Brittany Kasha began dancing lessons at age 5. She started as many young girls by experimenting with ballet, tap and jazz. She disliked going to classes and shed quite a few tears and in short decided dancing was not for her. Luckily she gave dancing one more try, but this time took up Highland dance with with David Teague. After struggling at first to find the beat, she finally caught on and it has been her passion ever since.

January 1989 was Brittany's first competition in Glendora, California, as a Beginner. She was not exactly successful at first, but she continued pursuit in spite of that. After several more competitive ventures that spring, with no real sign of improvement, she and her parents were almost ready to give up. One last effort proved to be a significant boost to her dance career when in June of 1989 she changed teachers to Linda Armstrong.

With Linda's guidance, just a few months later in September at the games in Santa Rosa, California, Brittany won her first medal! It took a LOT of hard work, but she took a 4th place in the Highland Fling. Looking back on it now, she sees the humor in how excited she was about a 4th place - even having the medal engraved! - but it was just a start and now she was hooked.

After 2 years in the Beginner class, Brittany moved to the Novice class. Linda continued to help her improve and understand the music and dances. In October of 1991, she won an aggregate trophy for the very first time at the last competition of that year and her last as a Novice. Brittany then moved to Intermediate class and was continually more successful at each competition. Brittany moved to the Premier class - the professional level of dance - at age 10. Her first competition in this top class was in Portland, Oregon. She was competing against very talented and experienced dancers but managed to take a 5th and a 6th placing. This began more competitive travelling for Brittany and she was continually successful with each event. She realized she was being "groomed" for the United States Championships and was working hard to steadily improve.

A big year for Brittany was 1994. In May she competed for the first time in the Western Regional Championships, hoping to earn a spot at the United States Inter-Regional (USIR) Championships that year in New York. Her class was full of stiff competition and she was the least experienced, but she ended the day ranked 3rd in the entire Western Region and a spot at USIR! Summer brought another significant challenge - her teacher and parents made the decision that Brittany was ready for international competition! She flew to Scotland for 4 weeks and competed at various local and major games. One of the highlights of this trip was being able to observe some of the best and most recognized dancers including a few World Champions. From there, she flew directly back to New York and competed in the USIR Championships. She made it through every dance without any mistakes, but was not able to earn any prizes on her first try at such a major event.

Learning from her prior experiences, she qualified for the USIR event again in 1995 being held in San Diego. Again she was unsuccessful in coming away with any prizes, but she stayed positive. Brittany began flying to Canada and even managed to become the Runner-Up to the Inter-Provincial Championship! Then in September of that year she went to the games at Pleasanton, California - the Western Regional Championship - and won everything. It was her first major title!

Brittany returned to the USIR Championships in 1996, this time in Houston, Texas, and was ranked 7th in the entire United States. Over the following years, she continued to travel throughout North America and made several more trips to Scotland. Three more Championship titles were hers keeping her in the top of the Western Region and a well-recognized dancer in North America.

Teaching dance became of interest to Brittany while in high school. She was involved in an educational dance group that performed several times each week at schools throughout Southern California. She prepared for and took the necessary teacher examinations and at just 16 years old, she became an Associate Teacher. This is the youngest age allowable for a dancer to even take this exam and she passed with Honors! A short two years later at age 18 she passed her Teaching Exam with Honors, again at the youngest age allowable for this particular exam. She has since gone on to teach and tutor young dancers throughout Southern California while remaining somewhat active in competition herself.