Jim Worth a military veteran and inspiration to the Titan team players from Brea, California who was hired by Coach Paul K. Miller was a wheelchair competitive tennis player in Southern California and was a pioneer with "International Tennis Hall of Famer" Brad Parks, David Saltz and Dave Kiley in starting a circuit/tour for competitive wheelchair tennis players with grand slam tournaments all around the world and wheelchair tennis is played in over 100 countries today. Coach Jan Billings years (1980–1982) (Assistant Coach: Dave Barrows '81, 1980–81 Season) In the early eighties under Coach Jan Billings the backbone of the Titans team was players Frank Ellis '83 and Michael Moore '84 who competed through the ups and downs of the men's tennis program. Billings who coached both the men's and women's Titan squad's from 1979 through 1982 3 years total during that time period and coached the women's team a total of 6 years. Billings had help with the 1980–81 Men's team with former Titans player Dave Barrows '81 was the assistant coach for the season. Coach Ed Burt years (1982–1984) Then came in toward the early mid-eighties was Coach Ed Burt who brought in a lot of talented good recruits and the tennis program was on the rise again with the additions of English junior college player by way of Florida Julian Lowin '85, Donny Young, South African player Craig McSmythe (1983 Ojai CIF H.S. Interscholastic Doubles Champion/The Wightman Cup/(Indio H.S.), William Schuster '85, Tim Macres, David Pratt and Everette Brunelle (1983 Ojai CIF H.S. Interscholastic Doubles Champion/The Wightman Cup/(Indio H.S.) the Titans added depth to their line up with these highly competitive players. These Titans teams were competing with collegiate tennis powerhouse's on their schedule like highly nationally ranked USC Trojans and also highly nationally ranked Pepperdine Waves along with San Diego State Aztecs, Boston University Terriers, South Carolina Gamecocks, Princeton Tigers, Nebraska Cornhuskers, University of New Mexico Lobos, University of San Diego Toreros and PCAA Conference highly national ranked foes UC Irvine Anteaters and Long Beach State 49ers at the time, even Division III number one nationally ranked opponent University of Redlands Bulldogs was really good during that time period on the Titans schedule. During Burt's short tenure the Titans had many victories against very good competitive school's likely due to their recruits and their depth in the line up of the Titan team. One of the