This Newsletter, # 24 for 2009, covers the recently announced May retirements of two of America's top decathlon coaches, Bill Webb of Tennessee and Carl Wallin of Dartmouth. Official announcemnets from the respective Sports Information Offices are used. Both coaches dominated their respective leagues multi-events, the SEC and the Heptagonals. Their most recognizable decathletes were Tom Pappas/Tennessee, 1999 NCAA champ, and Mustafa Abdur-Rahim/Dartmouth, 2005 NCAA runner-up.CLICK HERE Volume XXXIVNumber 24May(5)2009