As a 15-year-old, Brown represent the United States at the
1988 Winter Olympics when curling was a demonstration event. Brown played
third on the team,
skipped by
Lisa Schoeneberg, and the team finished fifth. Brown then had a successful junior career, representing the United States at six (
1988,
1989,
1991,
1992,
1993,
1994)
World Junior Curling Championships, winning silver in 1992 and 1994 and a bronze in 1993. Brown has participated in sixteen different
United States National Championships, beginning with a second-place finish in 1991. In 1995 she won her first national championships and would go on to compete in the
1995 Brandon World Championships where her team placed fifth with a 4–5 record. Her second trip to the world championships proved more successful as her team won the silver medal behind Team Canada in
1996. She picked up a second World Championship silver medal in
1999 as the third for
Patti Lank's team. Brown competed at the
2010 US Olympic Trials, finishing fourth in the
round robin portion of the tournament. In the
3 vs. 4 playoff she faced her former skip Patti Lank, but lost. Upon their win at the
2013 United States Women's Curling Championship, Brown and her team were qualified to participate at the
2014 United States Olympic Curling Trials. They finished first in the round robin standings and defeated
Allison Pottinger in a best-of-three series final to clinch the berth to the Olympics. At the
2014 Winter Olympics, she led her American team to a 10th-place finish, with a 1–8 record. Brown's team won the
United States Women's Curling Championship in back-to-back years in 2015 and 2016. ==Personal life==