Bill Webb Head Coach (bwebb@utk.edu) As Bill Webb enters his 10th season as head coach of the Volunteers, it’s natural to look back at all that’s been accomplished in his previous nine seasons at the helm. In that glowing period, Webb became the first Tennessee coach to win back-to-back NCAA titles--the 2001 outdoor and 2002 indoor crowns. He also became the only person to coach an NCAA and world champion decathlete in the same year, as Stephen Harris and Tom Pappas accomplished the sweep in 2003. The Vols won three SEC team titles, arguably every bit as tough an assignment as bringing home the gold NCAA trophy. Individually, Volunteers continued to stack up NCAA and SEC championships and All-America honors at a dizzying pace. Tennessee only added to its prestige as a training ground for elite athletes, including Olympic and world champions. In the nine years of Webb’s tenure, Tennessee proved to be fertile ground for academic growth and achievement. As recently as the fall 2004 semester, a record 27 track and field/cross country Vols posted GPAs of 3.0 or better. Since Webb was named head coach in 1996, Tennessee leads the conference with 115 selections to the SEC Academic Honor Roll for track and field/cross country. In 2004, the youthful Vols capped the season with a 13th-place finish at the NCAA outdoor championships. Webb coached Leigh Smith to a school-record mark of 267-11 in the javelin and a third-place finish at the Olympic trials. Earlier in the season Smith won his third SEC javelin title with a meet-record throw. In the indoor season, Webb coached true freshman Chris Helwick to All-America honors in the heptathlon. Helwick and Jangy Addy went on to sweep gold and silver in the decathlon at the USA junior championships. Just a season earlier, the U.S. Olympic Committee took notice of his teaching successes, naming Webb its National Track and Field Coach of the Year in 2003. He was selected from a national pool of the top U.S. collegiate and professional coaches from all levels. Webb’s status as one of the top coaches in his profession is unchallenged. The Tennessee mentor led the Vols to consecutive NCAA titles with the 2001 outdoor and 2002 indoor championships, the first coach in the program’s proud history to accomplish the feat. The 2002 NCAA indoor title marked the first ever indoor championship for Tennessee. Up and down the line in 2002, the Vols never faltered, with individuals performing better than their rank entering the meet to add crucial points and lock up Tennessee’s first NCAA indoor championship. As testament to his steady captaining of the Vol ship, Tennessee’s mentor earned National Indoor Coach of the Year and South Region Indoor Coach of the Year honors by the U.S. Track Coaches Association. Later in the outdoor season, Webb’s masterful guidance of the Tennesseans resulted in the capture of the school’s second consecutive SEC outdoor title, a conference-best 24th such championship. In 2001, Webb skillfully directed underdog Tennessee to its third NCAA outdoor title and 23rd SEC outdoor title with an emphasis on teamwork and overachievement at crunch time. As any avid college track fan knows, winning the SEC title is sometimes harder than placing tops in the NCAA. Webb’s Vols began their 2001 outdoor title double by breaking one of collegiate track’s greatest dynasties with a final-day point flurry that outdistanced the rest of Tennessee’s conference foes at the SEC outdoors. With Tennessee’s SEC outdoor titles in 2001 and 2002, Webb became the only conference coach to defeat Arkansas at the SEC championships since the Razorbacks joined in 1992 -- and he’s done it three times. Webb also led the Vols to the 1996 SEC indoor title. Webb garnered deserved acclaim as the U.S. Track Coaches Association’s National Coach of the Year for his leadership of the Vols during the 2001 campaign. In 2001, Webb also earned SEC Outdoor Coach of the Year honors and South Region Indoor and Outdoor Coach of the Year. Webb credits much of Tennessee’s success to talent in his coaching staff. George Watts, head cross country and distance coach, ran for Tennessee beginning in the fall of 1975 and, with the exception of two years, has been a steadying force in Tennessee’s program since. Assistant coach Norbert Elliott (sprints/hurdles/horizontal