Early career Grimes played
college soccer at
California State University San Marcos between 2010 and 2014. Seeing action in all four years with the Cougars, Grimes was a starter for the Cougars his final two years. During his junior season in 2013, Grimes started all 17 games at the center back position and helped CSUSM to 7 shutouts and a 0.86 goals against average. In his senior season in 2014, Grimes anchored the Cougars backline and helped them to one of the best seasons in school history. CSUSM finished 13-4 and earned a national ranking for only the second time in the soccer team's history. From the back, he collected one goal and one assist and helped limit opponents to only 21 goals for the season. Grimes earned all-conference honors in each of his final two collegiate seasons, collecting second-team recognition after his junior season and first-team recognition following his senior year.
Professional Grimes signed with
United Soccer League club
Tulsa Roughnecks in March 2015. Grimes resigned with
Tulsa Roughnecks November 2015. In 2021, Grimes rejoined
Temecula FC of the
National Premier Soccer League.
International career On November 16, 2014, Grimes made his debut for the senior side of the
Guam national football team (as a starter) in the 2–1 win over
Chinese Taipei national football team in the
2015 EAFF East Asian Cup. Grimes recently traveled with
Guam national football team to Hong Kong and Singapore in March 2015 for two FIFA international friendly matches, where he started and played a full 90 minutes in both contests. Grimes is scheduled to join the
Guam national football team in June 2015 for the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers. As part of the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers Grimes has started for
Guam national football team as center back against
Iran national football team,
Oman national football team,
Turkmenistan national football team,
India national football team. ==References==