Coach Rodney Heath starts his 7th season as Head Coach for the Lakota East Boys & Girls Track & Field team. Coach Heath has over twenty (20) years of track and field experience and has produced several athletes who have become individual GMC, District, Regional and State champions. During his career, he has coached multiple athletes who have gone on to compete as student-athletes in college. During his six years with Lakota East, Coach Heath earned the GMC Coach of the Year award twice. He has won one (1) OATCCC girls indoor state championship (2019), four (4) girls team district championships (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021), one (1) girls team regional championship (2019), and one (1) girls team state championship (2019). During the 2019 outdoor season, Coach Heath assembled a girls 4x100m relay team of Dawn Hilton, Kaylyn Heath, Azariyah Bryant, and Serena Clark who went on to break the OHSAA State record across all divisions and are the current state record holders in this relay (45.82).  

 Coach Heath is married to Kimberly. They have three children: Autumn (Purdue University alum), Kaylyn (University of Kentucky) and Rodney Jr. (University of Kentucky). All three of their children graduated from Lakota East and have won individual state champion titles. Autumn is a member of Purdue's current school record-holding women's 4x100m relay team. Kaylyn and Rodney Jr. are currently student-athletes in college. 

Coach Burkhardt is starting his 4th year as the Boys Lacrosse Head Coach for Lakota East High School and his 15th overall as a lacrosse coach. During his three years at Lakota East, Coach Burkhardt has guided the program to a 17-19 record, with the 2020 season canceled due to Covid.  Coach Burkhardt is a graduate Fairfield High School and Miami University. He is married to Kimberly Burkhardt and has three children, Tristian, Keira, and Emeline.

Coach Jock Roeder started coaching at East after the 2023 season.  Prior to that he served as the offensive coordinator, goalkeeping, and draw control coach for the girls’ program at Milford High School.  He has been providing individual and group instruction on all parts of the game for the since 2016, and holds a USA Lacrosse Platinum/Level 3 certification in the women’s game. 

Stacey Cooke been teaching at Lakota since 1997 when the Freshman School started at the old Lakota High School.

Played high school tennis in California back in the 1980’s and worked briefly at a Tennis Club in Huntington Beach called Seacliff.

Picked Tennis back up in in 2020 when my daughter started playing for Kings Girls Tennis and am A member of Harper’s Tennis Club.

Coached Girls and Boys Lacrosse for several years prior to picking up tennis in 2020.

Coach Kuhlman is starting his 6th year as the Boys' Volleyball Head Coach at Lakota East High School and his 8th overall as a coach in the program. Kuhlman has also served as the girls’ varsity volleyball assistant coach at Milford High School for 4 years and coached club volleyball at Ohio Premier for 4 years as well. He is a graduate of Lakota East High School and was a 4-year varsity setter for the boys' volleyball program from 2011-2015. Kuhlman played collegiate club volleyball at Bowling Green State University where he graduated and earned his bachelors in math education. He recently earned his master's in educational administration from Xavier University. Kuhlman is a math teacher at Lakota East High School.