Meg Stone began her coaching career at the University of Arizona in 1984.
Stone came to the USA from her native Scotland to take up a scholarship in
track and field. During her tenure at the University of Arizona she won seven
national titles in the shot and discus at the NCAA Division 1 level. Meg still
holds the NCAA Division 1 national records in the shot put (18.99/63ft 4ins) and
the discus (67.48/221ft 3ins).

After an illustrious career in track and field she took the position of Head
Strength and Conditioning coach at the University of Arizona to become the
first ever female Head Strength and Conditioning coach at a Division 1 football
playing institution. Meg was Director of the full program but particularly
football, baseball, and basketball. From 1984 to 1993 she also coached the
women’s track and field team, her specialty being the throwing events.
During the 1991 season when Meg coached Carla Garrett to double national
championships in the shot and discus, she became one of a few individuals to
have been a double national champion and to have coached a double national
champion at the Division 1 level.

Meg then moved to Texas Tech University to take the position of Director of
Strength and Conditioning. Having spent three very profitable years in Lubbock
culminating in the football team having its first-ever appearance in the
Cotton Bowl, Meg moved back in to coaching Track and Field at Appalachian
State University working with the throwers and sprinters. In 1999 she moved
back to her native Scotland to be appointed the National High Performance
Coach/Director for Track and Field. This position placed her in the position of
having national duties with UK Athletics. She was appointed to be one of the
coaches to lead the UK Team in the European Championships and also lead a
team of coaches in preparation for the Commonwealth games in Manchester,
England. She also had coaching duties in Sydney, Australia, and the World
Championships in Seville, Spain.

On her return to the USA in 2002 she took some time to work with the
Carmichael training systems led by Chris Carmichael, coach to the Tour de
France winner Lance Armstrong. Her next stop was as the Coaching Manager to
the U.S. Olympic Committee and then on to East Tennessee State University.
She made an immediate impact at ETSU. In her first season she coached
Guy Hornsby to an Atlantic Sun all conference selection in the weight throw.
Hornsby earned the selection by shattering the school record with a throw of
47ft -5ins. Stone also coached a trio of freshmen to scoring performances at the
Indoor A-Sun Championships in the shot and weight throw.

In her second year of coaching her freshman recruits re-wrote the record books
in the Men’s Shot, Men’s Weight, Men and Women’s Hammer and Women’s
Discus. Her freshman male thrower Jarrod Burton won the A-Sun Conference
in the Shot, and placed in the Hammer, Javelin and Discus. Her female recruit
Zachlynn Blackburn won both the Discus and the Hammer in the A- Sun
Conference. As a result of these accomplishments they were named Male and
Female Freshmen of the Year in the Conference.

Her husband, Dr. Mike Stone, is the Director of the Exercise and Sport Science
Lab at ETSU. He is responsible for consulting with Meg on the program, leading
to a very successful collaboration between the sport and the sport science.