Stone Mannello is in his second season with the James Madison football program in 2025, as he serves as an offensive graduate assistant with the offensive line.
Mannello moved into a GA role after spending the 2024 as a volunteer assistant. He initially arrived in Harrisonburg in December 2023, as he was part of Damian Wroblewski’s coaching staff for the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl.
A native of Dallas, Pa., Mannello began his coaching career in 2022 at Stony Brook as a defensive assistant with the defensive line.
Mannello is a former linebacker at Springfield College where he played in 24 career games from 2017 to 2021.
He graduated from Springfield in the 2022 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and later earned a master’s degree in higher education administration in 2023 from Stony Brook.
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