Name	Stephanie Brown Trafton
Height	6'4
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	December 1, 1979
Place of Birth	San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Famous for

Olympic return
Stephanie Brown-Trafton will represent the United States at the Olympics for the second time in her career this summer in Beijing, where she will compete in the women's discus. Abnormally tall for a discus thrower at 6-foot-4, Brown-Trafton actually got her Olympic inspiration from watching someone much shorter, gymnast Mary Lou Retton compete in the 1984 Games.

Beijing bound
Brown-Trafton qualified for her second Olympics with a third-place finish at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, where she threw 62.65m/205-6. It was the high point of what has been a stellar 2008 season. Brown-Trafton opened the year with a personal-best throw of 217-1 in a victory in Salinas.

Monster throw
Brown-Trafton qualified for Athens by finishing second in the discus at 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials. Her first throw of 203-1 was the one that qualified her -- she fouled on her following five throws. The throw was not only a personal-best by about nine feet, but it gave her the "A" qualifying standard necessary to compete in Athens. Her runner-up finish at Trials was truly a surprise - prior to 2004, Brown had never finished better than eighth at a U.S. outdoor national championships.

Big dreams, tiny inspiration
A notably tall discus thrower at 6-foot-4, Brown-Trafton has wanted to be an Olympian ever since the age of four, when she watched Mary Lou Retton compete in the 1984 Olympics, and her father bought her a Mary Lou Retton leotard.