WNBA Phoenix Mercury

Mercury Signs Jennie Simms to Hardship Contract

Published on June 9, 2022 under Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
Phoenix Mercury News Release


PHOENIX - The three-time WNBA Champion Phoenix Mercury today announced the team has signed guard Jennie Simms to a hardship contract.

Simms (6-0, 165) went through training camp with the Mercury ahead of the 2022 WNBA season and made the Opening Night roster on a replacement player contract as the team awaited overseas player arrivals. Simms saw 12 minutes of action in the season opener against Las Vegas.

Prior to her professional career, Simms played at Old Dominion, where she finished her collegiate career ranked fifth on the school's all-time scoring list with 2,151 career points. The 12th player in program history to be drafted, she was just the sixth Lady Monarch to score 2,000 career points and only the third to score 2,000 within her first three seasons. Additionally, she broke school records for career 30+ and 40+ point scoring games while there before being selected 18th-overall by the Mystics in the 2017 WNBA Draft.

Simms will be available tomorrow night when the Mercury take on the Atlanta Dream at Footprint Center, starting at 7:00pm PT.

Led by the 2021 Olympic gold-medal winning trio of Diana Taurasi, Skylar Diggins-Smith and Tina Charles, and coming off the club's fifth WNBA Finals appearance in franchise history, the three-time WNBA Champion Phoenix Mercury return to Phoenix this summer as the trio attempts to lead the Mercury to a WNBA-record tying fourth championship in 2022.

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