Jim Stone

Biography

Jim Stone, entering his 22nd season as head coach in 2023, is the winningest coach in Bemidji State University soccer history. Prior to his arrival in 2002, BSU had an overall record of 13-80-3. In the 20 seasons since, his BSU teams have accounted for over 94 percent (235) of the program's total victories (248), which includes a program-record 19 wins (19-2-3) in 2021. Stone led the Beavers to their first national ranking and NCAA Division II Tournament appearance in 2017 and first win in the NCAA Division II Tournament in 2018. The Beavers have missed the NSIC Tournament just one time in the last 18 seasons and guided Bemidji State to its first-ever NSIC Tournament Championship and NCAA Central Region Tournament Championship in 2022. Stone inherited a 4-12-1 squad in 2002 and quickly put the building blocks in place for success. Stone's 2004 team assembled the program's first double-digit win total, with an overall record of 11-12-0, and made a run to the NSIC Tournament semifinals in the Beavers' first appearance in the postseason event. A five-time NSIC Coach of the Year (2005, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2021), Stone has the highest win percentage of any head coach in BSU history. Before his arrival at BSU, Stone served as head girl's varsity soccer coach at Spring Lake Park High School during fall 2001. Stone, a 1998 graduate of Concordia (Minn.) College, captained the Concordia men's soccer team in 1997 and helped lead Concordia to MIAC Championships in 1995 and 1996. He hol