Vermont Sports Hall inducts Barry Stone as David Hakins Honoree

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

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

A lifelong avid tennis player and skier, Stone was a past president of the Burlington Tennis Club, where he and Ted Hoehn were instrumental in the organization of the 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 final 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. Tennis players of all ages from the Northeast participated in the tournament each year, with many of the best in the region.

Stone joins 12 others this year from the courts, links, rinks, gyms and fields who are the newest members of the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame. The other inductees were announced earlier this winter.

The class will be formally inducted Saturday, April 27, at the Delta Marriott Burlington Hotel on Williston Road in South Burlington.

Learn more about this year’s inductees, including Stone, or get tickets for the dinner and reception at vermontsportshall.com.

Proceeds from the event go to Prevent Child Abuse Vermont. Past dinners have raised just over $33,000 to support its work across Vermont.

Established in 2013, David Hakins inductees include Ray Pecor of Burlington and the Vermont Lake Monsters (2013); auto racing promoter Tom Curley of Waterbury (2014); Ernie Farrar of St. Albans for the Vermont Golden Gloves (2015); mountain climbing pioneer and promotor Helmut Lenes of Shelburne (2017); legendary media member Mal Boright of Williston (2019); Mickey & Ginny Cochran of Cochran’s Ski Area in Richmond (2020); sportswriter Ted Ryan of Shelburne (2022); and Thomas Dunkley of South Burlington, the “father of Vermont gymnastics” (2023).