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About HEC

At Houston Elite Cheer, we love ALL of our athletes and strive tenaciously to live up to our name.  Season 9 is in the making.  Come and be a part of this AMAZING program. We would love to have you! 

our Staff

Dana Biggers

Griffin Simpson

Griffin Simpson

Owner & CEO/Private Lesson Specialist

Dana Biggers is the owner and CEO of Houston Elite Cheer. Dana has been involved in gymnastics and cheerleading her entire life. In her early childhood, she was a competitive gymnast under the direction of Gary Daw at Universal Gymnastics and competed as a level 8 optional gymnast. She then switched ov

Owner & CEO/Private Lesson Specialist

Dana Biggers is the owner and CEO of Houston Elite Cheer. Dana has been involved in gymnastics and cheerleading her entire life. In her early childhood, she was a competitive gymnast under the direction of Gary Daw at Universal Gymnastics and competed as a level 8 optional gymnast. She then switched over to cheerleading in 6th grade and fell in love with the sport. She cheered at Trinity Episcopal, Central MS and Ball High School in her hometown, Galveston. She was a NCA All-American and UCA All-Star cheerleader throughout these years.  For college, she attended Sam Houston State where she cheered, competed and then transferred to the University of Houston and was awarded NCA All-American at the collegiate level. Dana cheered on the very first NATIONAL CHAMPION winning team at U of H in 2001 under the direction of Sean Garland. As captain her senior year, she led her team to victory and earned her first NCA National Champion collegiate title. She graduated with a degree in Political Science and Spanish. Dana has been coaching gymnastics and cheerleading for over 23 years. Dana produces incredible "game day" cheerleaders and loves to help prepare athletes for their school cheer tryouts but books up extremely fast. 


For the last 10 years, an average of 96% of the "Dana Girls" that trained with her on a weekly basis made the squad at their school/college. She is extremely talented in all aspects of cheerleading and tumbling. So if you are interested in junior high, high school or college cheerleading, she is THE one you need to see.  


Fun fact: Dana is fluent in Spanish and has also attended law school. She is scared of clowns. Dana is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and has a 5-year old son named Parker and a 4-year old daughter named RyLee.

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Griffin Simpson

Griffin Simpson

Griffin Simpson

Chief Marketing Officer

Griffin is a  graduate from Texas A&M University. Her love for children naturally led her to peruse a degree in Child Life, but she really found her passion through the courses in her Creative Studies minor.  


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Lakeyn Johnson

Griffin Simpson

Mitchel Schlichting

Senior Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Lakeyn Johnson has been cheering for 15 years. Doing both competitive cheer and school cheer, Lakeyn first started her cheering career at Westside Cheer Academy at 8 years old where she won two jump competitions. She then went on to cheer at Cheer Nation (now Prodigy) on a level 5 team and competed at NCA for th

Senior Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Lakeyn Johnson has been cheering for 15 years. Doing both competitive cheer and school cheer, Lakeyn first started her cheering career at Westside Cheer Academy at 8 years old where she won two jump competitions. She then went on to cheer at Cheer Nation (now Prodigy) on a level 5 team and competed at NCA for three years. Lakeyn also cheered at Morton Ranch High School on the varsity cheer team where she served as cheer captain for two years, winning the UCA summer camp jump competition for three years in a row, as well as being recognized as an All American cheerleader for UCA for three consecutive years. Lakeyn enjoyed cheering and perfecting many different elite skills throughout her cheer career. After High School Lakeyn first attended Louisiana State University and then transferred to the University of Houston where she received a degree in Nutrition. She loves kids and is now dedicated to teaching kids her same passion for cheerleading. She enjoys watching kids learn, grow and wants them to enjoy the sport just as much as she does. Lakeyn loves doing choreography and working with school teams.

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Mitchel Schlichting

Mitchel Schlichting

Mitchel Schlichting

Senior Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Mitchel "Mitch" Schlichting  has been part of HEC since the doors opened! He also been in the cheerleading arena for six years and has been coaching for over 10 years.  He started his cheer career on a Level 4 competitive team at The Pride of Texas and cheered there for three years.  After graduating from Bellai

Senior Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Mitchel "Mitch" Schlichting  has been part of HEC since the doors opened! He also been in the cheerleading arena for six years and has been coaching for over 10 years.  He started his cheer career on a Level 4 competitive team at The Pride of Texas and cheered there for three years.  After graduating from Bellaire High School, he coached tumbling classes, competitive and recreational cheer teams and taught private lessons to athletes 5-18 years of age.  Mitch also competed on Texas Lonestar Cheer Company's Level 6 team.  In 2013, he competed with Champion Cheer as a Level 6 athlete in Dallas.  Mitch competed at Worlds in 2013, and his team was awarded 4th place. He also competed at NCA in 2013 and 2015 as a Level 6 athlete. Mitch returned to Texas Cheer and competed again with Lvl 5 Redi. Mitch also cheered at the University of Houston co-ed squad for two years. GO COOGS!!!  He is a great coach and loves teaching kids of all ages how to tumble/stunt.

