Kent Mitchell

{{Short description|American rower (born 1939)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Kent Mitchell

| image = Kent Mitchell 1960.jpg

| caption = Mitchell in 1960

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|March 29, 1939}}

| birth_place = Albany, New York, U.S.

| sport=Rowing

| club = Stanford Cardinal

| height = 173 cm

|weight = 51 kg

| show-medals = yes

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCountry | the {{USA}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games}}

{{MedalGold| 1964 Tokyo|Coxed pair}}

{{MedalBronze| 1960 Rome|Coxed pair}}

}}

Henry Kent Mitchell II (born March 29, 1939) is a retired American rowing coxswain. He competed in the coxed pairs at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a bronze and a gold medal, respectively. He was a law student at the UC Berkeley School of Law at the time. He won a bronze medal in the same event in 1960 while an undergraduate at Stanford University (class of 1961). Only two other Americans have coxed two crews to Olympic medals. He also coxed Stanford to two national championships, in 1961 and 1962.

Following graduation from law school in 1965 he practiced law in Palo Alto, California. He also set up and leads the Kent Mitchell Rowing Club, an elite masters competitive organization composed mostly of former national or Olympic champions.{{cite news|url=http://www.sandiego.edu/ur/usdmag/summer-2011/athletics/team-tenacity/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130626180456/http://www.sandiego.edu/ur/usdmag/summer-2011/athletics/team-tenacity/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-06-26 |title=Team Tenacity |last=Sauer |first=Mike |date=Summer 2011 |work=USD Magazine |accessdate=April 11, 2013 }} He also served three terms as mayor of Portola Valley, California.{{cite web|url=http://www.mhkllp.com/attorneys/ |title=Kent Mitchell |work=Mitchell, Herzog & Klingsporn LLP, attorneys |accessdate=April 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510154857/http://www.mhkllp.com/attorneys/ |archivedate=May 10, 2013 }}

He is in the Stanford University Hall of Fame and the National Rowing Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=http://www.gostanford.com/halloffame/profile-kmitchell.html |title=Kent Mitchell |work=Stanford University Hall of Fame |accessdate=April 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120616052638/http://www.gostanford.com/halloffame/profile-kmitchell.html |archivedate=June 16, 2012 }}