University of the Incarnate Word Athletics

Dashena Stevens currently serves as the Deputy Director of Athletics and has been a member of the department's senior administrative staff since joining the cardinal family in Jan 2021. Among her primary duties, Stevens oversees several athletic department operations, including budget and business operations, human resources management, facilities, and event operations. She also oversees several sports programs. 

Stevens came to UIW following two years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was the business services coordinator for athletics. In that position, Stevens assisted in preparing, administering, and monitoring an annual budget of $110 million. She also audited and processed various forms of payment, including travel reimbursements, expense reports, and purchasing card charges for the department via the University's accounting system. Stevens worked closely with the men's and women's basketball programs, the football program, and other departments in athletics to ensure journal entries were completed and processed accurately. Additionally, she handled the independent contractor's process for volleyball, men's soccer, men's basketball, and tennis while managing the Aramark contract and reconciling revenue commissions totaling $1.3 million.

 Prior to UNC, Stevens was an assistant women's basketball coach from 2015-18 at her alma mater, St. John's. As an assistant coach, Stevens helped guide the Red Storm to a Big East championship.

Before joining the coaching ranks at St. John's, Stevens was the director of business and finance at Wagner College from 2014-15. While at Wagner, she helped monitor an annual athletics budget of more than $16 million, supported coaches and directors in budget planning and management by providing weekly and monthly financial reporting, and prepared and conducted the EADA and NCAA surveys for the department. She also liaised between the college business office, human resources, and information technology departments for processing paperwork. Prior to Wagner, She worked as an account payable associate at Glencore LTD (2013) and an assurance associate at McGladrey, LLP (2014).

Stevens graduated Cum Laude with a bachelor's degree in accounting from St. John's University, where she also played on the women's basketball team. Stevens finished her career as one of the most decorated players in St. John's history after scoring 1,515 points, grabbing 815 rebounds, and was named a Big East Scholar-Athlete. In addition, Stevens was inducted into the St. John's University Hall of Fame in 2020. Following her playing days at St. John's, Stevens played professionally for BCF Elfic Fribourg Basket – Ligue Nationale de Basketball (Switzerland-LNA) in Fribourg, Switzerland. She earned a Master of Science in athletic administration from North Carolina Central in December 2020.