Captured NCAA Championships on the high bar and parallel bars in 1971 when he received the Nissen Award as the “Nation’s Outstanding Senior Gymnast”
Earned four All-America awards (vault, high bar, parallel bars and all-around) as a member of the Cyclones' 1971 NCAA Championship team, the first of three national titles won by ISU in the 1970s
Somewhat a late bloomer for Coach Ed Gagnier, Simmons emerged as a junior in 1970 by winning Big Eight titles on vault, high bar and the all-around
Competed internationally – Russian Invitational and Pan American Games in 1971 – after college