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.
She had made a spot for herself on the Ducks' fast 4x100 and 4x400 relays, and was good enough to place second in the 200 meters at last year's Pac-12 Championships.