Megan Biging joined the Stanford women’s rowing team in September 2020, and is in her fourth season with the Cardinal.
The Cardinal made its mark on rowing's biggest stage during the 2023 season, earning its first team national championship since 2009 while earning its second consecutive Pac-12 Team Championship. For the sixth consecutive season, five Cardinal women's rowers were named 2023 Pocock Racing Shells All-America Athletes, and senior Annabelle Bachmann was named the 2023 Pac-12 Women's Rowing Scholar-Athlete of the Year. For her efforts throughout the season, Biging and the Cardinal coaching staff were honored as the 2023 CRCA Staff of the Year.
Stanford produced a runner-up finish for the second consecutive season at the 2022 NCAA Championships while also winning the program's first conference title since 2014 at the Pac-12 Championships held at Dexter Lake. Stanford women's rowing swept the end-of-year awards from the Pac-12, led by Azja Czajkowski's Athlete of the Year honor. Iris Klok was named the Pac-12 Women's Rowing Newcomer of the Year. Czajkowski, Esther Briz Zamorano, Katelin Gildersleeve and Caroline Ricksen earned All-Pac-12 accolades for their strong performances in the 2022 season. Five Cardinal women's rowers were named 2022 Pocock Racing Shells All-America Athletes, as Briz Zamorano, Czajkowski, Gildersleeve, and Ricksen each earned first-team honors. Fifth-year Kaitlyn Kynast was honored with second-team accolades. Additionally, the program earned its first-ever CoSIDA First Team Academic All-America honor, won by fifth year senior Grace McGinley. The award honors an elite student-athlete in the classroom and on the water. Biging worked with the Cardinal's third varsity eight boat that produced a first-place finish at the conference championship and Stanford's varsity four boat that won a conference title and finished fourth at the national championship regatta.
Prior to her arrival on the peninsula, Biging spent seven seasons as an assistant coach at USC, including the last three as the first assistant and recruiting coordinator. Biging helped the Trojans maintain a top-20 national ranking while managing the second varsity eight over the past three seasons. A former team captain at USC, Biging helped her alma mater to a fourth place finish at the 2011 NCAA Championships, the best in program history.
Biging also worked as the head coach for Radnor Girls Crew Club from 2007-11, and holds a world record in the Great Pacific Race as part of the fastest all-female pair across the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Biging graduated in 2007 from USC, and earned her Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga in 2012.