MASON CITY – Daisy Simms has stepped down as the NIACC women’s soccer coach.
Simms, who was promoted to head coach in December after spending the 2017 season as an assistant, will have her working visa to stay in the United States expire on Thursday.
Simms will return to her native country of England with the hopes of returning to the United States someday to coach women’s soccer.
NIACC men’s soccer coach Leo Driscoll, who was the head women’s coach in 2017, will re-assume the women’s head coaching duties, as well.
Before arriving at NIACC, Simms was a student assistant coach for Delta State University in Cleveland, Miss.
A native of Portsmouth, England, Simms has been playing soccer since she was four years old. In England, Simms played in the Southern Premier League for Portsmouth Ladies FC and for the county of Hampshire.
Simms moved to the United States in 2012 and began her freshman year of college at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma.
In 2013, Simms transferred to Jacksonville College in Texas where she broke records for fastest goal scored in school history, fastest hat trick scored, most goals in a game (5) and was selected to the all-region team.
Simms transferred to Delta State in August of 2014.
