Kameron Simmonds
.jpg?lang=en) Simmonds with Florida State in 2024 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kameron Necole Simmonds | ||
| Date of birth | 6 December 2003 | ||
| Place of birth | Midlothian, Virginia, U.S. | ||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position(s) | |||
| Youth career | |||
| Richmond United | |||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022–2023 | Tennessee Volunteers | 34 | (12) |
| 2024–2025 | Florida State Seminoles | 42 | (6) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2024 | Richmond Ivy | 6 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2022 | Jamaica U20 | 4 | (2) |
| 2022– | Jamaica | 4 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 12 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 00:20, 5 October 2022 (UTC) | |||
Kameron Necole Simmonds (born 6 December 2003) is a footballer who plays as a forward or defender. Born in the United States, she plays for the Jamaica national team. She played college soccer for the Tennessee Volunteers and the Florida State Seminoles, winning the 2025 national championship with the Seminoles.
Early life
[edit]Kameron Necole Simmonds was born on 6 December 2003 in Virginia[1] to Necole and Greg Simmonds. She has three younger brothers. Despite her father being a former footballer, Simmonds only took up the sport when she was unable to continue training in gymnastics after an injury at the age of 11; beginning football the next year, she trained with her father.[2]
College career
[edit]Simmonds played for Richmond United until the summer of 2022 when she began her college soccer career at the University of Tennessee for the Tennessee Volunteers.[1] She chose to join Tennessee due to her parents believing in its values; due to encouragement from Jamaica teammate Giselle Washington, who already attended the university; and being inspired by Jamaica legend and former Volunteer Khadija Shaw.[2]
As a true freshman, she made two top 100 best freshman lists, having scored four goals in sixteen appearances. Playing as a substitute, the college highlighted her productivity in her limited minutes, often with multiple shots on goal per game.[1]
Club career
[edit]In February 2024, Simmonds joined Richmond Ivy ahead of their inaugural USL W League season.[3]
Simmons joined the NWSL's Utah Royals as a non-roster invitee in the 2026 preseason.[4]
International career
[edit]In the under-20 national team, Simmonds competed at the 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship with the Jamaican U-20 team.[5] She scored two goals at the tournament, watched by her family.[2]
When she made her senior debut on 3 September 2022, in a 0–1 friendly loss to South Korea,[5] she became the third generation of her family to represent Jamaica in senior international football after her father, Greg, and grandfather, Patrick.[2]
Simmonds then competed at the 2023 Cup of Nations, where her team finished in fourth place.[6] On 23 June 2023, she was included in the final Jamaica squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.[7] She made her World Cup debut in the second group game, coming on for Kayla McKenna in a 1–0 victory over Panama.[8]
Honors
[edit]Florida State Seminoles
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Kameron Simmonds - Soccer". University of Tennessee Athletics. Archived from the original on 1 August 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ a b c d "Why Tennessee soccer players' Jamaican national team invites are special". Knoxville News Sentinel. Archived from the original on 30 July 2023. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
- ^ McGinley, Mannion. "Jamaican National Team Forward, Florida State Seminole Kameron Simmonds Commits to Play for W League RVA". RichmondKickers.com. Richmond Kickers. Retrieved 12 May 2025.
- ^ "Utah Royals FC Announces 2026 Preseason Roster and Schedule". Utah Royals. 13 January 2026. Retrieved 13 January 2026.
- ^ a b "Korea Republic vs. Jamaica - 3 September 2022 - Soccerway". Archived from the original on 29 July 2023. Retrieved 29 July 2023.
- ^ "WATCH: CommBank Matildas reigning Cup of Nations winners". footballaustralia.com.au. 22 February 2023. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
- ^ "Reggae Girlz squad named for FIFA Women's World Cup". 23 June 2023. Archived from the original on 24 June 2023. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
- ^ "Panama vs. Jamaica - 29 July 2023 - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Archived from the original on 30 July 2023. Retrieved 30 July 2023.
External links
[edit]
- Kameron Simmonds at Soccerway.com
- Kameron Simmonds at kicker (in German)
- Tennessee Volunteers profile
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- 2003 births
- Living people
- American women's soccer players
- Women's association football forwards
- Women's association football defenders
- Jamaican women's footballers
- 21st-century Jamaican sportswomen
- Jamaica women's international footballers
- 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Tennessee Lady Volunteers soccer players
- Soccer players from Virginia
- People from Chesterfield County, Virginia
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- Florida State Seminoles women's soccer players
- USL W League players