Education
At the 2008 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, Simms finished in sixth place overall, just four inches short of making the United States of America Olympic team He finished the season ranked fifth nationally. In 2010 he finished 3rd at the United States of America Indoor Championships in the triple jump.
He finished fourth at the 2003 Pan American Games and eighth in long jump at the 2007 Pan American Games.
Career
He competed for Puerto Rico in 2007 after changing allegiance from the United States in May 2005, but changed back in 2008. That year, with a best jump of 56 foot 2 inches, he qualified for the World Championships and the Olympics with an "A" standard.
Simms met the “A” standard in 2004 also, and he participated in the 2003 and 2005 World Outdoor Championships and the 2004 and 2006 World Indoor Championships.
Over the course of his collegiate career, he was a seven-time All-American in the long and triple jumps, and in 2003 he was the Public Affairs Committee-10 record holder in the triple jump, Public Affairs Committee-10 Newcomer of the Year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association West Region Field Event Athlete of the Year and set the University of Southern California"s school record in the triple jump. In the long jump he has 8.02 metres.
He graduated from University of Southern California in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in multimedia technology and earned a Master of Art in liberal studies and a graduate certificate in global studies from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro in 2014. Currently, Simms serves as assistant tack and field coach specializing in the jumps/multi events at Cornell University.
Before Cornell Simms served as the Director of Operations and Assistant track coach at California State University-Los Angeles from September 2013.
At Cal State Los Angeles, he coached three jumpers to Division II national championships and All-West Region honors. Seven of his athletes were named to All-California Collegiate Athletic Association teams. At University of Idaho, where he was an assistant coach working with the Vandal jumps program in 2013.
He coached one All-American in the pole vault at the 2013 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division 1 championships in Eugene with a leap of 5.50m (18"1)- in his one year at Idaho, two student-athletes were National Collegiate Athletic Association regional qualifiers in the Pole Vault.
Simms has previous collegiate coaching stops at Davidson College from 2008-2011, where he worked with sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers, and at Utica College in 2011, where he coached the school’s jumpers to five school records, two conference titles and two Eastern College Athletic Conference bids. Simms is an International Association of Athletics Federations Level 4 Jumps coach and holds a United States of America Track & Field Level I coaching certificate.