Originally from
Broken Hill, Simmons played for the
North Broken Hill Football Club in her youth. With limited football opportunities for women in a country town, Simmons turned her athletic interests to basketball. She captained the
Australia women's national under-17 basketball team, nicknamed the Sapphires, and in 2016 led the team for average rebounds, assists, and spoils as their leading
point guard. At junior age, she won gold with the
Australia women's national basketball team in the
2019 World University Games. Simmons spent three years at
Oregon State University playing basketball prior her return home to
New South Wales. Once returning to Australia, she played basketball for the Mildura Heat and the
Ballarat Miners in the
NBL1 South as well as football, with more opportunities for women to play. She played country football for North Broken Hill and the
Gol Gol Hawks Football Club. ==AFL Women's career==