact, she didn't expect to run in the Olympic Trials.
"I didn't feel like I could be in the race with the time I had," she says. "I was like, 'I have more work to do.' And I was fine with that."
A mid-year transfer to the University of Oregon from the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California, Stevens clearly was talented but still acclimating last spring.
