Mitch Stone joined the Rhode Island football staff as Director of Football Operations in March of 2013.

Stone previously spent six seasons as an assistant coach with the men's soccer team at Rhode Island. Before coming to URI, Stone was the Director of Operations at the Grantham Indoor Soccer Center in Grantham, N.H. There, his responsibilities included conducting coaching and player development clinics, administrating league play and serving as Director of the Grantham Soccer School of Excellence. Prior to his time in New Hampshire, Stone was the head men's soccer coach at Lawrence University from 1997-2000.

He also served as an assistant on the Lawrence men's ice hockey coaching staff from 1997-98 and took on the role of head coach from 1998-99. Stone's collegiate coaching career started at the University of Chicago, where he served as an intern assistant men's soccer coach in 1997.

Stone also has been involved with various camps across the country, including those at the University of Maine, Dartmouth College, the University of Notre Dame and the Rhode Island Elite Soccer Academy. He directed the Lawrence University Soccer Camp in 1999 and co-directed the Shooting Start Soccer Camp (Appleton, Wisc.) in 1998. He also served as the site director for the Upper Valley Youth Lightning Community Camps (Hanover, N.H.) from 1994-1997.

A native of Orono, Maine, Stone was a member of the 1993 Rhode Island men's soccer team before transferring to Colby-Sawyer where he earned the College's Male Athlete of the Year Award in 1996 and 1997. He also was recognized as the Commonwealth Coast Conference's (CCC) Player of the Year in 1995 and was a member of the CCC All-Conference First Team in 1995 and 1996. Additionally, Stone earned the CCC's Senior Scholar Athlete of the Year Award in 1996.

A 1997 graduate of Colby-Sawyer College, he received his Bachelor's degree in Sports Management and went on to earn his MBA from Franklin Pierce in 2002.

Updated June 14, 2013