Kip Simons
1996 Olympian
1995 World Championships Team Member
1994 Team World Championships Team Member
Hometown: Bloomsburg, Pa.
Residence: Columbus, Ohio
Birth Date/Place: September 11, 1972/Media, Pa.
Club: Ohio State
Coach: Peter Kormann, Miles Avery
Former Coaches: Larry Moyer
College: Ohio State Graduate (June 1996)
Years on Senior National Team: 4 (1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97)
Began Gymnastics: 1978
Favorite Apparatus/Event: Still rings
Hobbies: Snow boarding
|
Simons was a member of the 1996 Olympic Team that placed fifth. This was the strongest men's team since 1984. Simons has announced his retirement from competitive gymnastics and will move to Ann Arbor, Mich., August 1997, to work as the Assistant Gymnastics Coach for the University of Michigan. He is a two-time World Championships team member and earned a spot on his first World Championships Team in 1994 by finishing seventh at the 1994 National Championships. He was a member of the gold-medal Pan American Games team in 1995. Although his name, Kip, is a gymnastics skill, he is really named after Kip Keino from Africa who earned a gold medal in athletics at the 1972 Olympics.
|
International Competition
- 1996 Olympic Games, Atlanta, Ga.; 5th-Team
- 1996 Budget Rent a Car Gymnastics Invitational USA vs. France; 1st-Team
- 1995 Atlanta Gymnastics Invitational, Atlanta, Ga.; 12th-AA
- 1995 Subway World Gymnastics Challenge, Ontario, Canada; 11th-AA
- 1995 World Championships, Sabae, Japan; 9th-Team
- 1995 Budget Rent a Car Invitational, San Jose, Calif.; 2nd-Team, 7th-AA
- 1995 Pan American Games, Mar del Plata, Argentina; 1st-Team
- 1995 McDonald's American Cup, Seattle, Wash.; 14th-AA (prelims.)
- 1994 Pacific Alliance Championships, Auckland, New Zealand; 1st-Team, 4th-AA, 2nd-SR
- 1994 Team World Championships, Dortmund, Germany; 9th-Team
- 1994 Goodwill Games, St. Petersburg, Russia; 3rd-Team (alternate)
- 1994 Budget Rent a Car Invitational: USA vs. Romania, Worcester, Mass.; 2nd-Team, did not compete AA
- 1988 Jr. Pan American Games; 1st-AA & FX & PH & SR & PB
National Competition
- 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials-Gymnastics, Boston, Mass.; 5th-AA
- 1996 Coca-Cola National Championships, Knoxville, Tenn.; 4th-AA, 1st-SR, 2nd-PB
- 1995 World Team Trials, Austin, Texas; 4th-AA
- 1995 Coca-Cola National Championships, New Orleans, La.; 5th-AA
- 1994 Coca-Cola National Championships, Nashville, Tenn.; 7th-AA, 4th-FX, 3rd-SR
- 1994 NCAA Championships, Lincoln, Neb.; 3rd-Team, 3rd-AA, 9th-V, 4th(t)-PB, 7th-HB
- 1994 Winter Cup Challenge, Colorado Springs, Colo.; 8th-AA
- 1993 Coca-Cola National Gymnastics Championships, Salt Lake City, Utah; 10th-AA, 5th-SR
updated: 10 Jan 1997
