A self-described basketball junkie, coach Ezra Ayala has over 12 years of experience coaching and joined St. Mary's as the head coach of girls basketball in 2022. He has coached girls and boys middle school basketball for nine years at Talent Middle School. Ezra has coached various AAU and Manny League teams. He has over three years of experience coaching Little League Baseball. Ezra has a degree in Social Work and has worked in the field for over ten years. Ezra is a commercial and editorial photographer, a co-host for seven vacation rentals in Puerto Rico, and a part-time professor at Southern Oregon University.
Coach Ezra and his wife live in Ashland with their three children.
Skylar Glines has been playing basketball since she was five years old. Skylar played four years of high school basketball and seven years of AAU basketball. She is very passionate about all sports, but basketball is her specialty. Skylar has been coaching basketball since 2016. She started coaching 3rd and 4th graders in her hometown of Red Bluff, CA. She moved to Oregon in 2018 to attend SOU and began coaching at Talent Middle School. After coaching for one year at the middle school, she moved on as the coach at Phoenix High School. Skylar did two seasons at Phoenix High School before becoming the assistant coach for Varsity Girls Basketball coach and head coach of the JV Girls Basketball team at St. Mary’s.