Amanda Stone - Women's Tennis Coach - University of North Texas Athletics

Amanda Stone

Title:
Head Coach
Email:
amanda.stone2@unt.edu
Alma Mater:
Northeastern State, 2007

Last updated July 15, 2025

Stone's Records (through 2023 season):
Career (13 years): 199-101 (.663 win pct.)
At UNT (Two years): 24-25 (.490 win pct.)

Amanda Stone was hired on June 21, 2023 as the 11th head coach of the UNT women's tennis team.

In the 2024-25 season, Stone led the Mean Green to their first postseason appearance since 2014 with an appearance in the 2025 UTR NIT Women's Tennis Championship, picking up a first round victory over Appalachian State.

Following the 2024-25 season, Stone's career winning percentage (.663) ranked inside the top 50 among all active (31st) and all-time (48th) winning percentages in NCAA history.

In her first season at the helm, Stone led the Mean Green to 12 dual match wins, the most of any first-year head coach since 1985 (Steve Buck, 20) and the most for a North Texas team since 2019.

In addition, Stone guided UNT to its first victories over a ranked opponent and a Big 12 opponent since 2016 and its first win in The American Athletic Conference Championship in program history.

Stone joined the Mean Green after a seven-year stint as the head coach at Louisiana Tech.

Stone led LA Tech to the two best seasons in program history. The 2023 Conference USA Coach of the Year and Wilson/ITA Southern Region Coach of the Year, Stone comes to Denton following a record-breaking as head coach at Louisiana Tech. During that time, she became the program’s all-time wins leader with an 89-69 mark in Ruston. She has a 175-89 record all-time in 11 seasons as a head coach.

Under her leadership, LA Tech registered a 20-6 overall record in 2023, the second most single-season victories in school history. The Lady Techsters also best C-USA finish while advancing to the semifinals of the conference tournament for the first time ever. The program finished the season ranked No. 73 by the ITA, another first.

The 2022 season was also one of the best in LA Tech history, registering the third most victories in school history with an 18-6 overall record. Included in the season was a program-setting 14-match winning streak as well as a 12-match home winning streak, which was also a record.

LA Tech ended the 2022 campaign totaling 81 dual singles wins and 39 dual doubles wins, both ranking second in program history behind only the 1982 squad. Five different players reached double-digit singles victories, led by seniors Ilana Tetruashvili (17 wins) and Najah Dawson (14 wins) who were both named Second Team All-Louisiana. Dawson was also voted Louisiana Newcomer of the Year, becoming the first player in program history to receive this award.

Stone reached a milestone of 150 career victories during the season as well, this after surpassing 50 total wins as LA Tech head coach in 2021 after the program produced a nine-win campaign that was anchored by All-Louisiana honorees Tetruashvili and Alexia Romero.

The Claremore, Okla. native rebuilt the Lady Techsters by showing consistent improvement including double-digit victories in three of her first four seasons.

Prior to Ruston, Stone recorded an 86-20 record and four straight Round of 16 appearances in the NCAA Tournament during four seasons as the head coach at Northeastern State (Okla.), a Division II program located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

The two-time MIAA Coach of the Year returned the RiverHawks back to national prominence, as the team shot up the rankings all four seasons Stone served as head coach. She posted at least 20 wins in each of her four years, which included four straight trips to the NCAA Championship Round of 16. She also led NSU to three-consecutive MIAA Regular Season Championships (2014-16).

Stone boasted two ITA All-Americans, one ITA Central Region Senior Player of the Year, one ITA Central Region Player to Watch, one MIAA Player of the Year, and two MIAA Freshmen of the Year during her time at Northeastern State. Of the 15 players who competed in the program since Stone took over in 2013, 14 earned All-MIAA honors at least once. Those 14 student-athletes amassed 38 all-conference accolades.

She took over the reins of a program that was unranked at the time and led it to the school's first ever Top 10 ranking which came at the end of the 2016 campaign. She also built a stellar academic program with one CoSIDA Academic All-American, four CoSIDA Academic All-District honorees, eight ITA Scholar-Athletes, one MIAA Academic Excellence award winner, 10 MIAA Scholar-Athletes and 13 members of the MIAA Academic Honor Roll.

Stone also spent two years at the University of Rochester (N.Y.), where she served as an assistant coach for both the men's and women's tennis programs from 2011-12.

She played at Northeastern State from 2004-07, where made two national tournament appearances, attained a No. 11 national doubles ranking in 2007 and posted an undefeated singles mark her senior year. Her first collegiate stop was at Oral Roberts, where she played basketball during her freshman campaign.

Stone graduated from NSU in 2007. She is married to Ross Wiersma and has two children, Thea and Huck.

COACHING HISTORY
2011-12: Rochester, Assistant Coach
2013-16: Northeastern State, Head Coach (86-20 record)
2016-23: LA Tech, Head Coach (89-69 record)
2023-: UNT, head coach (24-25 record)