Our Coaches

Scott Zymball started his gymnastic’s career in 1977 for Sokol, South Omaha. During his time as a youngster in the sport, he was a state and regional champion, and in 1987 he helped his Papillion- LaVista High School gymnastics team become state champions. Scott also won individual state titles on both vault and pbars. 

Scott started coaching boys and girls in the sport of gymnastics at 17 years of age and quickly rose up the ranks to become a Boys Program Director and Head Coach three years later. During this time, Scott coached multiple state, regional and national champions. In addition to this, he was the Head Boys and Girls Gymnastics Coach for Papillion- LaVista High School from 1996-2001, where they won the last ever girls state title. 

Over the years Scott has coached several national, regional, state team and

individual gymnasts; as well as coached at many national, regional, and state gymnastic camps/clinics. He has also had several gymnasts qualify to participate in the USA Junior National Team camps. More recently, Scott had three Junior Elite gymnasts win third as a Club/team at the 2022 US Men's Development Program National Championships.

Scott has been a member of the Junior Regional Coaching staff for the last 5 years and a part of the USA Gymnastics Floor Manager team at senior elite competitions, such as USA Qualifiers and USA Olympic Trials. 

Andrew started in the sport of gymnastics at the early age of 3. He trained in Omaha, Neb., under Phil Cahoy Sr., a former Nebraska Men's Gymnastics assistant coach. During his time as a junior gymnast, Andrew earned a 2nd place finish on parallel bars in the JO National All-Around and Event Finals. At the 2014 USA Gymnastics Nebraska High School Championships, Andrew took the all-round title and also earned first-place finishes on floor, vault and parallel bars and second-place finishes on pommel horse, rings and high bar. Andrew graduated from Papillion-La Vista High School in 2014.

Andrew majored in nutrition and exercise health sciences and earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska (UNL)  in May of 2019. During his time at UNL he was also a member of the Nebraska Men's Gymnastics team from 2015-2019. He helped lead the Huskers to multiple NCAA final competitions and their highest third place finish in over 20 years. He was a four-time Academic All-Big Ten selection. He was Nebraska's Big Ten Sportsmanship Award winner for men's gymnastics in 2019 and a ten-time member of the Nebraska Scholar-Athlete Honor Roll.

Andrew began coaching in 2019 and has quickly made an impact in the sport. He has three gymnasts who earned spots on the Junior Development National Team. Just recently, he was a member of the Junior National Coaching Staff for the 2022 Junior Developmental National Team Camp held at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.  

Dave has been involved in the sports of mens gymnastics for most of his life, first as a gymnast himself, and then as a coach and a FIG rated judge. Having him part of the boys competitive coaching team at ZnZ Gymnastics has been a tremendous asset, not just from a coaching perspective but also in assisting in the technical and scoring side of this sport.

As a gymnast Dave competed for Sokol Omaha as well as for his Omaha South High School. During his senior year he won the Nebraska state floor title. He continued his gymnastics career as a Husker at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under Francis Allen for 2 years until he sustained a career-ending knee injury.  

After college, Dave pursued a teaching career for Ralston Public Schools where he taught Biology, Physical Science, Earth Science, Zoology, and Human Anatomy. Dave continued in the sport as the mens and womens gymnastics coach at Ralston High School for 23 years until the state association dropped gymnastics as a school sport. Dave never lost his love for coaching, and continued coaching the boys and girls dive team for Ralston, producing numerous state champions. 

Dave has been the Nebraska state chairman for USA Gymnastics for 28 years. He has also been a men’s gymnastics judge for 36 years and judged at numerous state, regional, and college competitions, including four Men’s Big 10 Championships and two Men’s NCAA Championships.