Education
Neil Ellett graduated from Burnaby North Secondary School.
Neil Ellett graduated from Burnaby North Secondary School.
He began playing for Vancouver North Shore of the Pacific Coast Soccer League when he was seventeen. He played at least one season (1969-1970) in the Pacific Coast Soccer League (when the league was amateur) with soccer club Croatia South Carolina (U.S.) He also played for Vancouver Eintracht. His only Whitecap was the first scored by the team in their history, on May 4, 1974 at Empire Stadium.
From 1967 to 1973, Ellett made 12 "B" (Olympic) and seven "A" appearances for Canada.
He was part of Canada"s Pan American Games team in 1967 and 1971 as well as the Olympic Qualifying team in 1971. He also participated in one round of Qualifiers in 1972 (he was 27 years old when he made his debut at the "A" level).
Ellett is currently a soccer referee and a National referee assessor in British Columbia. He was inducted into the Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.
He also played for the member of the Canadian national and Olympic soccer teams. Ellett was an original member of the Vancouver Whitecaps, playing with the team in 1974 and 1975. He is also a member of the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame.