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Jersey Number 22
Amalia Simmons
- Height:
- 6-0
- Class:
- Graduate Student
- High School:
- Moon Area
- Hometown:
- Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Previous School (Michigan)
2025 (Redshirt Junior): Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors ... Appeared in 11 matches, playing 30 sets ... Averaged 2.27 kills per set and finished with 68 kills ... Added six assists, two service aces, 53 digs and nine blocks ... Recorded three matches with double-digit kills, including a season-high 13 kills twice ... Posted a double-double with 13 kills and 11 digs while hitting .344 against UCLA on Nov. 26 ... Finished with 10 kills, three blocks and one ace in a win over Marshall on Sept. 6 ... Hit .400 with nine kills in a win over Eastern Michigan on Sept. 5 ... Recorded her first career double-double with 13 kills and 10 digs in a win over Cincinnati on Aug. 31.
2024 (Redshirt Sophomore): Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors ... Appeared in 10 matches, playing 26 sets with four starts ... Averaged 1.81 kills per set and totaled 47 kills while hitting .156 ... Added 11 blocks ... Recorded a season-high 13 kills while hitting .320 with three blocks in a sweep of Maryland on Nov. 21 ... Finished with 11 kills in a win over Northwestern on Nov. 29 ... Tallied five kills on eight attacks without an error against North Carolina on Sept. 20.
2023 (Redshirt Freshman): Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors ... Appeared in 20 matches, playing 61 sets ... Finished the season with 119 kills, 31 digs and 21 blocks ... Set a career high with 20 kills against Colorado State on Sept. 2 ... Recorded 12 kills and a career-high six blocks against Duke on Sept. 9 ... Posted 10 kills in a win over North Carolina on Sept. 8 ... Matched a career high with four blocks against Bowling Green on Sept. 17.
2022 (Freshman): Redshirted.
HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year letter winner at Moon Area High School ... Served as team captain as a junior and senior ... Three-time Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association All-State selection ... First Team BIG 56 All-Section selection ... Finished as Moon Area High School's all-time career kills leader ... Named an All-State All-Star ... Earned AVCA Phenom List recognition ... Reached 1,000 career kills in 2021 ... Named a nominee for the 2021 Pennsylvania Gatorade Player of the Year award ... Helped lead Moon Area to its first section title in 13 years and a conference semifinal appearance ... Named to the PrepVolleyball Top 150 list.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Tawanna and Sean Simmons ... Father, Sean, competed in track and field at Seton Hall from 1988-92 ... Brother, Jarrod, played basketball at the University of Pennsylvania from 2017-21 and Hofstra from 2021-22 ... Sister, Sanaea, played volleyball at Holy Cross ... Graduated with a Masters of Arts in biopsychology, cognition and neuroscience from the University of Michigan.
2025 (Redshirt Junior): Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors ... Appeared in 11 matches, playing 30 sets ... Averaged 2.27 kills per set and finished with 68 kills ... Added six assists, two service aces, 53 digs and nine blocks ... Recorded three matches with double-digit kills, including a season-high 13 kills twice ... Posted a double-double with 13 kills and 11 digs while hitting .344 against UCLA on Nov. 26 ... Finished with 10 kills, three blocks and one ace in a win over Marshall on Sept. 6 ... Hit .400 with nine kills in a win over Eastern Michigan on Sept. 5 ... Recorded her first career double-double with 13 kills and 10 digs in a win over Cincinnati on Aug. 31.
2024 (Redshirt Sophomore): Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors ... Appeared in 10 matches, playing 26 sets with four starts ... Averaged 1.81 kills per set and totaled 47 kills while hitting .156 ... Added 11 blocks ... Recorded a season-high 13 kills while hitting .320 with three blocks in a sweep of Maryland on Nov. 21 ... Finished with 11 kills in a win over Northwestern on Nov. 29 ... Tallied five kills on eight attacks without an error against North Carolina on Sept. 20.
2023 (Redshirt Freshman): Earned Academic All-Big Ten honors ... Appeared in 20 matches, playing 61 sets ... Finished the season with 119 kills, 31 digs and 21 blocks ... Set a career high with 20 kills against Colorado State on Sept. 2 ... Recorded 12 kills and a career-high six blocks against Duke on Sept. 9 ... Posted 10 kills in a win over North Carolina on Sept. 8 ... Matched a career high with four blocks against Bowling Green on Sept. 17.
2022 (Freshman): Redshirted.
HIGH SCHOOL: Four-year letter winner at Moon Area High School ... Served as team captain as a junior and senior ... Three-time Pennsylvania Volleyball Coaches Association All-State selection ... First Team BIG 56 All-Section selection ... Finished as Moon Area High School's all-time career kills leader ... Named an All-State All-Star ... Earned AVCA Phenom List recognition ... Reached 1,000 career kills in 2021 ... Named a nominee for the 2021 Pennsylvania Gatorade Player of the Year award ... Helped lead Moon Area to its first section title in 13 years and a conference semifinal appearance ... Named to the PrepVolleyball Top 150 list.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Tawanna and Sean Simmons ... Father, Sean, competed in track and field at Seton Hall from 1988-92 ... Brother, Jarrod, played basketball at the University of Pennsylvania from 2017-21 and Hofstra from 2021-22 ... Sister, Sanaea, played volleyball at Holy Cross ... Graduated with a Masters of Arts in biopsychology, cognition and neuroscience from the University of Michigan.
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