Allen Simms

Allen Simms
Medal record

Men's Athletics
Competitor for the Puerto Rico
NACAC Championships
Silver	2007 San Salvador	triple jump
CAC Championships
Silver	2005 Nassau	triple jump

Allen Simms in Stavanger 2007.

Allen Simms (born 26 July 1982) is an American triple jumper.

At the 2008 Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon, Simms finished in sixth place overall, just four inches short of making the USA Olympic team. He finished the season ranked fifth nationally. In 2010 he finished 3rd at the USA Indoor Championships in the triple jump.

Biography

He competed for Puerto Rico in 2007 after changing allegiance from the United States in May 2005,^[1] but changed back in 2008.^[2] In 2007, he was national champion in the triple jump and ranked 15th in the world. That year, with a best jump of 56 ft. 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. In 2004, he was the USA Indoor Champion in the triple jump. He finished fourth at the 2003 Pan American Games and eighth in long jump at the 2007 Pan American Games.^[3]

As a collegian, he was the NCAA runner-up at the Outdoor championships in 2005 in the triple jump and the individual champion at the NCAA Indoor Championships in 2003. 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 PAC-10 record holder in the triple jump, PAC-10 Newcomer of the Year, the NCAA West Region Field Event Athlete of the Year and set the University of Southern California's school record in the triple jump.^[4]

His personal best jump is 17.17 metres, achieved in April 2003 in Los Angeles. He has 17.26 metres on the indoor track, achieved in March 2003 in Fayetteville. In the long jump he has 8.02 metres.

Coaching

Currently, Simms serves as Director of Operations and Assistant track coach at California State University-Los Angeles from Sept 2013. 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 NCAA Division 1 championships in Eugene with a leap of 5.50m (18'1)- in his one year at Idaho, two student-athletes were NCAA regional qualifiers in the Pole Vault. His student-athletes also won a Western Athletic Conference championship, earned six All-WAC awards and set two school records. Simms has previous collegiate coaching stops at Davidson College from 2008–11, 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.^[5]

Simms holds an International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Level III Jumps coaching certification and a USA Track & Field Level I coaching certification.^[6]

References

Allen Simms profile at IAAF