Staff

  • Staff

Chelsea Dennis
Director
Chelsea Dennis is our Celebrity Cheer & ECE Londonderry Director and has over 16 years of coaching experience and over 11 years of marketing and management experience. She started her cheerleading career locally as a Pop Warner Londonderry Panther, moved up through Junior Lancers, LMS Storm, LHS Lancers, and on to cheer for the University of New Hampshire Wildcats. She was also a competitive cheerleader for Cheer Gym, Celebrity All Stars, and East Celebrity Elite for 7 years. Chelsea has coached tumbling since 2006, coached at LHS from 2011-2022 and has been at ECE since 2018. She is also a full-time Marketing Manager for Bellavance Beverage Co. and resides locally in Londonderry with her family. Chelsea is USASF, First Aid and CPR/AED certified.
Laurie Mahoney
Admin
Craig Fortin
Head Tumbling Coach
Leah Gibbons
Tumbling Coach
Hannah Meier
Tumbling Coach
Kendall Hall
Tumbling Coach
Faith McAuliffe
Tumbling Coach
Abbi Morin
Tumbling Coach
Kristina Toney
Tumbling Coach
Kristina Toney is one of our tumbling coaches at ECE Londonderry. She comes to ECE with extensive knowledge and experience in all aspects of cheerleading and tumbling instruction.  She works with kids of all ages and ability levels and is proficient at spotting and teaching all levels of tumbling, from Level 1 through 5. Kristina was a competitive cheerleader for Pinkerton Academy in NH where she earned 5 State Championships and 3 New England Championships. She also competed as an all-star cheerleader at the Cheerleading Worlds twice, once as a Senior in High School and once as an International athlete. Upon graduation from Pinkerton in 2011, Kristina was appointed as the Junior Varsity coach and earned 11 State Championships in this capacity with her team. Kristina is currently the coach of Hood School in Derry and is also employed as a lead pre-school teacher at It Takes a Village. Kristina is CPR/SAFETY/AED certified and is available for private lessons.
Rebecca Lincoln
Coach
Becca is one of our tumbling instructors and Half Year program coaches. She has experience cheering for Pinkerton Academy, the University of New Hampshire, and most currently, our ECE Worlds team, SWAT. She has also been coaching for almost as long as she has been cheering. From youth programs and all-stars to high school, Becca has coached at many different levels. She currently coaches at Hood Middle School in Derry and our Half Year program!
Tracy Hussey
Coach
Tracy has an extensive coaching background with 20+ years of experience coaching all-star, high school, AYC, college, and has been with ECE for 18 years. She also has been a judge for AYC for the last four years. She currently coaches Mini Villains and Tiny Enchanted, although she has coached all stars at different ages up through Level 3. She started her cheerleading career back in 2001 coaching JV and Varsity for Salem High School. She loves working with children, the Celtics, traveling, and enjoys spending time with her family. She has a 12 year daughter named Ella who cheers for ECE and Tracy is currently a Third Grade teacher for the Pelham School District. She is USASF and CPR/First Aid certified.
Kylee Winnett
Coach
Kylee is an alumni of ECE Tewksbury, working her way up from the prep program to being a captain on C5 in 2014. She began coaching in Londonderry in 2013 and has been a familiar face here every summer working camps, classes, and assisting with teams. While in college, Kylee cheered on Cheer Extreme Senior Elite and Cougars, earning two silver medals at the Cheerleading Worlds. She is so excited to be back at her home program.
Colleen Gillis
Coach
Colleen started cheering at 4 years old and moved her way up through CYO, Middle School, and High School cheerleading. In 2013, she began cheering and coaching at All That Sensations, which has now joined us at ECE! Colleen also coaches Alvirne High School and teams at both our Londonderry and Tewksbury locations. She has also been coaching tumbling since 2012!
Emma Meier
Coach

Emma started cheerleading in 2007 with her local Pop Warner team in Merrimack and made the jump to ECE in 2012. She started on Youth 1 worked her way up to SWAT, ECE’s international non-tumbling level 6 team, in 2019. Alongside ECE, Emma was also on Merrimack High School’s varsity cheer team from 2015 until 2018. That same year she started coaching classes and running our camps. Emma decided to further her career in coaching in 2019 by taking on a prep team and then began coaching full year in 2020. This past season her full year team, Blackout, attended The Summit. They placed 4th in semifinals and made it to finals for the first time in ECE Londonderry history. Outside of ECE, Emma is studying elementary education with the goal of becoming an elementary school teacher in the future. Emma is also USASF and CPR certified.

Leanne Meier
Coach
Leanne has been involved in cheerleading for over 15 years with experience ranging from Pop Warner, AYC, high school, and all-star programs. Leanne has coached a variety of levels and currently coaches Merrimack Pop Warner, Merrimack High School, and has coached our Londonderry prep teams since 2017. She is a mom to 5 daughters all of who have and or currently cheer at ECE.
Steph Brodsky
Coach

Steph is a highly regarded cheer and tumble coach who has been with us since 2004. She has coached all levels from tinys to high school and everything in between. She currently coaches our ECE half year teams and tumbling classes, and is also a friendly face at the front desk. Her favorite tumbling skills to teach are tucks and fulls, and she is also available for private lessons. 

Stephanie Sambataro
Coach

Stephanie is a Celebrity Cheer alum whose path led her back to ECE in 2022. She is an experienced tumbling instructor and is excited to be coaching Mini Villains this season. Stephanie works full time in finance and resides in Salem with her family. She is also available for private lessons!

Sami Bograd
Coach