Cassidy Vermeer, head dance team coach, grew up in Fort Dodge, Iowa where she graduated from Fort Dodge Senior High in 2007. After high school, Vermeer made the smart decision to stay in town and finish her AA degree at Iowa Central Community College for one year. She then went on and transferred to receive a bachelor’s degree in Family Services from the University of Northern Iowa in May of 2010.

At both Iowa Central and UNI, Vermeer was a member of their collegiate dance teams. She has attended many state competitions and national competitions where awards were won such as national champion in the Pom Division for UNI in 2010.

Vermeer began her dance coaching career at Iowa Central in 2011 and has remained a part of the dance program coaching for almost 10 years. Along with coaching the Iowa Central Dance Team, she has also choreographed for many local surrounding high school dance teams.

The Iowa Central Dance Team has won all three state titles for the Community College Divisions at the ISDTA competition for the last two years in 2019 and 2020. Only one other time, in 2017, has that happened. At the national level, Iowa Central Dance Team is currently ranked third in the Junior College Division. They compete at the NDA Collegiate Dance Nationals in Daytona Beach, Florida every April.

In 2021, Iowa Central won the Hip Hop division at NDA Collegiate Dance Championships, scoring the first national title in program history. They also finished third in the Team Performance division at nationals that year. 

Vermeer lives in Humboldt with her husband Tyler and her two sons, Tucker, who is eight years old, and Weston, who is six years old.