DCA Coaching Staff

Amanda Maronese

Amanda is the owner of Dynamite Cheer All Stars Inc. She has over 25+ years of cheerleading and coaching experience. Amanda has coached both at the elementary and high school level over her career including the Provincial Champions Hillcrest HS. She has also coached team in her all star program to numerous Regional and National championships. Most recently, her youth level 4 team won a bid to the All Star World Championships where they came in third place. Over the years Amanda has completed many certification and training courses including ICU level credentialing, AACCA certification, safe sport training, respect in spot training, making headway concussion training just to name a few. Amanda is First Aid and CPR certified. She also keeps up to date on all currents trends, skills, and coaching techniques as well as all the current rules and regulations. Amanda is a current member in good standing with Cheer Canada as well as being the former president of the Ontario Cheerleading Federation, completing a 7 year term. Amanda is the current head coach for Blackout and Force.

Suzy Hill

Nicole Desrosiers

Nicole is one of the coaches for the DCA Dreamers. Nicole has 10+ years cheerleading/coaching experience and is AACCA certified. Nicole has the knowledge needed to keep athletes on track and motivated to do their best. She is also First Aid and CPR certified.

Lorena Brady

Lorena is one of the coaches for the DCA Dreamers. With 20+ years dance/teaching experience, 9+ years cheerleading/coaching experience. Lorena has the experience and qualifications needed to encourage athletes to reach their full potential. She is AACCA and Level 3 certified, and also has many other cheerleading, dancing, and teaching qualifications. Lorena is a registered nurse and is First Aid and CPR certified.

Marlena Topetto

Dev Eiris

Marlena has over 14 years combined athletic and coaching experience. Marlena’s coaching experience includes all-star levels 1, 2, 3 and 4.2, as well as experience at the intermediate and advanced scholastic level.
Marlena has successfully coached numerous teams to regional, national and grand national titles. Passionate about creating a fun, safe and encouraging environment for her teams, Marlena is eagerly joining the experienced coaching staff of DCA.
Using a drills before skills style of coaching and ensuring a supportive learning environment for all athletes, Marlena is
the coach of Impact and assistant coaching team Blackout.

Dev is DCA’s tumbling coach! Dev comes to us from a cheer and gymnastics background. They started out doing cheer for two years in middle school then picked up gymnastics along the way. Shortly after starting gymnastics, Dev left cheer to continue their own gymnastics training, and began learning to coach. They did one last year of cheer in high school, and continued coaching gymnastics for 6 years throughout high school and college. After being on hiatus from the gymnastics/cheer world for almost 6 years while working in early childhood education field, they are excited to be back coaching!

Taylor Dubray

Taylor has been an athlete with DCA since 2015. After falling in love with this sport Taylor was given the opportunity to be an assistant coach before continuing on to coach her own team for the last 4 years. Taylor is passionate about coaching all of her athletes to their fullest potential. Taylor is currently an athlete on Team force as well as coaching team Fury. She is also working towards completing her ICU level credentialing.

Olivia Martin

Olivia has 10+ years of gymnastics and tumbling experience. She has been part of DCA as an athlete for over 6+ years. Olivia was most recently an athlete on team Fury, winning a bronze medal at the All Star World Championships. Olivia is currently working towards completing her ICU level credentialing as well, she is currently a certified babysitter with basic CPR and First aid training. Olivia is currently an athlete on team Force and has experience as a base, back spotting and tumbling. Olivia is also coaching team Fury.

Avery Knezevic

Avery is 16 years old, and this is her 5th year of cheerleading, currently she is on force, a junior level 4 team. Avery has been coaching for 3 years, currently she is coaching energy, but prior to this team she coached the sparks prep team for 2 years. Before cheerleading Avery did Ballet, Acro, Jazz, and Tap.

Cloey Hrabok

Cloey has 5 years competitive gymnastics & dance experience and 3 years competitive cheerleading experience. She is currently an athlete on team Force and has experience as a base and a backspot. Cloey has been a coach for DCA's prep teams for 2 years and is now coaching team Energy. Cloey is also working towards completing her ICU level credentialing.

Haileigh Andrews

Haileigh has 4 years of cheerleading experience and 2 years of coaching experience. Haileigh is currently an athlete on team force, as well as coaching shooting Stars. Haileigh also helped coached team voltage last season. Haileigh is currently working towards completing her ICU level credentialing.

Rhyan Godden

Rhyan has 4 years of cheerleading experience, and 2 years of coaching experience with DCA. Rhyan is currently an athlete on team force, while also coaching shooting stars. Last season Rhyan was a coach for DCA's prep team. Rhyan is currently working to complete her ICU level credentialing.