Coach Simmons has 3 years of coaching experience. He coached the local boys basketball team for 3 years while stationed overseas in Japan. Coach Simmons has also played for a local Japanese team for 2 years in Japan, which would be like the NBA D-League here in the states. Coach Simmons has also had try outs for the Japan basketball league and years ago for the Canadian Basketball league. Coach Simmons walked onto Bethune-Cookman (located in Daytona Beach, Fl.) men's basketball team when he was a freshman in college, the only player to walk on that year. After his year at Bethune Cookman, he transferred over to Morris Brown college where he was set to play there before the school lost their accreditation. Coach Simmons has been playing basketball for over 20 years and has tons of experience. By walking onto a Division 1 school he knows the work ethic needed to play at the college level.