Bio

One of the most respected and tenacious defenders in Chapman women’s soccer history, Simmons was named to the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) All-Far West Region team all four years of her career. Also a star in the classroom as a movement/exercise science major, she earned Academic All-District honors three times and was named an Academic All-American in 1998 by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Simmons was a team captain on Chapman’s first women’s soccer team to make the NCAA playoffs in 1999, but was limited to just one game that season due to a knee injury – the second of her career. She came back from the injury in 2000 to lead the Panthers to their first-ever “Sweet 16” postseason appearance and was again selected All-Region.