2024 Awards
Northwest Conference Honorable Mention: Running Back
2024 Stats (Season High Plays In Parentheses)
Games: 10
Rushes/Yards/Average: 113 Rushes for 612 Yards, 5.4 Yard Average, 3 Touchdowns (41 Yards vs. Puget Sound 9/7)
Receptions/Yards/Average: 14 for 107 Yards, 7.6 Average, 2 Touchdowns (44 Yards vs. Montana Western 9/21)
Passes/Yards/Touchdowns/Completion %: 2-2 for 61 Yards, 1 Touchdown, 100% (34 Yards vs Pacific 10/19)
- Served as the team’s lead running back in his sophomore campaign
- Led the Pioneers in rushing yards and finished tied for second on the team in rushing touchdowns
- Placed third on the team with 719 all-purpose yards
- Totaled six touchdowns during his sophomore campaign
- Posted three 100-yard rushing games
- Opened the season with 110 rushing yards and a touchdown on 12 carries against Puget Sound in the season opener
- Racked up 109 rushing yards and a touchdown on 18 carries in a Homecoming win over Pacific
- Recorded a career-high 134 rushing yards (10.3 yards per carry) and added 20 receiving yards and a touchdown in a road win over Puget Sound on November 9
2023 Stats (Season High Plays In Parentheses)
Games: 9
Rushes/Yards/Average: 26 for 139 Yards, 5.3 Yard Average, 1 Touchdown (16 Yards vs. Whitworth 10/28)
Receptions/Yards: 5 for 27 Yards, 5 Touchdowns (13 Yards vs Whitworth 10/28)
Total Yards: 166 Yards (36 yards two times)
- Carved out a role in the Pioneers running back rotation during his freshman season
- Finished second on the team in yards per carry (5.3), third in carries and fourth in rushing yards
- Rushed for 20 yards or more in a game four times
- Made his collegiate debut in the season opener at Puget Sound and rushed twice for six yards
- Rushed four times for a career-high 29 yards and added his first collegiate touchdown and first two collegiate catches (seven yards) against #6/8 Linfield on October 7
- Posted two rushes for 23 yards and a career-long catch of 13 yards against Whitworth on October 28
Prior to Lewis & Clark: Full name is Donald "Chili" Stephens ... Attended Lakeridge High School … Played 7 on 7 football with Team Lillard Football and also varsity basketball … Earned First Team All-Conference for the Portland Interscholastic League (PIL) while leading Grant High School to the PIL Championship as a junior … Named the Grant High School Offensive Player of the Year as a sophomore … Received Second Team Three Rivers League recognition as a senior at Lakeridge High School … Named Honorable Mention as a kick returner as a senior … Won the Jordan Wings Scholarship Award … Played in the 2022 Les Schwab Bowl as one of the top high school players in the state of Oregon.
Why Lewis & Clark?: I
felt like I've gone here before.
