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2001: Stevenson, a reliable and experienced junior wide receiver, will battle for key playing time in 2001. 2000: Stevenson was an often-used backup to Kareem Kelly at wide receiver (split end), as well as a special teams player, as a sophomore in 2000. He even started 2 games (California and Washington State). Overall in 2000 while appearing in all 12 games, he caught 15 passes for 283 yards (team-high 18.9 avg.) with 2 TDs. He also returned 3 kickoffs for 43 yards (14.3 avg.), picked up a blocked punt and ran it 3 yards for a TD (at Arizona State) and made 3 tackles. His only reception against San Jose State (a 28-yarder) proved crucial in USC’s game-winning scoring drive (he also returned a pair of kickoffs for 31 yards). He had a career-high 4 catches for 49 yards against Arizona, then a 10-yard grab at Stanford and 2 catches for 18 yards versus California. Against Washington State, he equalled his career best in catches (4) for a career-high 77 yards, including getting his first Trojan TD grab (a 30-yarder). He then had 2 catches for 70 yards at UCLA, with a career-long 57-yard TD, and 1 reception for 31 yards against Notre Dame. 1999: Stevenson was an often-used reserve freshman wide receiver in 1999, his first year at USC. He appeared in 11 games in 1999 (all but the San Diego State contest, which he missed because of a strained left big toe suffered in practice) and even started at Oregon, becoming the first freshman since Johnnie Morton in 1990 and the first true freshman since Randy Tanner in 1984 to start for USC at wide receiver. Overall in 1999, he had 6 catches for 85 yards (14.2 avg.) and returned 1 kickoff for 13 yards (at Hawaii). He had 2 receptions for a then-career-high 51 yards at Oregon. He threw a key block to spring Kareem Kelly for a 72-yard TD catch at California. HIGH SCHOOOL: He was named a 1998 Super Prep All-American, USA Today All-USA honorable mention, ESPN Top 100, Rivalnet Top 100, Super Prep All-Farwest, Prep Star All-Western, Long Beach Press-Telegram Best in the West first team, Orange County Register Fab 15 second team, Tacoma News Tribune Western 100, Las Vegas Sun Super 11 honorable mention, Cal-Hi Sports All-State first team, All-CIF Southern Section first team, All-CIF Division VII Offensive MVP, Los Angeles Times All-San Gabriel Valley, San Gabriel Valley Tribune All-Valley MVP and All-Miramonte League MVP as a senior at Charter Oak High in Covina (Calif.). In 1998, he had 35 receptions for 758 yards (21.7 avg.) and 10 TDs as a wide receiver, 743 yards on 100 carries (7.4 avg.) with 14 TDs as a running back and 89 tackles, 3 sacks, 6 interceptions, 5 deflections and 1 blocked punt on defense. He also returned 10 kickoffs for 300 yards (30.0 avg.) with 1 TD and 11 punts for 119 yards (10.8 avg.). He scored 16 touchdowns during Charter Oak’s playoff run to the CIF Division VII championship. As a 1997 junior, he made the All-CIF Southern Section second team, All-CIF Division VI first team, San Gabriel Valley Tribune All-Valley and All-Miramonte League first team while catching 62 passes for 1,429 yards (23.0 avg.) and 12 scores on offense and 47 tackles, 4 interceptions and 5 deflections on defense. He had 11 catches for 296 yards (26.9 avg.) and 5 scores as a 1996 sophomore, plus 24 tackles, 5 interceptions, 1 deflection on defense and 5 kickoff returns for 135 yards (27.0 avg.) and 1 TD while earning All-Miramonte League first team honors. In his career, he blocked 14 kicks, scored touchdowns of 80-plus yards 5 times, once scored 6 TDs in a game, and averaged 35.0 yards on kickoff returns and 15.0 yards on punt returns. He set school game, season and career records for most receptions, receiving yards, receiving touchdowns and blocked kicks. Current Trojan David Boler also prepped at Charter Oak. He also was on Charter Oak’s track team, where he competed in the 100 meters (10.9 best), long jump and triple jump, and basketball team (earning All-League at forward). PERSONAL: He’s majoring in social science education at USC. He and 3 of his Trojan teammates—Bernard Riley, Malcolm Wooldridge and Kyle Matthews—received national attention for coming to the aid of a USC student who fell out of her apartment window on Sept. 1, 2000 and became impaled on the spikes of a security fence.
Being a leader: “I want to be called out so I can go out there and prove I can perform. I want that challenge. It’s something I like, being a leader. That is my best quality. I’m a leader vocally, emotionally, whatever way at the time to show what I can do.”
Helping rescue the USC student who fell out her window and became impaled: “It didn’t look real. We all kind of went into shock. But we reacted and just did what anybody would do.”
Playing right away as a freshman: “I wouldn’t call it pressure. I would call it a challenge.”
STEVE STEVENSON
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