Career Coaches

David Ellars

Year Inducted: 2024

Category: Career Coaches

Schools / Organizations: Tolono Unity Junior and Senior High Schools
Parkland College
Monticello High School
Salt Fork High School

Biography:

David has coached more than 30 years on the junior high, high school and junior college levels. Prior to taking over as girls’ head coach at Tolono Unity in 2018, he was associate head coach of the Parkland College women’s team from 2013-2018. The Cobras placed second nationally in 2016.

David also has been girls’ head coach at Monticello, Salt Fork and Tolono Unity Junior High. He started the Unity boys’ fifth/sixth grade program in 1989.