Next weekend, Duke (16-2) will attempt to win its first men's lacrosse national championship.
She is an athlete as well, and won two national lacrosse championships playing for Princeton University.
They had accomplished what many regarded as an impossible task, a triumph over Syracuse for the national lacrosse championship.
Duke won in overtime, 6-5, to capture their first men's lacrosse championship in school history.
Opportunity presented itself to Simmons a few months ago when Syracuse won the national lacrosse championship for the second consecutive year.
The Mann Cup is the senior men's lacrosse championship of Canada.
The field hosted the 2008 Empire State Games men's lacrosse championships.
This set an attendance record for most number of people to attend the quarterfinal round of the lacrosse championships.
Previously, the national senior men's lacrosse championship, awarded since 1901, was competed for under field lacrosse rules.
(Coincidentally they also entered into what became the first Women's Lacrosse Championship).