jumps) arrived on campus in the fall with the directive to continue Tennessee’s impressive tradition in his event area. Volunteer assistant Jim Bemiller enters his 18th year on staff directing and adding to Tennessee’s pole vault tradition. Meanwhile, Webb added to his international coaching resume’ as he was chosen by USA Track and Field to serve as head coach for the U.S. decathletes in a summer 2001 dual meet versus Germany. Webb’s emphasis on building a complete track and field team has paid off as the Vols have been selected the USTCA dual meet champions nine times since 1991, most recently an outdoor title in 2003. For nine years before he took the head coaching reins, Webb was an integral part of the Vols’ track and field success as assistant head coach and head field events coach. The nationally renowned field events teacher was named Tennessee’s 14th head coach in the summer of 1995. It didn’t take him long to taste success after his selection as head man for the Vols. During his first two seasons at the helm of the Tennessee track and field program, Webb captured the 1996 SEC indoor championship, 1996 District Indoor Coach of the Year and 1996 SEC Indoor Coach of the Year honors. Webb’s success did not begin at Tennessee, where he helped coach the Vols to eight top-five national indoor and outdoor finishes as an assistant coach from 1991-95, including NCAA and SEC titles in 1991. Prior to Tennessee, he coached on staffs at Florida, Southern Illinois and Indiana, which collectively captured nine conference titles during his tenure. Equally impressive is the proliferation of individual honors garnered by athletes under his tutelage. At Tennessee alone, he has personally coached 12 NCAA champions, 70 Division I All-Americas and 44 SEC champions. In addition, he produced a total of 51 Division II All-Americas while at Cal State Northridge and West Georgia College. He has also coached a total of 27 Olympic Trials competitors since 1984, as well as personally instructing athletes at four Olympic Games and seven world championship meets. Webb’s athletes have rewritten the top 10 lists at Tennessee. For a career, his numbers by event are remarkable, coaching 24 decathletes over the 7,250 mark, nine shot putters beyond 60 feet and 13 high jumpers over seven feet. Webb coached 2003 heptathlon and decathlon world champion Tom Pappas to a PR of 8,784 and a spot on two U.S. Olympic teams. NCAA champion decathletes Aric Long and Brian Brophy are other highly decorated Webb products, boasting career bests of 8,237 and 8,276, respectively. Webb and Bemiller have also coached Tim Mack and Lawrence Johnson to lofty heights in the pole vault. Mack, an NCAA champion at Tennessee, won the gold medal with an Olympic-record clearance of 19-6 1/4 to highlight a 2004 dream season. Johnson, the former pole vault American record holder and four-time NCAA champion, has gone on to take the 2000 Olympic silver medal and 2001 world indoor championship. Webb coached Tom Petranoff, former world record holder in the javelin, and Bob Roggy, a past American record holder. In addition to his selection as head coach for the 2001 U.S. vs. Germany decathlon dual meet competition, Webb possesses considerable international experience, having served as an assistant coach at the 1991 Pan American Games in Cuba and the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. He is also a well-published author on track and field techniques, plyometrics and strength training. Active at the USATF level, Webb served as the USATF Javelin Coordinator from 1984-1999. A native of Greenbelt, Md., Webb was an all-conference hurdler and team captain at High Point (N.C.) University in the early 1970s. Webb and Kentucky basketball coach Tubby Smith comprised half of High Point’s school-record shuttle hurdle relay team, a mark that still stands. He graduated with a B.S. degree in physical education at High Point before earning his M.S. degrees in recreation (1973) and physical education (1974) from Indiana University. Webb continued to compete at the national level in the decathlon. He earned USTFF All-America honors and finished fourth as a guest in the 1976 Canadian Olympic Trials. Webb began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Indiana before moving on to take the head