Immediately after the nationals, she flew to Australia where she was due to compete at last week's Australian Junior Athletics Championships in Sydney, according to her dad, William.
"She is also a key member of the NZ under-20 4x100m relay squad which hopes to qualify during late March, for the world junior champs in Finland in July," Mr Stephenson said.
It had been a long road to recovery for his daughter, suffering the severe knee injury when a landing on the netball court went "horribly wrong".
Along with many other partial tears and stretched ligaments, she ruptured her ACL, which had to be replaced with a patella tendon graft.
"This procedure takes two full years to fully mature, so she has a few months to go yet."
After the surgery by "amazing" North Shore knee surgeon Dr Mat Brick, Mr Stephenson said there were signs his daughter was returning to top sprinting speed when she competed at the NZ Secondary Schools athletics champs in Hastings last December.
But Briana had been still struggling with her favourite event - the long jump.
"Then in Hamilton, her form came back," he said.
Mr Stephenson said his daughter, a former boarder at Napier Girls High School, where she still held 13 athletics records, was in her first year studying physiotherapy at AUT University in Auckland, where she was also training full-time under Russian athletics coach Elena Brown.