YEAR: Fifth in 2025-26
PREVIOUS COLLEGE: Lees-McRae '11

AT ASHLAND UNIVERSITY

• Simko led the Eagles to many firsts in 2025 - the program's first Great Midwest Athletic Conference regular-season and conference championships, as well as its first game in the NCAA Division II postseason.
• She was named 2025 Great Midwest Coach of the Year, and guided AU to a 14-6 record overall and a perfect 8-0 regular-season slate in the conference.
• The 2024 season found Simko guiding Ashland to a 11-8 overall record and 5-2 mark in the Great Midwest. She was named conference co-Coach of the Year, and led the Eagles to their first conference tournament victory.
• Simko's second season as head coach saw the program's first .500 season (9-9) and first better-than-.500 season in conference play (5-3). The Eagles made the Great Midwest Tournament for the second year in a row.
• In her first season leading the program, Simko led Ashland to a 6-11 overall record, a 5-5 mark in the Great Midwest, and the Great Midwest Tournament in the first season in the league.

BEFORE ASHLAND UNIVERSITY

• Simko came to Ashland with seven years of head coaching experience having spent the previous two seasons as the women’s lacrosse head coach at fellow G-MAC member Ursuline College. She was named the 2021 G-MAC Coach of the Year.
• Prior to her time at Ursuline, Simko was the head coach for three seasons at the University of Findlay where she guided the Oilers to the 2019 G-MAC championship. In total, Simko led the Oilers to 32 wins in three seasons, including a 15-4 mark in 2018.
• She coached 13 All-G-MAC selections while at Findlay and put four players on the all-region teams.
• Simko also has head coaching experience at the University of Dallas and Cornell College.
• She got her start in collegiate coaching as a graduate assistant at Lake Erie College, where she earned her master’s in business administration.

PERSONAL

• Simko is a 2011 graduate of Lees-McRae (N.C.) College, where she played lacrosse for four years.

SIMKO YEAR-BY-YEAR
Year                 School                   Record       Pct.
2025                 Ashland                 14-6           .700
2024                 Ashland                 11-8           .579
2023                 Ashland                 9-9             .500
2022                 Ashland                 6-11           .353
2021                 Ursuline                 2-9            .186
2020                 Ursuline                 0-3            .000
2019                 Findlay                  10-9           .526
2018                 Findlay                  15-4           .789
2017                 Findlay                   7-11          .389
2016                 Dallas                    4-8             .333
2015                 Cornell College      1-14          .067