coaching position at West Georgia College in 1973 where he was named the league’s coach of the year in his two seasons there. He had assistant coaching stops at Florida (1975-76) and Southern Illinois (1976-78) before being named head coach at Cal State Northridge in 1979. Webb was head coach for seven years at Cal State Northridge where he was named the California Collegiate Athletic Association’s Coach of the Year in 1985, and his teams finished in the top eight every year in the NCAA Division II meet. Webb is married to the former Patricia Hill. They have a son, Kevin. Bill Webb File -- Head Coach Education High Point High School Beltsville, Md. B.S., Physical Education High Point (N.C.) University, 1971 M.S., Recreation, 1973 M.S., Physical Education, 1974 Indiana University Athletic Career and Honors High Point University, 1968-71 All-Conference, Team Captain, School Record Holder Florida Track Club, 1972-76 USTFF Decathlon All-America Fourth Place (as a guest), Decathlon at the Canadian Olympic Trials, 1976 Coaching Career Graduate Assistant, Indiana, 1971-72 Head Coach, West Georgia College, 1973-75 Assistant Coach, Florida, 1975-76 Assistant Coach, Southern Illinois, 1976-78 Head Coach, Cal State Northridge, 1979-85 Assistant Head Coach, Tennessee, 1986-95 Head Coach, Tennessee, 1996-Present Coaching Honors South Atlantic Coach of the Year, 1973 South Atlantic Coach of the Year, 1974 District Coach of the Year, 1975 California Collegiate Athletic Association Coach of the Year, 1985 U.S. Assistant Coach, Pan Am American Games, 1991 U.S. Assistant Coach, World Championships, 1993 District Indoor Coach of the Year, 1996 SEC Indoor Coach of the Year, 1996 NCAA National Outdoor Coach of the Year, 2001 SEC Outdoor Coach of the Year, 2001 NCAA South Region Indoor/Outdoor Coach of the Year, 2001 U.S. Head Coach, USA vs. Germany Decathlon, 2001 NCAA National Indoor Coach of the Year, 2002 NCAA South Region Indoor Coach of the Year, 2002 USOC National Track and Field Coach of the Year, 2003 “Competing for the University of Tennessee under the tutelage of Coach Webb has been one of the greatest experiences of my life. Coach Webb possesses an endless wealth of knowledge about the sport of track and field and truly understands what it takes to mold a champion. I attribute much of my success to his ability to teach, inspire, and motivate. -- Leigh Smith, Professional Javelin Thrower Third place, 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials Three-time All-America and SEC champion

George Watts Assistant Head Coach, Cross Country (gwatts@utk.edu) George Watts begins his 10th season as coach of the Tennessee track distance corps and cross country squad. Previously, he served as the assistant coach since 1985. Watts’ distance corps has contributed greatly to Tennessee’s success. With the exception of two years away from campus, from the fall of 1975 when he arrived on campus to begin an All-America career until the present, Watts has been a vital part of growing the Vols’ proud distance tradition. As assistant coach, Watts played a crucial role on coaching staffs that directed the Vols to NCAA outdoor championships in 1991 and 2001, in addition to an NCAA indoor title in 2002. Watts has been on board as an assistant for nine Southeastern Conference titles (five outdoor and four indoor). Along with the 2001 and 2002 SEC outdoor titles, Watts’ athletes played a significant role in helping the Vols capture the 1996 SEC indoor championship. The team victory was sealed when the Tony Cosey-anchored distance medley relay team posted an exciting victory. His track athletes have garnered 32 All-America certificates. In 2004, freshman Paul Cross and Marc Sylvester, both 800 men coached by Watts, led the Volunteers in scoring with a third and fourth-place finish at the NCAA outdoor championships. Cross also won the SEC outdoor 800 title. In 2003, Watts’ athletes from the 800, the shortest race he coaches, to the 10,000, the longest distance he coaches, qualified for the NCAA outdoor championships. Three-time All-America Sylvester won the 2003 SEC 800 outdoor crown. Meanwhile, Patrick Gildea authored the finest season for a Tennessee 10,000 man in nearly a decade. In 2002, Watts molded freshman Sylvester into an 800 force to be reckoned with. Sylvester