Trabuco Hills Again Selects Ellis as Coach

Tim Ellis has been named varsity baseball coach at Trabuco Hills High, boys’ Athletic Director Rainer Wulf said Wednesday. Ellis replaces Randy Brouwer, who resigned after the 1998 season.

In 1995, while still the football coach at Tustin, Ellis was hired to take over at Trabuco Hills after longtime coach Jim Barnett resigned. A week later, the offer was rescinded after the school’s booster club protested the selection.

Ellis tried to go back to Tustin but was told by school officials that someone else would be hired. He eventually joined Mike Milner’s football staff at El Toro as the receivers coach, and assisted Tom McCaffrey with the baseball team.

“In my opinion, it’s a credit to Tim that he saw the positives of our school and the baseball program,” said Wulf, who took over as boys’ athletic director this summer. “For him to say he wanted to be here and not hold [a grudge] from the things that happened last time tells me a lot about the character of the man.”

Ellis taught math at El Toro and will teach the same subject at Trabuco Hills this fall.

“Any time you lose a good man, a solid teacher and an outstanding coach, the impact is definitely felt on the program he leaves,” Milner said. “Tim’s been a great football and baseball assistant here the last three years. But he wanted to run his own program and is deserving of that.”

Ellis’ last baseball head coaching job was at Bellflower St. John Bosco from 1989-91. His teams were 55-12 in three seasons, winning the Del Rey League title in 1990 and the Angelus League title in ’91.