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Zach Line Helping ‘42 Strong’ Honor Tate Myre’s Memory in Oxford

Zach Line Helping ‘42 Strong’ Honor Tate Myre’s Memory in Oxford


In a town of fewer than 3,600 people, most know the Myre family.

Line recalled attending a wrestling meet before becoming the head football coach; on the drive home, his wife McKenzie commented on “the Myre boys” and how respectful and friendly Tate and his older brothers were.

“There are those kids, those rare breeds, who are intrinsically driven and make an impact just by example. When they speak, people listen,” Line said. “Tate was an extremely good athlete … and he backed that up with extremely hard work ethic. The way he led in the locker room.”

Line and Elling individually emphasized Tate’s uncanny ability to bring people together from all walks of life and all different cliques common throughout high school.

When Tate began dating Braydee, the young couple often spent three or four evenings a week at the Elling home – sometimes with groups of friends and other times just the two of them. But something that Elling observed is that Tate never retreated to the basement during visits; when he picked up Braydee for an activity, he never just waited in the car.

He was different than most teenagers, Elling noted.

“Whenever Braydee had friends over, my son Brennan would never be around. But when Tate was there? Brennan loved him. He’d come down in the living room, or they’d throw a football back and forth,” Elling said. “And my little daughter, Blake, she totally had a crush on Tate. She’d sit there and just stare at him. He was so good to them.

“He was a really family-oriented kid, and you could see that,” Elling added. “That’s where he was so special.”

Line often reminds his football players, “You never know who’s watching. You never know who you’re influencing.” And after the Oxford tragedy, it was clear just how strongly Tate held that mindset and how far his impact reached.

“What’s crazy is the amount of outreach I got from parents and outside communities like Orion, Lapeer, wherever, about Tate,” Line said. “We have an ETS Performance gym here in Oxford, and…

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