Long's father raced late models and she wanted to start racing karts when she was five years old; he allowed her to start racing when she was eight. She moved up into legends car later before turning to late models when she was twelve. In 2008, she won the Gulf Coast championship including races at Pensacola and Mobile, Alabama as well as the late model track championship at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola.

Long began her transition into NASCAR in 2009 by racing in a variety of series, including ASA Late Model Series, Pro Late Model, and ARCA. In 38 events, she had 27 top ten finishes, 17 top fives and five wins. Long ended 2009 by winning the pole position in the Snowball Derby, one of the few late model races in the off-season, which features drivers from around the United States.

She was expected to race in three Camping World races in 2010 but ended up racing in seven events. She raced in the Billy Ballew Motorsports truck in the middle of the season before the No. 15 team was shut down, and finished the year by racing in four events for her family-owned team, Panhandle Motorsports. With Ballew she qualified in all three races between 15th and 20th before finishing 17th, 34th and 20th. With Panhandle she had a season-high ninth place qualifying effort at Texas Motor Speedway with her best finish being a 20th-place result at the final race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Long returned to Pensacola's Five Flags Speedway for the 2010 Snowball Derby, and won the 43rd annual running of the event by holding off Landon Cassill. She became the second woman to win the race after Tammy Jo Kirk did it in 1994. She competed in the Camping World Truck Series in 2011, driving the family-owned No. 20 Toyota and running for Rookie-of-the-Year honors. Sponsorship issues forced her to run a partial season; her best finish was eleventh at Texas Motor Speedway. For 2012, she signed to drive the No. 70 Biomet/Foretravel Motorcoach Chevrolet, owned by ML Motorsports, in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. The team entered 21 races, finishing 20th in the standings. with former series champion David Green acting as a mentor.

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