Commonwealth Games selection for Meghan!
Meghan has been selected to represent England in the Commonwealth Games in Delhi in October. She will be running the 400m hurdles and the 4 x 400m relay.

After the disappointment of missing so much of the season due to a torn quad Meghan was thrilled to be selected. She was back on track last weekend at the Bedford International Games and won her race in a reasonable time. She now aims to compete over the next 3 weekends to regain her strength and speed heading up to the games.

She will fly out to the holding camp in Doha at the end of September to acclimatise and prepare for the competition which starts 6th October 2010.

New Personal Best for Meghan!
Meghan ran a superb race on 30th June in Reims, France. She was narrowly beaten by Tasha Danvers with a new Personal Best time of 56.65.

Silver Medal for Meghan at National Champs!
After almost 5 weeks off competing due to an injury Meghan was back on track on Friday evening to win her heat in 57.63 seconds to secure her place in the final.

In the final she ran what she called ‘a very messy’ race but still managed to hold on to second place in a time of 57.20 seconds and secure her first medal at a senior championships.

Meghan will now go on to run a couple of races in France this week and hopefully improve on her times with some more race practice.

Watch the race while you can on BBC iPlayer! (UK only).

Meghan retains her 400m hurdle BUCS title
Meghan retained her 400m hurdle BUCS title at the weekend in Bedford. Her time of 58.42 was slower than she had hoped for but given the extreme wintry weather conditions was quite reasonable.

She went on to run the final leg of the 4 x 400m relay where she gained another gold medal. The Loughborough team were the overall winners of the championships.

Blistering Start to 2010 Hurdling Season!
On Saturday Meghan competed at the Mount Sac Relays in California in the Elite athletes 400m Hurdles.

Despite hitting the last hurdle badly she continued strongly and won the race as well as achieving a personal best time of 56.97. Speaking after the race, Meghan said she "had enjoyed the race" and was "looking forward to the rest of the season"...

Meghan's next race (Icelandic volcano permitting!) is at BUCS in Bedford, UK on 1st - 3rd May, check back soon for further news...

Spring 2010 Update
At the weekend Meghan competed at the Rafer Johnson / Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational in Los Angles.

She lined up against world class 400m hurdles specialist Lashinda Demus in the 400m and ran an excellent new Personal Best time of 52.91 knocking more than a second off her existing time!

She came 3rd place in the race with Lashinda winning in 51.88. Just an hour later she competed in the 200m coming in 4th place in 23.87. Meghan is really pleased with these opening times and looks forward to the Summer season ahead!

Winter 2010 Update
Meghan achieved two great times this week in both the 400m and 200m.

At the McCain City Challenge in Lee Valley she came 1st in the 400m in a time of 53.90 and the Sheffield team went on to win the match. (see video in the gallery section)

At the Inter Varsity Match on Wednesday at the NIA Meghan ran the 200m in a winning time of 24.08 and again her team Loughborough won the match.

After making the decision not to have an indoor season this year Meghan has just competed in a few races in the 60m hurdles event for some speed training and some fun! Running just one 200m and 400m was a decision made by her coach Nick Dakin to see how her training was progressing, which as her results show is going very well.

Meghan is off to LA at the end of March for one month for warm weather training and will be back in the UK to compete in the British Universities Championships at the beginning of May.

Two personal bests and a seasons best!
Meghan has had a busy couple of weeks running 2 personal bests and a seasons best! She is looking forward to more races over the next month.

LEAP Wednesday 29th July

Despite terrible weather conditions of pouring rain and very strong winds Meghan ran a respectable 400m hurdles race and came in first. The time was not what she had hoped for but the win was enough.

UK Womens League Hendon Saturday 1st August

Another bad day on the weather front - strong headwinds slowing down many of the times. Despite this Meghan took a first place and a PB in the 100m hurdles running 13.75 and a second place in the 100 metres beating many 100m specialists, so a pleasing day overall. Birchfield Harriers came 1st place overall which resulted in them coming 2nd in the UK Womens League for 2009.

Amsterdam Open Meeting - Saturday 8th August

Meghan claimed another 1st place and a seasons best of 57.31 in the 400m hurdles. She made a last minute decision to run in the 200m race 30 minutes later and ran a signicant PB of 23.75 from lane 1 despite tiring badly in the last part of the race.

7th U23 European Championships, Kaunas, Lithuania 2009
In July 2009, Meghan ran for team GB in Kaunas, Lithuania in her chosen event of 400m Hurdles. Meghan won her heat comfortably but then unfortunately narrowly missed out on a place in the final by 7/100 of a second when she came fifth in her semi final.

The European U23's are held every 2 years so Meghan hopes to compete in the next one in 2011 in Ostrava. The GB Team smashed their previous medal record by winning 18 medals, GB finished 2nd overall in the medal table!

GB Team Leader, John Trower was delighted: "What a fantastic performance by the team. It’s been fantastic from the first day and the team has excelled in all areas - on the track and on field - what a brilliant all round team performance" www.uka.org.uk

Local Support for Meghan
Chambers Motor Group of Tamworth have shown their support for local athletics by providing Meghan with a car!

The Tamworth based Peugeot dealer handed over the vehicle earlier this week - Dealer Principle Janice Howes said "it is a pleasure to offer our assistance to Meghan, we will be watching her progress with interest in the run up to 2012"