Coach Meredith was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, and she attended Eureka High School, in Eureka, MO. She spent all four years as a cheerleader for the Wildcats, with her leading the squad as captain for three of those four years and cheered for football, basketball, and wrestling. She was devoted to her squad, came up with and choreographed many cheers and stunts over the years, and simply loved being a cheerleader. It was this love of cheerleading that inspired her to accept a position at Rogers High School as a cheerleading coach in 2022.
Meredith is a member of USA Cheer, the MN State High School Coaches Association, has completed the NFHS Cheer and Dance Safety Certification, and is current with all MSHSL continuing education requirements and courses. She is also a member of the Minnesota Cheerleading Coaches Association (MCCA) and currently serves on the board as the Cheer Off Director.
Meredith is the head coach and program director of the Rogers Royals Cheerleading program, and will be coaching the Varsity Sideline, JV Sideline, Varsity Game Day, JV Game Day, JV Traditional, and Middle School Traditional teams.
Meredith attended the University of Missouri where she got her Bachelor's of Science in Nursing. She has been working as an L&D RN for over 21 years and currently works at Maple Grove Hospital.
Meredith relocated to Minnesota in 2019, and currently resides in Otsego. She is married to her husband, Eric, with whom she has five children: Jackson, Wyatt, Logan, Cohen, and Piper. She also loves photography, baking, home improvement, and almost anything else that she puts her mind to.
Coach Kristen is a Minnesota native and began her career in cheerleading in 8th grade at Osseo Senior High School in Osseo, MN. During her high school years, she cheered for both football and basketball teams while also being a member of the competition squad. Kristen was captain during her junior and senior years, and her team earned 1st place at the MCCA Great MN Cheer Off in her junior year. Kristen also earned a spot on the MCCA All-State Cheerleading team during her junior and senior years.
Kristen continued cheering in her collegiate years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she cheered co-ed all four years for both football and basketball. While attending UW, Kristen earned a Bachelor of Science degree and went on to earn her Master's Degree in Nursing at Marquette University.
Kristen will be coaching some of our competition teams, as time allows, as she just welcomed a new baby into her family.
Kristen worked as a Regsitered Nurse in surgery and community internal medicine for several years before transitioning to her current role as an Informatics Analyst for Mayo Clinic. Kristen resides in Otsego with her husband, Ben, three children - Isla, Emmett, and Elloree - and their goldendoodle, Mona.
Coach Kacey graduated from Rogers High School in 2025. She cheered on the sideline and competition teams for 2 years. In her senior year of high school, she was a junior coach for the middle school competition team. During her last year of cheerleading, she was selected to be on the MCCA All State Sideline team, and was hand picked to try out for UCA Staff. Cheerleading is one of her passions and she feels strongly that the sport of cheerleading builds character and confidence, in addition to building strong leadership skills.
In her time spent helping coach the middle schoolers, it made her realize what she wanted to do with her future. Kacey will be attending North Hennepin Community College, majoring in Elementary Education in hopes of becoming a future educator. She found passion for this sport because of Coach Rowley and Kacey aspires to influence the girls on the middle school team as her coach did for her.
Kacey will be coaching all of our teams - sideline and competition - as her school and work schedule allows.
Coach Valerie was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and cheered all four years of high school at Oak Creek High School. She later moved to Minnesota, where she cheered with the Planet Spirit Cyclones from ages 18 to 26. Throughout her adult life, Valerie has remained passionate about cheerleading, coaching numerous all-star and high school teams over the past 22 years.
Valerie will be coaching our Varsity Game Day, JV Traditional, and Middle School competitive teams.
Valerie currently lives in Dayton, Minnesota, with her two children and her fiancé, Bob. She works as a Program Coordinator in Community Education with ISD 728. In her free time, she enjoys camping and spending time outdoors—especially during the summer—and loves making the most of every opportunity to spend quality time with her children.
Katelyn grew up in Spokane, Washington where she began dancing at the age of three. She trained and competed for a studio company in the genres of tap, jazz, ballet and hip hop. In high school, she auditioned for the Drill/Dance Team and competed in dance, drill, kick and pom categories. Pom being her favorite because it was high energy that combined jazz, hip-hop, and cheer inspired movements all while dancing with pom-poms.
This excitement opened new opportunities for Katelyn and she used her artistry of dance to lead her varsity high school cheer team as captain her junior and senior year. Katelyn cheered for Mt. Spokane High School and did sideline cheer for football, volleyball, basketball and wrestling and also choreographed routines for halftime performances, pep rallies, and parades!
Katelyn’s passion for dance and cheer continued through her college years at Brigham Young University-Idaho and she performed on the collegiate spirit team and dance team. Since then, Katelyn has coached middle school sideline cheer in Mead, Washington, recreational cheerleading in Ramsey, MN, has judged tryouts for Rogers cheer, and has years of experience teaching and choreographing for dance studios and gymnastics gyms in the surrounding areas.
Katelyn and her family reside in Elk River, MN. She is married to Brad and together they have 4 daughters. The Duffy family spends much of their time supporting each other in our various hobbies (soccer, dance, running, swimming), volunteering at church, boating in the summer, and traveling!
Katelyn will be coaching our Elementary competitive team.
Coach Wyatt graduated from Rogers High School in 2025. He played soccer and football for Rogers from 8th to 12th grade, was captain of his JV football team, and watched from the sidelines as the cheerleading program grew. Wyatt even got into "Rog" a few times to help bolster spirit with the cheerleaders from the sidelines, performed at homecoming as a football player stunting with the cheerleaders, and has been roped into stunting with his cheerleader friends on many occasions.
After attending so many cheerleading competitions to support his mom as she coached and little sister as she cheered, Wyatt grew to really enjoy the sport of cheerleading, which is what motivated him to want to help coach. Wyatt is currently working at Boston Scientific in Maple Grove.
Wyatt will be coaching our Elementary and Middle School competitive teams.