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Geris McMurray

Mitchel Schlichting

Helena Weathersby

Senior Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Geris McMurray has been cheering or coaching competitive and school for 27 years. I started at a gym called Northwest Allstars and went on to Texas Lonestar. Started cheering at U of H the year after Dana won, and my own title in 2003( Go Coogs!!). I coached at Texas Cheer, CheerNation and Prodigy Allstars from 

Senior Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Geris McMurray has been cheering or coaching competitive and school for 27 years. I started at a gym called Northwest Allstars and went on to Texas Lonestar. Started cheering at U of H the year after Dana won, and my own title in 2003( Go Coogs!!). I coached at Texas Cheer, CheerNation and Prodigy Allstars from 2001-2018, and have been the tumbling director at Olympia Gymnastics for 2 1/2 years. I love the process of building confidence, physical health, and doing what I can to make people happy. I've coached thousands of athletes over the years and never get tired of helping athletes achieve their goals and hope to be able to help as many HEC athletes as I can.

Fun fact: Lives in NW Houston with my wife Jennifer, and our dog Major. I am currently back at U of H, and have had the pleasure of coaching Mitch, Helena and Lakeyn. Geris has a son named Joseph born 6/27/22.

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Helena Weathersby

Mitchel Schlichting

Helena Weathersby

Senior Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Helena has been cheering and tumbling for 19 years beginning when she was 9 years old.  From the very beginning, she developed a great passion for cheerleading.  Throughout her years Helena has acquired and mastered both running and standing tumbling skills up to a double full and standing full,  perfected her j

Senior Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Helena has been cheering and tumbling for 19 years beginning when she was 9 years old.  From the very beginning, she developed a great passion for cheerleading.  Throughout her years Helena has acquired and mastered both running and standing tumbling skills up to a double full and standing full,  perfected her jump technique, learned how to be an effective base as well as a flyer, and perfected her motion technique and sharpness in order to make herself the best overall cheerleader possible.  She cheered and competed with two teams. First Storm All Stars (now called Apex) and then Texas Lonestar Cheer Company where she would complete her senior year of all star cheerleading before graduating and attending the University of Houston.  Her passion for cheer lead to her career as a coach.   In doing this, she can pass on all the skills that made her such a great cheerleader to other young and eager athletes while also gaining new knowledge for herself in order to be the most effective coach possible.

Helena graduated with a major in Kinesiology from the University of Houston where she also cheered and was named captain for her 3rd year as a cheerleader.  After a great 3rd year, Helena was overjoyed to receive the MVP award as captain for all of her leadership contributions. Even after 19 years of such an amazing sport, Helena continues to do something she loves!

Fun fact: Her favorite type of music is classic rock.

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Kylie Fountian

Kylie Fountian

Kylie Fountian

Tumbling/Cheer Coach, Summer Camp Director

Kylie is a passionate and driven coach who has been in the cheer world since 2006. She started cheering competitively at the Academy of Gymnastics and Dance in her hometown, until she made the cheer team at Hudson Middle School. She continued to make her school cheer team every year from 7th grade

Tumbling/Cheer Coach, Summer Camp Director

Kylie is a passionate and driven coach who has been in the cheer world since 2006. She started cheering competitively at the Academy of Gymnastics and Dance in her hometown, until she made the cheer team at Hudson Middle School. She continued to make her school cheer team every year from 7th grade to her senior year. She rejoined the competitive world in 2014 with Academy of Gymnastics and Dance, before moving to Cheer Extreme winning numerous NCA titles & bids with both gyms. After high school she made the 2017-2018 collegiate cheer team for the University of Mary-Hardin Baylor, before moving to Houston to finish college.

Fun fact: Kylie made it as a finalist in 2018 for the Houston Texans and loves to golf as much as she loves cheer.

