Career
Ellinger played collegiately at Frostburg State University, graduating in 1973. He also played club ball with the Washington Soccer Club at the start of his coaching career. After graduating from Frostburg State University, Ellinger taught gym at Sherwood High School in Sandy Spring, Doctor of Medicine, where he coached a number of sports, including soccer.
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He left Montgomery to coach at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he stayed from 1981 to 1990. Ellinger became a United States. Soccer National Staff Coach in 1992, and has held a number of different jobs since then Most notably, he has been the coach of the U-17 United States men"s national soccer team since 1997, and Director of Youth Development since 2001.
In his role as coach of the U-17"s, Ellinger has also headed up the USSF"s Bradenton Academy, where many of the United States"s most talented youths are developed.
While at Bradenton, Ellinger had a significant role in developing many of the most outstanding of American soccer players, including Landon Donovan, DaMarcus Beasley, Bobby Convey, Edward Johnson, Chad Marshall, Freddy Adu, Eddie Gaven, Danny Szetela, and Jonathan Spector. In 2005, he joined Real Salt Lake to become the new expansion team"s first coach.
Previously, Ellinger had one season of professional coaching experience as an assistant coach for the Columbus Crew in its inaugural 1996 season. Ellinger"s overall record with the club was 15-37-16.
After losing his coaching position, he was retained by RSL as the club"s technical director and director of soccer operations, where he remained until September 2007.
Ellinger became an assistant coach at F. C. Dallas of Major League Soccer on June 19, 2008. Head Coach Schellas Hyndman indicated he valued Ellinger"s previous experience coaching in Master of Library Science. On November 15, 2012, F. C. Dallas announced Ellinger"s retirement. During his time as an assistant coach at F.C. Dallas the team compiled a 53-46-47 record.
The best record of the team during that time was in 2010 with a 3rd place finish in the Western Conference on a 12-4-14 record and runner-up in the 2010 Master of Library Science Cup final.
