Deborah Lynn OCHS

Debra Ochs attended Arizona State University where she won the 1984 and 1986 intercollegiate championship. She grew up on a farm in Howell, Michigan, a small town between Detroit and Lansing, where her parents raised quarter-horses. Ochs was US Champion in 1987 and won two golds and three silver medals at the 1983 Pan American Games. She competed at the 1989 World Championships, placing ninth individually and fifth with the team. She later worked in the Detroit area in packaging and freight delivery.