captured All-America honors both indoors and outdoors, indeed mounting a charge that led to Tennessee’s 2002 NCAA indoor title. Additionally, Watts coached freshman Frank Francois to the 2002 world junior championships in the 800. Watts’ coaching highlights include coaching 800 school record holder (1:43.97) and 1992 and 1996 Olympian José Parrilla. Cosey, a Watts’ product, competed in the steeplechase in the 2000 Olympics. Watts also tutored 1,500 school record holder (3:41.24) and All-America selection Tim Pitcher. In addition to coaching the current Volunteers, Watts continues to work with steeplechaser Anthony Famiglietti, 800 man Jebreh Harris and distance specialist Patrick Gildea. Most recently, Watts directed Famiglietti to the 2004 Olympics after a runner-up finish in the U.S. trials. Famiglietti also won the 2002 USA outdoor title and 2001 World University Games under Watts’ tutelage. Watts also worked with legendary Tennessee alumni Todd Williams, a 1992 and 1996 Olympian and 10,000 school record holder, during his professional career. The line of stars like Cosey, Famiglietti, Gildea, Harris, Parrilla and Williams continues a long tradition of Vols who choose to continue training in Knoxville during their post-collegiate careers. In addition to his assistant coaching duties for track, Watts heads the Volunteers’ cross country program. Likewise, Tennessee remains competing at its historically high level in cross country. Under Watts’ leadership, the Vols have consistently finished near the top of the SEC, including three second-place finishes. His athletes have competed in seven NCAA championships either as a team or individually. In cross country, Watts has coached 20 All-SEC or All-America runners. Recognizing his efforts in constructing a cross country resurgence, Watts earned South Region coach of the year honors in 2001 and 2002. Watts also took district coach of the year honors in 1995. In 2004, Watts’ cross country squad took two team titles. Zach Sabatino earned all-SEC and all-region acclaim, while Andy Baksa joined him on the all-region team. In 2003, Watts coached Tim Kelly to an individual berth in the NCAA championship. Tim Kelly, Matthew Lapp and true freshman Dusty Miller earned all-region honors. In 2002, Watts led the Vols to the NCAA championship for the second time in as many years. In one of Tennessee cross country’s greatest days of the last decade, the Vols, ranked fourth in the region, stormed to first place at the 2002 NCAA South Regional. In 2001, the Tennessee harriers reached the NCAA championship for the first time since 1998 despite not having a runner on the roster who had ever been to nationals. Tennessee’s NCAA highlight under Watts came in 1995 when the Vols captured a 12th-place finish and the District III team championship. Watts was tabbed district coach of the year for leading his charges in 1995. He directed Cosey to a second district championship and a seventh-place, All-America finish at nationals in 1995. Before he was named head cross country coach, assistant coach Watts proved to be an integral part of leading the Volunteers to three SEC titles in 1985, 1989 and 1990. A native of Alexandria, Va., Watts graduated from Tennessee in 1983. During his days as a Vol, he established himself as an outstanding distance runner, earning All-America honors for cross country in 1977 and indoor track in 1978 (three-mile run). Watts captured four SEC crowns as a Vol, beginning with the 1976 outdoor three-mile and six-mile championships. He followed with the 1977 outdoor 10,000m and 1978 indoor three-mile titles. Watts remains the SEC record-holder in the three-mile run, clocking a 13:32.6 in 1978. He also holds three Tennessee freshman records in the indoor two-mile (8:42.6), three-mile (13:44.4) and outdoor 10,000m (29:04.05). Watts’ distance athletes began what has become an annual tradition in helping out with event operations at The Race for the Cure, a race for those affected by breast cancer. He and his wife, Karen, have a daughter, Katie. George Watts File PRs by Event of Athletes Coached by Watts 400 -- 45.76; 800 -- 1:43.97; 1,500 -- 3:37.98; 3,000 -- 7:48.08; Steeplechase -- 8:17.91; 5,000 -- 13:20.39; 10,000 -- 27:58.13 Education Thomas Edison High School, Alexandria, Va. B.S., History, 