SOU’s Stevens voted CCC Women’s Track and Field Athlete of the Year

Published 3:33 pm Friday, May 30, 2025

By SOU Sports Information

Southern Oregon senior Abi Stevens recently wrapped up a stellar career with a heptathlon NAIA championship and a total of 15 All-America finishes. (Photo courtesy SOU Sports Information)

Wisconsin product ended stellar career with NAIA heptathlon title, 15th All-America finish after taking 4th in high jump

ASHLAND — Southern Oregon’s Abi Stevens will go out on top as the Cascade Conference Women’s Track and Field Athlete of the Year, earning the distinction on Friday following a vote by the circuit’s head coaches.

Stevens’ legendary Raider career concluded at last week’s NAIA Outdoor Championships, where she won her first heptathlon national championship and added on a 15th career All-America award with a fourth-place finish in the high jump. Three months earlier, she won her first NAIA Indoor pentathlon title and finished sixth in the high jump.

The product of West Allis, Wis., will leave SOU with more All-America honors than any athlete in program history. She was a top-eight placer in every single national competition she entered, indoor and outdoor, over four seasons.

Stevens is the sixth SOU women’s track and field athlete to receive the top CCC honor. The most recent was sprinter Arianna Daniel in 2021.

At the 2025 CCC Championships, she dominated with four all-conference performances — taking first in the heptathlon, second in the 100-meter hurdles, and third in both the high jump and long jump — and accounted for 30 of SOU’s 60 team points. In four career appearances at the CCC, she garnered 13 All-CCC honors.

Stevens established seven new personal bests this season: in the 200 meters (25.54 seconds), 60-meter hurdles, 100 hurdles (14.79), high jump (5 feet, 8 ¾ inches), long jump (18-7 ¼), shot put (34-9) and pentathlon (3,824 points).

Her top heptathlon score of 5,205, established at last year’s NAIA Outdoor Championships, is the best in SOU history by a margin of 73 points. She stands at No. 2 on SOU’s all-time high jump and long jump lists.

Stevens also competed this season for the first time in cross country, helping the Raiders finish second at the CCC Championship and 16th at the NAIA Championship.

She’s been a perennial Academic All-CCC team selection, having majored in health and exercise science.