Brittany Leigh York (born April 16, 1989) is an American beauty queen who is best known for winning the title of Miss North Carolina USA 2011 and competing in the nationally televised Miss USA 2011 beauty pageant.
York was born and raised in Colonial Heights, Virginia to Richard York and Marcie York (Quillen), and moved to the coastal town of Wilmington, North Carolina when she was a teenager. York has three brothers and credits that to the reason she, "was such a big tomboy growing up". "I was very athletic and I always wanted to do boyish things... I liked playing in the mud", York says about her childhood. York played soccer and ran track at Colonial Heights Middle School and Eugene Ashley High School. York graduated from Eugene Ashley High School in Wilmington, North Carolina.
York was born and raised in Colonial Heights, Virginia to Richard York and Marcie York (Quillen), and moved to the coastal town of Wilmington, North Carolina when she was a teenager. York has three brothers and credits that to the reason she, "was such a big tomboy growing up". "I was very athletic and I always wanted to do boyish things... I liked playing in the mud", York says about her childhood. York played soccer and ran track at Colonial Heights Middle School and Eugene Ashley High School. York graduated from Eugene Ashley High School in Wilmington, North Carolina.