1983, University of Tennessee Athletic Career and Honors Track and Field, Cross Country, 1975-78 Cross Country All-America, 1977 Indoor All-America, Three Mile, 1978 SEC Champion, Three Mile and Six Mile, 1976 SEC Champion, 10,000, 1977 SEC Champion, Three Mile, 1978 Coaching Career Assistant Coach, Tennessee, 1985-92 Administrative Assistant, Tennessee, 1992-95 Assistant Head Coach, Tennessee, 1996-Present Cross Country Coaching Honors District III Coach of the Year, 1995 South Region Co-Coach of the Year, 2001 South Region Coach of the Year, 2002 “Coach Watts has a great personal understanding of his individual athletes. Every athlete has to develop in his own way, and Coach Watts’ methods greatly appreciate and contribute to that. Running is a sport for individuals, and Coach Watts is able to technically and mentally understand his athletes in a way that pushes them to new levels. He’s a great team builder and an intense motivator when the time is right.” -- Anthony Famiglietti, Professional Steeplechaser All-America, 2004 Olympian, 2002 USA Champion

Norbert Elliot Assistant Coach Norbert Elliott begins his first season heading Tennessee’s sprint, hurdles and horizontal jump effort. With head coach Bill Webb’s Sept. 22 announcement of his hiring, Elliott became the newest member of the Tennessee coaching staff. After a national search combing the fast lanes across the country, Tennessee found the right man just across its northern border at Murray State in Kentucky. Elliott brings several strengths as he takes the reins of one of Tennessee’s most heralded and traditionally successful training groups. Elliott earned head coaching experience during his three years at Murray State. However, he also brings knowledge of competition in the hyper-conference, the unrivaled SEC, from a decade of service as a Georgia assistant. Through it all his ability as a respected sprints, hurdles and horizontal jumps coach has been evident. Elliott, a native of the Bahamas, also brings a wealth of international coaching experience and a network of global recruiting contacts. “There’s no question that Tennessee is one of the premier programs not just in the Southeastern Conference but in the nation,” Elliott said. “The name ‘Tennessee’ just stands out among the rest, and I’m proud to be part of it. I plan to continue to build on the strong tradition Tennessee has established that goes way back.” Elliott recently concluded his third year as head coach of the Murray State men's and women's track and field/cross country program. Elliott also possesses a familiarity with the premier level of track and field competition in the Southeastern Conference, as he served as assistant track coach at Georgia from 1992-2001. Prior to taking the assignment at Georgia, Elliott held the post of assistant track coach at Texas-El Paso, his alma mater, from 1989-92. Elliott holds the reputation of being a well rounded coach. His mentoring of athletes who have produced quality performances in championship meets in events ranging from the sprints to horizontal jumps and hurdles to relays provides testament to his versatility, a trait historically prized in the Tennessee track and field family. A native of the Bahamas, Elliott is no stranger to recruiting and developing elite homegrown and foreign talent. Elliott served as coach of the Bahamas National Team at the 2001 world championships and 1996 Olympics. He has coached Olympic gold and silver medalists in the 4x100-meter relay. Elliott coached five NCAA champions, 10 SEC champions and 30 All-America selections at Georgia. Athletes he recruited and coached fueled the run to Georgia’s first women’s conference title in 1995. One of his star pupils, Nigeria native and Georgia school record holder Bode Osagiobare, topped out at an impressive 10.01 seconds in the 100. Ken Garrett, a Texan who set the Georgia school record in 2001 at 49.76 in the 400 hurdles, peaked at 48.61 in his specialty. As an assistant coach for Texas-El Paso, Elliott recruited athletes who won five NCAA sprint championships and 15 conference titles. “We’re excited to get a person of Norbert’s expertise and character in our program,” Webb said. “We think he’s a great fit for us. He’s the right person to maintain our sprint and hurdle program at the highest level.” One of