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Riley Eskridge

Kylie Fountian

Kylie Fountian

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Riley is a junior at Memorial High School. She started doing gymnastics at Stars at the age of 8, before switching to tumbling lessons soon after. She has done two seasons of competitive cheer. She competed with her team, Lady Lace, at NCA this past year, and they ended up winning in the Level 3 division.Before coachin

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Riley is a junior at Memorial High School. She started doing gymnastics at Stars at the age of 8, before switching to tumbling lessons soon after. She has done two seasons of competitive cheer. She competed with her team, Lady Lace, at NCA this past year, and they ended up winning in the Level 3 division.Before coaching at HEC, Riley has coached one year. When Riley is not at cheer, she is hanging out with her friends and siblings or watching Netflix.

Fun Fact: Riley has a twin cousin, named Lance. She also has a dog named Maisie.

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Peri Finci

Kylie Fountian

Elleana Yarborough

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Peri is an incoming sophomore at Stratford High School. She is an honors student, served as an officer for the Freshman Girls club, and can’t wait to be a second year member of her school’s student counsel. After growing up with seven years of gymnastics experience, Peri found a love for dance and was one of the first 

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Peri is an incoming sophomore at Stratford High School. She is an honors student, served as an officer for the Freshman Girls club, and can’t wait to be a second year member of her school’s student counsel. After growing up with seven years of gymnastics experience, Peri found a love for dance and was one of the first freshman members of the Spartanaire drill team here at Stratford.

Fun fact: Peri has a little sister (Naz) who cheers at HEC!! She loves stalking Dana’s instagram to see her tumble and jump :)

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Elleana Yarborough

Elleana Yarborough

Elleana Yarborough

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Elleana is passionate about cheer and has been since  2009. She has done competition, high school, and college cheer. She has coached cheer since 2015 coaching competition and high school cheer. From 2018-2020, Elleana was an assistant coach for her college team, Mississippi College (Go Choctaws), after serving as chee

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Elleana is passionate about cheer and has been since  2009. She has done competition, high school, and college cheer. She has coached cheer since 2015 coaching competition and high school cheer. From 2018-2020, Elleana was an assistant coach for her college team, Mississippi College (Go Choctaws), after serving as cheer captain her senior year. Currently, Elleana coaches Middle School cheer and dance at a local private school! She loves working with all ages and loves anything and everything cheer!

Fun fact: Elleana’s little sister has Down Syndrome.

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Danielle Contreras

Elleana Yarborough

Danielle Contreras

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Dani has decided to get back into the cheer world after a few years away while joining the service industry. Started gymnastics and cheer at the age of 4 and continued till college. Also had training in ballet and tap dance. Three time Top All American at NCA summer camp, six time All American in total. NCA staff membe

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Dani has decided to get back into the cheer world after a few years away while joining the service industry. Started gymnastics and cheer at the age of 4 and continued till college. Also had training in ballet and tap dance. Three time Top All American at NCA summer camp, six time All American in total. NCA staff member from 2006-2008. Choreographed dances and routines for junior high and high school teams in south Texas where she’s originally from. This is her passion and is super excited to get back into this life. 

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Brynn LeGrand

Elleana Yarborough

Danielle Contreras

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Brynn is a junior at Memorial High school where she did two years of school cheer. Brynn has been doing gymnastics since the age of 3. Brynn went into competitive gymnastics for 7 years when she then switched to cheer for high school. Brynn has been taking lessons with HEC for more than two years now growing her love f

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Brynn is a junior at Memorial High school where she did two years of school cheer. Brynn has been doing gymnastics since the age of 3. Brynn went into competitive gymnastics for 7 years when she then switched to cheer for high school. Brynn has been taking lessons with HEC for more than two years now growing her love for cheer. Brynn recently stopped school cheer and now loves sharing her passion for cheer with others. When Brynn is not doing cheer you will find her drawing, painting, or hanging out with friends.

Fun fact: Brynn has three siblings, and one of them goes to HEC too!

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Bizza Venz

Bre Blaylock

Bre Blaylock

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Bizza is a junior at Stratford High school. She started competitive gymnastics at the age of 6 until age 10, ending that milestone of her life as a level 8 gymnast. She moved on to do Allstar cheerleading for the next 6 years advancing her skills up to level 6 stunting and tumbling. She attend D2 cheerleading summit tw

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Bizza is a junior at Stratford High school. She started competitive gymnastics at the age of 6 until age 10, ending that milestone of her life as a level 8 gymnast. She moved on to do Allstar cheerleading for the next 6 years advancing her skills up to level 6 stunting and tumbling. She attend D2 cheerleading summit twice and then competed two seasons with Woodlands Elite, attending D1 cheerleading summit twice as well. She’s made the High school Varsity cheer team at Stratford the last two years and is a two time All American. Bizza has been training with HEC year-round, and has found so much love for the program. She loves working with kids and making a positive atmosphere dedicated to progress. She is so excited to join the HEC crew!

