Lewis Back at Adams.

Written Wednesday June 14th at 11:45 AM

Well that didn’t take long, Shay Lewis is back in the game.

Lewis was rehired as the Girls Varsity Basketball Coach at Rochester Adams succeeding Jackie Steinacker. She is Adams fourth coach in six seasons.

Steinacker was Lewis’s assistant led Adams to a district crown last season.

Lewis was at Oakland University as the Director of Operations for the Women’s Basketball team. She then stepped down after the season making a return to Adams a real possibility.

She also worked for a group called Detroit Pal as well.

Lewis played under legendary coach Fran Scislowicz and when Scislowicz stepped down from coaching, Lewis took over the team in 2013.

Lewis takes over a team that finished 8-15 and was last place in the Red but she has two key players returning in MaKayla Smith and Grace Van Pelt. Lewis has had the luxury to have players like Amber Jamison, Raiven Owusu, Taylor Smith, Ryian Owusu, Maggie Rogers, and Hannah Simard that she coached in the past.

Thoughts

This is an interesting that Lewis is back in the game but this is a different Highlanders team than she is accustomed too. She will have talent back with Smith and Van Pelt but her team will be a bit inexperienced this upcoming season.

It is unknown if Steinacker returns to Adams as an assistant, she and Lewis are close friends.

The schedule is difficult as well when you have to play Farmington Hills Mercy to open up the season along with Utica Eisenhower and that’s not league play yet in which they are in the Red in which they will have to deal with Bloomfield Hills, Stoney Creek, Southfield Arts and Tech, North Farmington, Clarkston, and Orion. Adams is in a tough district at Stoney Creek with the Cougars, Utica Eisenhower, Rochester, and Romeo.

Stay tuned to OAA Now for the latest on this developing story.