VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Courtesy: Univ of Vermont

2024 David Hakins Inductee

South Burlington

Barry Stone of South Burlington is the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame’s 2004 David Hakins Inductee for exceptional promotion of sports, athletics and recreation in the Green Mountain State.

Stone has been involved in sports and athletics for over six decades in the Burlington area since coming to the University of Vermont from New York City in the 1950s. He was a member of the Catamounts men’s basketball team graduating in 1956.

A lifelong avid tennis player and skier, Stone was a past president of the Burlington Tennis Club. While at BTC, he and VSHOF inductee Ted Hoehn were instrumental in the organization of the highly successful Jeff Stone Memorial Tennis Tournament that ran for 25 years until 2009. Held in memory of the late son of Barry and his wife Carol, the tournament in its last decade raised significant funds for the non-profit Stern Center for Language and Learning, and the Jeff Stone Foundation for tennis camp scholarship funds for local youths. More than 200 players of all ages participated in the tournament each year, with many of the best in the region.

Stone has been a director or chair on many boards representing athletics organizations nationally and in Vermont. He was the past chair of the State of Vermont’s United States Olympic Committee and served as on the national finance committee of the U.S. Olympic Committee. He also was a past chair of the International Skiing History Association.

At his alma mater he was a past chair and member of the UVM Athletic Council, and the UVM Victory Club Committee. He was the recipient of the school’s Athletic Department Award in 1986, and he and Carol sponsor UVM’s Jeff Stone Award given annually to a male and female student-athlete for exceptional community service.

The Stone’s also have donated and sponsored two other Jeff Stone Awards, for the South Burlington High School boy’s tennis team and an age 14 and under skier at the Mount Mansfield Ski Club Stowe, both awarded for great sportsmanship and community service.  

Barry and Carol’s son Jeff tragically passed away in 1984. Growing up in South Burlington, Jeff was the state’s top high school player at SBHS, the number one on the UVM tennis team, and the top-ranked junior tennis player in the state and in New England.

Stone also has served on many athletic hall of fame committees including the UVM Athletic Hall of Fame, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame selection committee and was the third chairman of our own Vermont Sports Hall of Fame.

He and Carol also have been generous in their financial support of many athletic and sports programs in the area including those at the University of Vermont.