Ocoee High brings Bobby Brewer back as baseball coach, Knights’ winningest coach in past 20 years

Longtime Central Florida youth and high school baseball coach Bobby Brewer — who spent the last six seasons as the coach of his alma mater, Apopka High — is set to return to West Orange County as Ocoee High’s next baseball coach. Brewer replaces Trent Hopper, who took over the program in 2023.

Brewer, who spent five seasons as the Knights coach, returns to Ocoee as its winningest baseball coach in the past 20 seasons with a total record of 67-60-1 from 2014-18 with three winning seasons and one regional playoff appearance. In 2017, Brewer led Ocoee baseball to a 18-9 record, its most wins in a season over the past two decades.

Prior to his time as Ocoee coach, Brewer spent six seasons as the softball coach for the Knights’ other biggest rivals, West Orange High. Under Brewer, the Warriors had a overall record of 131-30, they won five district titles and made a run to the state final four in 2013; Brewer was named district coach of the year three times. 

The move to the softball diamond came after Brewer spent 16 years as an assistant coach for the Blue Darters baseball team but his biggest accomplishment as a coach came at the youth level, when he led an Apopka Little League squad to the national title in 2001.

In his six seasons as Apopka High’s head coach, Brewer led to Blue Darters to a 91-48 overall record and three appearances in the district championship game.