NORFOLK, Va. -- Redshirt junior guard Jennie Simms, the 2015 C-USA Newcomer of the Year, repeated as a Conference USA All-Conference First Team selection, as announced by the league office on Sunday afternoon.
The two-time Conference USA Player of the Week finished the regular season as the league’s overall (20.9) and conference (22.2) scoring leader, as she has poured in double-digits 25 times this season. She was also the only player in C-USA to notch 35-plus points three times and holds the conference top scoring mark after a 39-point onslaught at UTSA. She is just one 35-point game away from joining the great Anne Donovan as the only ODU women's basketball player to notch four 35-plus outings in one season. In all, Simms has four 30-plus point performances in the 2015-16 campaign, the most in C-USA.
She also set a new ODU single-game record for free-throws made and attempted when she went 18-for-21 from the free-throw line at UTSA. The previous record for attempts was set by Lucienne Berthieu against Southern Methodist (12-19) on Mar. 20, 2000. The mark for free-throws made was set by Shareese Grant (17-18) against Rutgers on Dec. 5, 2004.
Simms is also the floor general, as she leads the team and ranks eighth in the conference with 3.7 assists per outing. She has dished out three-plus assists in 15 games and set a new career high against Pittsburgh on Nov. 27 after recording nine helpers. Futhermore, the redshirt junior stuffs the stat sheet with 6.6 rebounds per game and 1.6 steals per game.
She highlighted the season by making history against FIU, becoming just the sixth Old Dominion women’s basketball player to score 1,000 points in two years. She joined Anne Donovan, Shae Kelley, Nancy Lieberman, Clarisse Machanguana and Inge Nissen as the only players to reach 1,000 points in two seasons at ODU. She also became the 32nd Lady Monarch to reach 1,000 career points and currently has 1,247 points, which is good for 25th in ODU history.