Jenna Magruder started taking dance classes at the age of 3 in the Milwaukee area. After dancing with competitive studios throughout her childhood, she was a member of Mukwonago High School’s award-winning dance team from 1998-2002. Upon graduating, she worked for Hype Cheer & Dance, a company committed to providing dance competitions, instruction and choreography for teams of all ages, as well as classes for parks and recreation programs.

Jenna graduated with a BA in Dance from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee in 2006, where she trained in jazz, tap, ballet, modern, musical theatre, hip-hop, creative movement and African dance. While attending UWM, she also choreographed and danced professionally for the Milwaukee Admiral’s Ice Angels and the Milwaukee Brewers Diamond Dancers.

For the past 13 years, Jenna has taught and choreographed competitive hip hop, jazz, lyrical, musical theatre and pom routines for dance studios and all-star teams in Wisconsin. Her dancers and choreography have won numerous regional and national competitions along with many overall awards and choreography awards.

My name is Trish Cady. My daughter has been dancing with Sparklers Dance since 2014. She has loved every minute of it! I saw how much fun she was having so I offered my help to Mary. I started with organizing spirit wear and helping back stage. The Mini team was my main focus for the first year, I have moved my way up to organizing the Mini team, the Youth team, and the Junior team. I love keeping the teams organized! My background is in education. I have a B.S.E. degree and my major was PreK-6. I graduated from Whitewater in 2015. I have taught elementary and preschool.

Some of what I do on a daily basis is answer parent emails and texts. No question is too small. I am a parent as well and I like having lots of information. I want parentsto feel like they can get the information they need in a timely manner. I organize allof the forms and paperwork we require. I make sure everyone has turned in his or her waivers for each competition. I send reminder emails before each competition so you know the plan for the day. I make sure all the little details get done.

Kim has two daughters in the program and is instrumental in aiding the other coaches with the day-to-day work involved with the Sparklers Dance dance team.