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Nursing major … Eight-time Oklahoma prep state champion who brought strong resume to OC’s 400-meter and 800-meter pool of runners … Plays a key role on relay teams, three of which set school records in 2018 … Subbed on OC’s cross country team during the 2017 postseason … Was a high school teammate of former OC runner Allegra Sloan … Has personal-best times of 2:16.39 in the 800 meters, 1:34.60 in the 600 yards and 57.64 seconds in the 400 meters …
2019: All-Great American Conference second-team honoree in the indoor 800 meters, outdoor 800 meters and indoor distance medley relay … Named to the Heartland Conference academic Honor Roll’s President’s List (both semesters) … Named to the Great American Conference Academic All-Conference List … Recipient of Division II Athletic Directors Association Academic Achievement Award … During indoor season, competed in five meets … Ran top 600-yard time of 1:34.60 in the Central Oklahoma Invitational in Norman … At the inaugural GAC Indoor Championships in Norman, earned All-GAC second-team honors with a fifth-place finish in the 200 meters (2:25.56) and as part of the fourth-place DMR team (13:01.52), running the 800-meter leg … During outdoor season, competed in five meets … Earned All-GAC honors in the 800 meters (2:20.13) at the GAC Outdoor Championships in Shawnee …
2017-18: Ran in one cross country race … Named to the Heartland Conference academic Honor Roll’s Commissioner’s List (both semesters) … Earned All-Great American Conference second-team honors in the 800 meters and 4x400 relay … In lone cross country race, covered the 6,000 meters in the NCAA Division II South Central Regional Championships in Canyon, Texas, in 25:36.8 … During indoor track season, ran in three meets … Ran the third (400-meter) leg on distance medley relay team that broke 27-year-old school record with time of 12:09.22 at the Indoor Gorilla Classic at Pittsburg, Kan. … Joined Kelsey Castillo, Leisa VanVooren and Layne Hammer on the record-setting unit … During outdoor track season, ran in seven meets … Placed second in the 800 meters at the Oklahoma Baptist Early Outdoor Invitational with a time of 2:24.34 … At Great American Conference Championships in Magnolia, Ark., earned all-conference honors in the 800 meters, placing fourth in 2:17.37, and the 4x400 relay, placing fourth in 3:55.40 with teammates VanVooren, Michaiah Chock and Allegra Sloan … Part of relay teams that broke school records on successive days at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa … Ran the leadoff leg on a 3,200-meter relay team (along with Chock, Castillo and VanVooren) that set new mark with time of 9:21.44 … The next day, joined Castillo, Rachel Meyers and VanVooren in breaking the program’s oldest record (which had stood since 1988) in the distance medley relay … The quartet posted a time of 12:30.39, with Simmons running the third (400-meter) leg … Posted career-best 800-meter time of 2:16.39 in the Oxy Invitational in Los Angeles …
2017: Earned All-Great American Conference second-team honors in the 4x400-meter relay … During indoor season, ran at 400 meters and 800 meters … Best 400 time was 1:01.64 in Pittsburg State’s Crimson and Gold Invitational … Ran a season-best 800 time of 2:23.03 in the Pittsburg State Invitational … During outdoor season, ran at 800 meters … In the GAC Championships in Searcy, Ark., ran season-best 800 time of 2:23.80, finishing 11th … Ran anchor leg on OC’s fourth-place team in the 4x400 relay, which finished in 4:04.31 …
Previous school: Attended Shawnee High School … As a senior in 2016, won her second straight 5A 800-meter title with time of 2:23.79 ... Along with Sloan, finished second in the 4x400-meter relay at the 5A meet in 4:06.59 … As a junior, took 800-meter title with time of 2:21.54, then followed that with a win at that distance in the annual Oklahoma Meet of Champions … Was a part of Shawnee’s 4x400-meter (4:02.86) and 4x800-meter (9:58.93) state-championship relay teams in 2015 … Took 5A titles in the 400 meters (57.64 seconds), 4x400 relay (4:01.18) and 4x800 relay (9:46.16) as a sophomore in 2014 and the 4x400 relay (3:59.86) in 2013 … Received honorable mention on
The Oklahoman’s Big All-City track and field teams for 800 meters in 2015 and 2016 and for 400 meters in 2014 … Also starred in basketball, earning honorable mention on
The Oklahoman’s All-State (2015) and Big All-City teams (2015 and 2016) in that sport.
