Brittany Powell entered her first season as the head coach of the Hiram Terriers Cheer & STUNT program in 2021-22, having joined the Terriers from Laurel Senior High School in New Castle, Pennsylvania, where she served as the assistant varsity cheer coach for the past two and a half years.

Over two seasons at Laurel Senior, Powell helped the Spartans to a first-place finish and district title at the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League (WPIAL) district championships, the first district title in school history, a seventh-place finish at the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) state championships and a sixth-place finish at the National High School Cheerleading Championships in Orlando, Florida, in 2020.

Powell began her coaching career as the junior high cheer coach at Laurel Junior High School in New Castle, spending two seasons with the Spartans before moving up to the high school level.

Education

• M.A., Secondary Education, Slippery Rock University
• B.A., Political Science and Spanish, University of North Carolina at Wilmington