Meet The Coaches

Kati started cheering at a very young age. She facilitated collaborations between the cheer team and dance teams in her high school days and went on to cheer at the University of Wisconsin – River Falls. She coached the East Ridge High School Fall dance team program in 2018 and 2019 where she was integral in growing the program from a one group team of 15 dancers, to two teams totaling more than 70 dancers. During her coaching at ERHS, Kati fought for her teams to have more performance time and in her second season of coaching achieved that goal with the groups dancing pregame and halftime at home football games, doing basketball game appearances, and having both Junior Varsity and Varsity teams perform during pep rallies. Kati also assisted in the performance of the student-loved “partner” dance where the fall athletes paired up with the Varsity dancers to perform at the Homecoming pep rally. Kati works full time at a local patent law firm. She has two beautiful girls, Ava and Mya, a loving husband, Jeff, a cat, Noelle, and a new puppy, Charlie. When Kati isn’t working or coaching, you can find her out on the trails training for her next marathon. 

Kati looks forward to joining the Stillwater Chevals family. Shimmer shimmer...

Heather began dancing at the age of four with Yackel School of Dance. She studied extensively in ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, and hip hop.  During her years at the dance studio, she taught classes for young children and assisted with technique classes.   Her senior year, she received a scholarship that allowed her to take extra classes in technique, instruction, and choreography.  After high school, she guest taught at numerous neighborhood dance studios and assisted with try-out processes as well as judging competitions.  In high school, she took part in the Dance Team and Cheer Team.  She was the recipient of the Heather Habek award at the Just For Kix dance camps two years and was also able to join them in dancing in the Citrus Bowl halftime show.  Heather became involved with the Dance Team world once again when her daughter, Rachel, danced for the Park High School team.  She was a booster club member as well as the treasurer for two seasons.  Heather believes that dance is an amazing mixture of self expression through movement, athleticism through continuous training and technique, and discipline.  She is currently working at the high school as a special education paraprofessional while attending graduate school.  In her free time, she is traveling to visit her children that are stationed in different states and spoiling her grand-kitten Lulu. 

Lynsey Davis began her dance training at the age of four at Woodbury Dance Center. She started competing at age five as a "Ruby" and continued through high school, ultimately graduating from their "Topaz" line. During high school, Lynsey participated in the Woodbury High School dance team, where she was captain for her senior year. She then went on to dance at the collegiate level for the University of Lincoln-Nebraska for two years before transferring to the University of Iowa where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Human Physiology. Lynsey has taught and choreographed for dance studios such as Pure Movement Dance Institute, Woodbury Dance Center, DelMonico Dance, and Momentum Dance Project for the past 15 years. Her coaching extends further by coaching high school dance teams such as Woodbury High School's fall team in 2011 and choreographing duet routines for a few Hudson High School's dance team students in 2017 and 2018. She was head coach of the East Ridge High School Fall dance team program in 2018 and 2019, alongside Chevals head coach Kati Cheney. Lynsey works full time and lives with her husband, Brian, and two young boys, Charlie and Cameron. 

McKenzie grew up dancing from the age of 3 and found her home studio to be Woodbury Dance Center. She took classes in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, POM, and Lyrical. At age 13 she began the teaching assistant program at WDC and found teaching to be her passion. She looks forward to continuing to build relationships and sharing her love for dance with the Stillwater Chevals Dance Team.

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​Kaela danced in her elementary & high school years around the twin city area for several years. She enjoyed dancing on the Stillwater Chevals Dance Team throughout high school, and has been coaching at Stillwater since 2019. She has bounced around from coaching the Fall team, co-coaching the Winter team, and assisting both seasons throughout the last five years. Kaela is a second-year program director at Stillwater Just For Kix managing and coaching recreational and competitive classes for kids of all ages in Dance Basics, Jazz, Kick, Hip Hop, POM, solos, duets, private lessons and more. Kaela trained for this position at the Medina Just For Kix studio which ranks in the top 4 out of over 200 total JFK youth programs. Kaela is ecstatic to bring her coaching skills back to the Fall team this year as the assistant coach, and looks forward to choreographing, working with and bonding with the team.