The Madison College Athletics Department has announced Mallory (Dixon) Stone as the new head women's volleyball coach ahead of the 2022 season. Stone, a former Wisconsin Badgers volleyball player, becomes the 14th head coach in program history. She will also serve as the Madison College Athletics Performance Coach, working with all student-athletes regarding physical strength, conditioning, mental training, and overall performance.
 
"I am thrilled to have Mallory (Dixon) Stone as our new head women's volleyball coach," commented Interim Director of Athletics Jason Verhelst. "With Mallory's impressive NCAA Division I experience as a player, and her years of club coaching and teaching camps, she brings a lot to the position. Madison College has been a top destination for high school girls' volleyball players, and with Mallory, the future is even brighter for the program and the department going forward."

Stone returns to Madison, Wisconsin, where she played collegiate volleyball for the University of Wisconsin Badgers from 2016 to 2019, a run that concluded with a NCAA Division I National Runner-up. At UW, she played in 20 matches as a setter, and was a three-time Academic All-Big Ten honoree en route to earning a Bachelor's of Science in Kinesiology. Stone transferred to the University of South Carolina as a graduate student, and played two seasons with the Gamecocks. She surpassed 1,000 assists at South Carolina, to go along with more than 300 digs and 49 aces. Stone finished her time in Columbia, South Carolina, as a member of the 2020-21 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll and the SEC Honor Roll, and graduated magna cum laude with a Master of Science in Exercise Science from the Arnold School of Public Health.
 
"I am so grateful to be the head volleyball coach at Madison College and back in my favorite city," stated Stone. "I am excited to help these young women succeed in the classroom, on the court, and in life, and give back to this incredible volleyball community. Additionally, I cannot wait to help the athletes in our athletic department develop both mentally and physically as competitors. I am fired up to get in the gym with the team and get to work this fall!"

Stone, a native of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, played her prep volleyball at Lincoln High School, and was the three-time Fox River Classic Conference Player of the Year after helping her team to three league titles. The three-time Wisconsin Volleyball Coaches Association honorable mention all-state recipient set a school record with 3,854 assists, to go along with more than 1,000 digs and 251 aces. Stone also played four years of basketball, was a member of the National Honor Society, Student Senate, and Student Athletic Council, and finished with a 4.00 grade point average.

A private volleyball instructor in the Manitowoc and Madison areas since 2018, Stone has been a club volleyball coach in the Madison region with both Sting United Volleyball Club and Madtown Junior Volleyball Club, and has also been heavily involved with the UW Badger Sports Camps and the Manitowoc Public School District Elementary School Volleyball Program.

Stone's academic and professional interests have allowed her to work at the Sport Science Lab in South Carolina, as well as St. Mary's Hospital and the Schrage Kinesiology Lab in Madison. As a collegiate student-athlete, she was part of Athletes in Action, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Sport Linc, the UW Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, Badgers Give Back, and Buckingham's Planning Committee.

Stone currently lives in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, with her husband and former UW wrestler, Ben Stone, and their dog, Cooper.

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