Meet Our Team

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VETERINARIAN

Dr. Stevens grew up near Rapid City, SD. She received a Bachelor of Science in Animal Science from South Dakota State University in 1991, and then her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1995 from the University of Minnesota. After working for a short time with Black Hills area veterinarians, she started working full-time in Edgemont. A year later, she founded Cheyenne River Animal Hospital in its current location. Dr. Stevens attended animal chiropractor school in Wellsville, KS, and was certified by the International Veterinary Chiropractic Association in 2008. 

Dr. Stevens married Kerry Barker in 2002. They have a daughter currently attending South Dakota State University. Dr. Stevens loves working with cattle, horses, dogs, and cats. In her free time, Stephanie enjoys spending time with family, working in their yard and garden, horseback riding, reading, and running.  

 VETERINARIAN 

Dr. Erica Koller grew up right here in Edgemont, SD, went to South Dakota State University in Brookings and attended veterinary school at Iowa State University. She is very comfortable in small animal surgery and bovine obstetrics. Since she is the daughter of a local rancher, she understands importance of animal well being and herd health in this area. She has also spent some time traveling to other parts of the United States and the world through veterinary medicine. She has a love of teaching and molding the next generation. She has developed an externship program for veterinary students to experience a rural veterinary clinic. Her family, including husband Dustin Ross, son Tucker and daughter Harper, are very active in the community. She loves to share her passion for rural values and traditions through modern technologies.  

 VETERINARIAN 

Dr. Annamarie Eick is from San Diego, California. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Animal Science and Management from the University of California, Davis in 2012 and her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from the University of Minnesota in 2020. Throughout school she focused on food animal medicine, but she is also enthusiastic about working with horses and companion animals. Her passion for cattle and horses began while spending time on her uncle's ranch as a child and only continued to grow while working on feedlots, ranches and equine breeding farms during college as well as a thoroughbred/cattle farm in Kentucky and an equine hospital after graduation. Dr. Eick hopes to collaborate with ranchers to maximize herd health and productivity as well as to provide exceptional care for her equine and companion animal patients. Her husband, Tim, arranged a vacation to the Black Hills a few years ago and they both fell in love with the area. In her free time, Dr. Eick enjoys running, hiking, and spending time with her pets - a horse, Ty, and a lab mix, Winchester.

VETERINARIAN

Lacy Stevens grew up on a cow/ calf ranch outside of Edgemont, SD. She graduated from Edgemont High School in 2012 and continued her education at Black Hills State University where she received her Biology degree in fall 2016. She went on to receive her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine from Iowa State University in the spring of 2021. She has come full circle and is back at Cheyenne River Animal Hospital, not as a vet tech this time but as a veterinarian.  She enjoys being outside riding horses, working cattle with her family, and doing yard work. 

RECEPTIONIST

Edna was born and raised in the Douglas, WY area. She and her brother grew up on ranches with a cowboy/cowman foreman father and a teacher mother. After marrying Maurice, her husband of 43 years, they ranched in WY and in 1981, moved to the Edgemont area. They moved into the city of Edgemont in 1998, staring their own business, Neville Repair. 

They have two children, Leslie (and her puppies) of Phoenix, AZ and Justin and daughters of Edgemont. Their two graddaughters are Bridget and Addison. They have two grand-puppies in Phoenix: Callie, an elderly and extremely funny Springer Spaniel, and Isacc, a young and very loving Boxer. Bridget, Addie, Grandma and Papa have a family Cockapoo dog named Toro that Aunt Leslie rescued and gave to them as a family pet.  

RECEPTIONIST

Sara is originally from Ranchester, Wyoming. Where she grew up on a ranch until she was 7 years old. Her family then moved to town and lived in the same house until she graduated from High School at Tongue River.  She then went to college at Sheridan College for a couple years and graduated with an Associate in Science degree. She then went to University of Wyoming and completed Animal and Veterinary Science specifically in Ruminant Nutrition. In college she did a semester at University of Hawaii Hilo. She enjoys traveling and reading a good book. 

VETERINARY ASSISTANT  

Abby grew up in Lake Benton MN, and has always loved and been around horses and animals. She grew up doing 4H and FFA and did rodeo in high school. After graduating high school in Pipestone MN, she moved to Watertown where she went to Lake Area Tech for Livestock Production and Management. She is A.I. Certified through Select Sires. In her free time she loves to ride horses, reading, hanging out with her dogs and chickens, and helping on the ranch. 

VETERINARY ASSISTANT

Sydney was born in Newfoundland, Canada where her parents were stationed as members of the Navy. Shortly after, they moved to Wiggins, MS where they had a hobby farm to include goats, chickens, and a horse named Scottie. Sydney spent much of her childhood helping with neighboring farm chores and caring for animals as well as being homeschooled. During high school, her father’s job brought them to Vicenza, Italy where she continued and completed her homeschooling. In 2013 she moved to South Dakota and has no plans of ever leaving. After many different adventures in life, including EMT, secretary, substitute teaching, and dispatch, Sydney found herself being called back to her childhood passion, working with animals. She has entered an apprenticeship program with CRAH and has now begun her career and life’s work. She loves to learn new things and help those in need. She is also a Deputy Coroner for the county of Fall River as well as a reserve Police Officer for Hot Springs PD. Sydney and her husband, Isnalawica Belt (Chief Deputy at Fall River SO), share five children who they homeschool and love to take to new places. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with family, volunteering at her church, and working with her own animals.