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2024-25 Women's Basketball Roster

2/22 Kennedi Simmons

  • Height 5-8
  • Class Senior
  • Major MBA program
  • Highschool Southeast Guilford HS
  • Hometown Greensboro, NC
  • Instagram kennediisimmons

Biography

FMU:  First-year player at FMU....Surpassed 1000 career points in her next to last game (finished with 1005)....CSC Academic All-District Team 2024-25....Conference Carolinas Player of the Week (Dec. 16-22, 2024)....Played in all 30 games in 2024-25 with 22 starts....Conference Carolinas rankings: 6th in field goal percentage (46.7%), 9th in three-pointers made per game (1.7), 22nd in scoring (11.5 ppg), 23rd in rebounding (5.9 rpg), 24th in minutes played per game (30.9)....20 games scoring in double figures with a high of 22 at USC Aiken (12-19-24)....Transfer from NCAA Division II Winston-Salem State University, where she played three seasons....Has already earned her undergraduate degree.....FMU Swamp Fox Athletic-Academic Honor Roll 2024 (fall), 2025 (spring)....Conference Carolinas Presidential Honor Roll 2024 (fall), 2025 (spring).

WSSU:  Career totals: 657 points, 277 rebounds, and 92 assists....A 76.9 percent free throw shooter over three seasons....As a junior (2023-2024), played in 29 games (17 starts) and averaged 9.0 ppg on 43.0 percent field goal shooting (36.4% 3PG and 77.5% FT)....Appeared in 24 games as a sophomore (2022-2023) with 16 starts....Second on the team in scoring at  9.1 ppg and averaged  4.3 rpg, while shooting 46.6 percent from the floor....As a freshman (2021-22), played in 23 contests with 22 starts and averaged 7.7 ppg and 4.0 rpg....Graduated Summa Cum Laude....Pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc....Student Athlete Advisory Committee.

PERSONAL:
  • Born in Greensboro, NC
  • Graduate of Southeast Guilford High School, where she played for coach Rachel Clark
  • 2-time All-State
  • 4-time All-Conference and All-District honoree
  • 2-time All-Area pick
  • Named State Championship MVP (2019 and 2020)
  • Greensboro News and Record Player of the Year for both 2019 and 2020
  • National Honors Society
  • Nickname is Kenn
PERSONAL FAVORITES:
  • As a child what you wanted to be when you grew up:  Doctor
  • How you got your nickname:  Shorter and easier to say
  • Favorite Fictional Character:  SpongeBob
  • Favorite Athlete:  Lebron James
  • Favorite Sports Team: Los Angeles Lakers
  • Favorite Movie or TV Show: Stranger Things
  • Favorite Food:  Chicken alfredo
  • Favorite Vacation Spot:  Aruba
  • Favorite Musical Artist:  H.E.R
  • Favorite Thing About FMU:  How chill the campus is
  • Favorite Off-Court Activity:  Hanging with my friends
  • Goals for Upcoming Season:  Winning a championship
  • Why you first chose your sport:  Because I was good at it and it was fun
  • Biggest mental challenge in your sport:  Being too hard on myself for making mistakes
  • Brush With Greatness:  Won back-to-back state championships in high school; ambidextrous, Made the All-Academic team 3 years in a row

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