Fun fact: Bizza’s real name is Isabella. The nickname Bizza was given by her nanny when she was 4 and has stuck ever since.


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Bre Blaylock

Bre Blaylock

Bre Blaylock

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Bre is a sophomore at Stratford High School where she is a cheerleader. This will be her second year on the team.  She started gymnastics at the age of 4.  Over the years, Bre has always loved to tumble.  She has been training with Houston Elite Cheer for over 7 years.  Bre keeps up her skills by taking private lessons

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Bre is a sophomore at Stratford High School where she is a cheerleader. This will be her second year on the team.  She started gymnastics at the age of 4.  Over the years, Bre has always loved to tumble.  She has been training with Houston Elite Cheer for over 7 years.  Bre keeps up her skills by taking private lessons several days a week.  She loves cheerleading and wants to share her talents and skills with others.

Fun fact:  Bre loves the beach.  When she is not at the gym, you will find her with her friends or playing soccer.

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Emily Keenan

Bre Blaylock

Jackie Walton

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Emily is a sophomore at Episcopal High School where she is on the varsity cheer team. Emily started gymnastics when she was 7 years old. Tumbling is her passion, and she started cheer as a freshman. She made the varsity team at Episcopal High School her sophomore year and has continued to keep her skills up by attendin

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Emily is a sophomore at Episcopal High School where she is on the varsity cheer team. Emily started gymnastics when she was 7 years old. Tumbling is her passion, and she started cheer as a freshman. She made the varsity team at Episcopal High School her sophomore year and has continued to keep her skills up by attending regular lessons at Houston Elite Cheer. Emily enjoys helping others learn new skills and knows how cheer can also teach life long lessons.

Fun fact: Emily loves baking and enjoys playing tennis in her free time.

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Jackie Walton

Catherine Daly

Jackie Walton

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Jackie is a sophomore honors student at Stratford High School and a second year Stratford cheerleader.  She started tumbling through compulsory gymnastics at age 6 then switched to competitive cheerleading.  She’s trains at Houston Elite Cheer year-round and loves her weekly classes with Dana to stay in tip top shape.


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Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Jackie is a sophomore honors student at Stratford High School and a second year Stratford cheerleader.  She started tumbling through compulsory gymnastics at age 6 then switched to competitive cheerleading.  She’s trains at Houston Elite Cheer year-round and loves her weekly classes with Dana to stay in tip top shape.


Fun Fact: She’s a Camp Ozark Osage tribe alumni and her perfect day is spending time with friends on the lake.

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Maddie Nguyen

Catherine Daly

Catherine Daly

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Maddie is a freshman at Stratford High School. She is looking forward to participating in track & field, joining many clubs, and trying out for cheer sophomore year. She started gymnastics at 5 years old and did it competitively for 3 years. She was able to win nationals, competing as a level 5, and ended training as a

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Maddie is a freshman at Stratford High School. She is looking forward to participating in track & field, joining many clubs, and trying out for cheer sophomore year. She started gymnastics at 5 years old and did it competitively for 3 years. She was able to win nationals, competing as a level 5, and ended training as a level 8. Maddie enjoys her lessons at HEC with Dana and Geris during the week and loves tumbling.  Fun Fact: Maddie has 20 cousins and most of her family lives in New Orleans.

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Catherine Daly

Catherine Daly

Catherine Daly

Tumbling/Cheer Coach

Catherine is a freshman at Memorial High School where she is a cheerleader. This is her first year on the JV team. She has done gymnastics since she was 5 years old. Throughout my many years she has grown to love cheer the most. She has been attending lessons at Houston Elite Cheer for 4 years. Catherine works on her s

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Catherine is a freshman at Memorial High School where she is a cheerleader. This is her first year on the JV team. She has done gymnastics since she was 5 years old. Throughout my many years she has grown to love cheer the most. She has been attending lessons at Houston Elite Cheer for 4 years. Catherine works on her skills by taking private lessons multiple days a week. She loves cheerleading and wants to share her talents and skills with others.

Fun Fact: Catherine loves the summertime. She also has a dog named Holland.


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Katelyn Culpepper

Katelyn Culpepper

Katelyn Culpepper

Tumbling/Cheer Coach



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Tamara Lanier

Katelyn Culpepper

Katelyn Culpepper

Tumbling/Cheer Coach



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