The first time you read Cassidy Prosch's resume, you'd be forgiven for double-checking her age. A featured role in a shoot for the South Carolina Treasurer's Office. Campaigns for BuyBuy Baby. Regional brands. The kind of working-talent CV that takes most people decades to build. Cassidy is 10.
She's a fourth-grader at Endhaven Elementary and has been in front of a camera since she was an infant. "My brother started modeling when he was a baby, and I followed as a baby too," she says. Her brother Nicholas is now 12. Cassidy is the second of two Prosch kids to grow up in front of a lens — Nicholas was first; she followed when she was old enough.
The Prosch family — Cassidy, Nicholas, and parents Jay and Tricia — has called Ballantyne home since 2020. Both kids are represented by Directions USA, the Charlotte-based agency at 1230 West Morehead Street that has been booking Southeast talent since 1982.
The shoot Cassidy will tell you about first wasn't a regional clothing brand or a retail catalog. It was a day at Anderson University's library, in Anderson, S.C., for the South Carolina Treasurer's Office. "I had to act like a little kid in college," she says. She remembers reading oversized books, dancing down library aisles, and — her favorite part — sitting in on a study group with the college students themselves. "They were really nice."
It's a detail that captures what professional modeling actually looks like at her age. Not glamour. Just an unusual kind of school day.
If there's a thing about Ballantyne Country Club — and there are several — it's that the neighborhood has a way of producing kids with these kinds of resumes. Travel volleyball, regional theater, club golf, modeling agencies in Charlotte and beyond. The infrastructure is here, and so are the families who use it. What makes Cassidy interesting isn't that she models. It's how grounded she is about it.
The rest of Cassidy's week looks like the rest of her class's. She's a fourth-grader at Endhaven, where her favorite subjects are math and recess. She plays volleyball. She's a Taylor Swift fan. She writes songs — including one she's particularly proud of, with the message be yourself, love yourself and always stay yourself.
Her ambitions split cleanly down the middle. She wants to keep modeling, with an eye on commercials and possibly TV and film. She also wants to be a teacher when she grows up. And a mom. The two paths aren't in tension for her, which is maybe the kind of clarity you only have at 10.
"I've learned to be confident and to always be myself," she says.
Cassidy's professional photography is by Charlotte-based Blackprint Photography. She's the May 2026 Young Achiever cover for Stroll Ballantyne Country Club — the second Stroll-sourced neighbor profile we've run since the Hightowers opened the column in April. The neighbors keep getting more interesting.