Tyma left college after his freshman season to turn professional with the Kansas City Comets of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
In 1984, Klaas de Boer left Cleveland State to become the head coach of the expansion Canton Invaders of the American Indoor Soccer Association.
[3] He returned to the indoor game that winter in Canton, where he would help the team repeat as champions in 1986 and finish as runners-up in 1987.
[9] However, a few weeks later, Wave coach Keith Tozer decided to return Tyma's rights to the Thunder who failed to protect him in the expansion draft.
Following his retirement from playing, Tyma became a referee in the National Professional Soccer League and later in the college ranks.