Marin district faces third suit over tennis coach who allegedly abused students

A former player has sued the Tamalpais Union High School District, claiming he was molested by a tennis coach beginning in 1999, the Marin Independent Journal reported.

The plaintiff, who attended a school in San Rafael but played on the tennis team at Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, said he was repeatedly abused by the coach, Normandie Santos Burgos.

Burgos was fired by the district in 2006 following similar allegations, but he continued working as a private coach. In 2019, he was convicted in Contra Costa County on 60 counts of molestation of two teenagers and is serving a 255-year sentence at Mule Creek State Prison.

Two other former players have also sued the school district over Burgos’ alleged abuse. In May, a Marin County jury awarded $10 million to one of those players, and another former player filed a lawsuit in November.

The school district had no comment on the most recent suit, but Superintendent Tara Taupier said the district has no “administrators or board members who were in their position when Mr. Burgos was employed by the district.”