Meg Ritchie

Born in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Ritchie won the Scottish championships in discus seven times and in shot put she won three Scottish titles. She also won the UK Championships four times in the discus, and three AAA discus titles. Her personal best throw was 67.48 m (221 ft 4+1⁄2 in), achieved in April 1981 in Walnut. This is the current NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field and British record.^[1]

Ritchie finished second behind fellow Scot Rosemary Payne in the discus event at the 1973 WAAA Championships.^{[2][page needed][3][page needed]} Two years later she became the British discus champion after winning the British WAAA Championships title at the 1975 WAAA Championships^[4] and successfully regained the title at the 1977 WAAA Championships and the 1981 WAAA Championships.^[5]

Representing the Arizona Wildcats track and field team, in 1982 she won the NCAA Division 1 Championships shot/discus double in America.^[6] Later that same year she won the discus gold medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane.

In the shot put her personal best was 18.99 m (62 ft 3+1⁄2 in), achieved in May 1983 in Tucson. This is the current Scottish national record

Ritchie is married to Dr. Michael H. Stone. She is the Director of East Tennessee State University Sports Performance Enhancement Consortium (SPEC), the Director of the Center of Excellence for Coach Education, and Assistant Coach for Men's and Women's Track and Field at ETSU (Throws). Under her tutelage, the male throwers from ETSU have proceeded to break the indoor shot, discus, hammer, 35 lb weight, and outdoor shot school records. The women have set new records in the 20 lb weight throw and the hammer throw.^{[citation needed]}