Meet The Instructors

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Rebekah Strahan is the first native Oklahoman to receive her TCRG certification in 2006. She was a championship level dancer, and has over 15 years of teaching experience with McTeggart Irish Dancers.

Her goal is to help each individual dancer reach their own personal goals with their dancing.  Whether it be competition, performing, or just for creative fun and exercise.  Her desire is not just create a dancer but even more than that to build qualities such as confidence, perseverance, and self awareness. Every dancer has their own individual gifts, and it’s her greatest joy as a teacher to help them see those gifts in themselves. Teaching has been her true passion from a young age, and she loves being apart of the McTeggart Irish Dance school and seeing what started as a very small group of just a few dancers in the state, has become something that's reaching so many

Betty McCuistian (formerly Thompson) has been an accredited TCRG  and a member of IDTANA and the Southern Region since 2014. Betty began  Irish dancing at the age of 11 and began competing at age 12 under the  direction of Maureen McTeggart Hall, ADCRG. She became an open  championship dancer under the instruction of Mrs. Hall and TCRG Rebekah  Strahan, competing and medaling in the Southern Regional Oireachtas each year she competed including a 2nd place finish.  Betty also competed at the North American Champion

Olivia Cavazos started dancing in 2003  at the age of eight. She qualified for worlds at her first Oireachtas in  2005 and competed competitively for seven years attending her last  Oireachtas in 2012 retiring after qualifying for Worlds for the sixth time.  She was blessed to compete on the World and National stages.  Olivia  competed on the Miss Oklahoma stage showcasing her Irish Dancing talent  and won Preliminary Talent at Miss Oklahoma 2014, dancing to Lord of  the Dance Breakout.  She was happy to represent McTeggart Oklahoma on stage for three years, winning the top non-finalist talent award all three years.  She retired from competing in  2013 after graduating high school and beginning her college education  at the University of Central Oklahoma.  She graduated with a B.S. degree in Biology – Biomedical Sciences with a minor in Leadership.  She attended the University of Oklahoma College of Dentistry to pursue her career of being a dentist, and recently obtained her Doctor of Dental Surgery.  She could not stay away any longer from her love of dance and McTeggart.  She is taking her grade exams so she can take her next steps to obtaining her TCRG.   She is extremely happy to work with students to help bring out their confidence and their best abilities.