Elliott’s primary tasks will be keeping a recruiting pipeline open for quality track and field talents to hone their craft on The Hill. It’s a task for which his past experience has him fully prepared. “The success of any program strongly relies on its recruiting efforts,” Elliott said. “I’m going to hit the road hard. It’s important for me to establish relationships in the region and beyond for recruiting purposes. My most important quality is my ability to communicate with my athletes and recruits. I have a personality to recruit America’s finest athletes.” Elliott will also be looking for Volunteers beyond American borders. In addition to his stateside duties with Murray State, Georgia and Texas-El Paso, Elliott possesses an impressive list of international coaching highlights both for his native Bahamas and elsewhere. “I bring international contacts which lend an added advantage to the recruiting mix,” Elliott said. “Tennessee is an international university with students and professors from all around the world. Our track team will reflect the university.” In his own athletic career Elliott specialized in the triple jump and competed in the 1988 and ‘92 Olympics. Elliott placed 10th in the triple jump in the 1988 Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. He finished ninth in the triple jump at the 1987 world championships in Rome, Italy. Elliott earned his bachelor’s degree in business management from Texas-El Paso in 1987. He added a master’s in exercise science also from Texas-El Paso in 1991. Elliott and his wife, Trudy, have five children: Danielle, 15; Norbert II, 11; Alexander, 9; Dominic, 7 and Adrian, 5. NORBERT ELLIOTT File Education St. Augustine’s College, Nassau, Bahamas B.A., Business Management, 1987,University of Texas-El Paso M. Ed., Exercise Science, 1991,University of Texas-El Paso Athletic Career and Honors Texas-El Paso, 1981-85 Bahamas, Ninth Place, Triple Jump, 1987 World Championships Bahamas, 10th Place, Triple Jump, 1988 Olympics Bahamas, Triple Jump, 1992 Olympics Coaching Career Assistant Coach, Texas-El Paso, 1989-92 Assistant Coach, Georgia, 1992-2001 Head Coach, Murray State, 2002-04 Assistant Coach, Tennessee, 2005 Coaching Honors Bahamas Assistant Coach, World Championships, 1991 Bahamas Head Coach, Central America and Caribbean Meet, 1995 Bahamas Assistant Coach, World Junior Championships, 2000 Bahamas Head Men’s Coach, World Championships, 2001 “Coach Elliott has ALWAYS had a total understanding, not only of how to come about success in the triple jump but also about how athletics fits into the larger scheme of life. His comprehension of the sport is such that he is able to boil the requisite skills for an event down to the barest essentials and distill these in appropriate servings that translate into huge success for his athletes. I’ve seen him transform average and good athletes into superstars. Even more significant for his chosen career, Norbert is an excellent human being who is very understanding of, and attentive to, the needs of athletes AND people. The best way I can paraphrase this is to say: I would send my two daughters to his program in a heartbeat!” -- Dr. Francis Dodoo, Four-time Olympian Athletic and Academic All-America African Games Triple Jump Record Holder

Toby Colyer Administrative Assistant Toby Colyer enters his second year as the administrative assistant for the men’s track and field team. His duties include organizing the travel schedules, budgeting, purchasing equipment and coordinating managers’ duties for the Vols. Colyer returned to the program after spending a year as a departmental head and salesman at the Knoxville Dick’s Sporting Goods, a Pittsburgh-based retail company. During his collegiate days at Tennessee, Colyer joined the ranks of Volunteer greats by earning All-America acclaim in the javelin. Colyer specialized in the javelin and shot put in his Tennessee career. Colyer earned another esteemed honor when he was voted a team captain in 2001, helping lead the Vols to SEC and NCAA outdoor team titles. Before becoming a Vol, Colyer won individual national junior college titles in both the shot put and javelin at Wallace State Community College in Alabama. Colyer graduated from Tennessee in 2001 with a B.A. in sociology. Colyer hails from McAlisterville, Pa.