Zyla Takes Over EJHS Boys’ Basketball Program
By Jeff Steers JTV Sports (July 14, 2021 4:37 PM) New East Jackson High School boys’ basketball Coach Ryan Zyla learned many valuable lessons while attending college at Lake Superior State University. His most valuable one may be to continuously “hammer the stone.” Zyla takes over for Rodney Lowden as the varsity head basketball coach at EJHS. The Trojans have averaged approximately eight wins per season the last seven campaigns. Last winter EJHS was 3-9 in a COVID-19 shortened season. Zyla coaches high school students at Michigan Sports Facility and has some experience in the Cascades Conference after having coached at Vandercook Lake. “We used the expression ‘hammer the stone’ at Lake Superior,” Zyla said. “You aren’t going to break the stone on the first hit. “You have to work on it.” Zyla works as the facility director at Michigan Sports Facility and is the director of the Flight Program – AAU basketball teams from MSF. He also coached at the varsity level at Vandercook Lake. Zyla has worked with a few of his new players, but not all of them. “That is the tough part is I have not met all of the kids,” Zyla said. “The key is…
