Kameron Simmonds
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File:FSU vs Wake ACC 2024 - 023 (cropped).jpg 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) | |||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Florida State Seminoles | ||
| Number | 19 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Richmond United | |||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2022–2023 | Tennessee Volunteers | 34 | (12) |
| 2024– | Florida State Seminoles | 21 | (5) |
| 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) | |||
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Kameron Necole Simmonds (born 6 December 2003) is a footballer who plays as a forward or defender for the Florida State Seminoles. Born in the United States, she represents Jamaica internationally. She won the 2025 national championship with the Seminoles.
Early life
[edit | edit source]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 | edit source]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 | edit source]In February 2024, Simmonds joined Richmond Ivy ahead of their inaugural USL W League season.[3]
International career
[edit | edit source]In the under-20 national team, Simmonds competed at the 2022 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship with the Jamaican U-20 team.[4] 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,[4] 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.[5] On 23 June 2023, she was included in the final Jamaica squad for the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup.[6] She made her World Cup debut in the second group game, coming on for Kayla McKenna in a 1–0 victory over Panama.[7]
Honors
[edit | edit source]Florida State Seminoles
References
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External links
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- Tennessee Volunteers profile
- 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