Carl Wallin

Head Coach of Men's and Women's Field Events

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One of the most highly regarded field event experts in the country, Carl Wallin has only added to his legendary ledger in the last few years with the explosion of Adam Nelson '97 on the world scene. A shot putter, Nelson won the 1997 NCAA outdoor crown and finished second at the 1998 NCAA indoor championships.

During the summer of 2000, Nelson won the Olympic trials with a world-best throw of 72-7. At the Sydney and Athens Olympic Games, Nelson claimed the silver medal. and he won the 2005 Wold Championship in Helsinki. Nelson's lifetime best throw is 73-10 1/4.

Prior to Nelson's emergence, Wallin had already established himself as one of the nation's top field coaches -- overall, he has coached 29 All-Americans, 38 New England champions, 87 Heptagonal titleists and 15 IC4A and ECAC champions in 39 years at Dartmouth College. His athletes have set every Big Green field event record.

During the 2005 outdoor season, Mustafa Abdur-Rahim and Sean Furey joined Wallin's long list of All-Americans. At the NCAA outdoor championship, Abdur-Rahim finished second in the decathlon and Furey was third in the javelin.

A 1966 graduate of Northeastern University, Wallin was the first New Englander to put the shot more than 60 feet and held the New England intercolletiate record of 61-6 1/2 for many years. Wallin was the 1965 IC4A champion and runner-up in national AAU competition, as well as a two-time NCAA All-American.

Wallin has been the New England TAC coordinator and the shot put coach for the U.S. Olympic Development Camp. He has also served as the national hammer chair for the Olympic Development Committee and is a former president of the IC4A after serving as Heps president in 1983. As a coach, Wallin has been selected NCAA District 1 coach of the year four times in the last 11 years.

In 1979, Wallin helped three of his weightman sweep the IC4A titles in the 35 lb. weight, led by All-America and NCAA post-graduate scholarship winner Ed Kania '79. During the past few seasons, Wallin's field event competitors have been prominent across the board at the conference, regional and national levels, scoring in all of the jumping and multi-events (pentathlon, heptathlon and decathlon).

Wallin coached the U.S. team in West Germany in 1985 and the United States junior national team in 1988. As a competitor, he placed first at the 1989 World Masters Championships in the shot put. At 6-3 and 245 pounds, he is still one of the most active coaches and competitors in the country.

Wallin, who served in the U.S. Army from 1967-69, lives in Lebanon, N.H. with his wife, Bonnie (who announces at many of Dartmouth's home meets). The couple has two children, John, the assistant track coach at Adams State in Colorado, and Lisa, who is a school teacher in Dedham, Mass. and an assistant track coach at Tufts.