Bill Webb enters his 13th season as Tennessee s head coach after guiding the Vols to their fourth SEC title under his watch. Behind theleadership of Webb, Tennessee scored 129.5 points and claimed the 2007 SEC outdoor title in Tuscaloosa, Ala., to give UT its SEC-leading 25th outdoor conference championship in program history. The Vols placed second at the conference indoor championships. Tennessee's performance led to Webb being recognized as the SEC and co-South District Outdoor Coach of the Year in 2007.

In his first 12 years, 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.  

Individually, Volunteers continue to stack up NCAA and SEC championships and All-America honors at a dizzying pace. Tennessee keeps adding to its prestige as a training ground for elite athletes, including Olympic and world champions.

In the 12 years of Webb's tenure, Tennessee has proven to be fertile ground for academic growth and achievement. As recently as the fall 2006 semester, 27 track and field/cross country Vols posted GPAs of 3.0 or
better, which is the highest number during his successful tenure. Since Webb was named head coach in 1996, Tennessee leads the conference with 172 selections to the SEC Academic Honor Roll for track and field/cross
country, including 19 in 2007.

Webb has tutored the last three SEC decathlon champions, as Chris Helwick claimed the title in 2005 and 2006 and Jangy Addy added the 2007 decathlon championship to his indoor heptathlon tile. Including the three
All-America certificates earned in 2007, Webb has coached Addy and Helwick to eight total All-America certificates in the heptathlon and decathlon. Last season, Addy s 5,688-point, SEC-winning heptathlon effort moved him to fourth on Tennessee s all-time list in the event. Helwick broke Tennessee s school record in the heptathlon with 5,917 points on his way to a second-place finish at the 2006 NCAA Indoor Championships. Addy recorded a third-place, 7,808-point finish at last year s NCAA Outdoor Championship that ranks as the seventh-highest decathlon score in school
history. Helwick won the Commissioners Award as the meet s highest scorer at the 2006 SEC Outdoor Championships.

Webb's throwing corps, headlined by junior Richard Wooten, has one senior among three juniors. Wooten broke Tennessee s freshman record in the weight throw in 2006 and last year moved to fifth on Tennessee s all-time list in the event. Wooten also ranks fifth in the hammer throw and is joined by Nick Panezich, who used his sophomore campaign, which included him becoming the first Vol to ever qualify for the Mideast Regional in three different individual events, to move to ninth on the all-time hammer list. Matthew Maloney placed sixth on Tennessee s all-time list in the javelin while earning All-America honors in his first season after transferring from Oregon.

In 2004, Webb coached javelin thrower Leigh Smith to a school-record mark of 267-11, a third-place finish at the Olympic trials and his third SEC javelin title with a meet-record throw. In the indoor season, Webb coached true freshman Helwick to All-America honors in the heptathlon. Helwick and 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, and 24th overall, SEC outdoor title.

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 four times. Webb also led
the Vols to the 1996 SEC indoor title. Florida s 2004 indoor title is the only conference championship not won by Tennessee or Arkansas since 1992.

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. Entering his fourth season, assistant coach Norbert Elliott (sprints/hurdles/horizontal jumps) showed signs he s plenty capable of continuing Tennessee s impressive
tradition in his event area.

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 10 times since 1991, most recently an indoor title in 2006.

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, 76 Division I All-Americas and 48 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 25 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 former volunteer coach Jim 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, went 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 Minnesota basketball coach Tubby Smith comprised half of High Point's school-record shuttle hurdle relay team, a mark that still stands. Webb also played guard on High Point s basketball team for two seasons, helping the Panthers to a runner-up national finish in 1968. 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.