Awards
- NFCA All-Region Second Team (2025)
- All-WAC Second Team (2025)
- CSC All-Academic All-District (2024, 2025)
- WAC Pitcher of the Week (4/8/24, 2/17/25)
- All-WAC (2024)
2025 (Senior): Appeared in and started in 50 contests, including 23 appearances and 16 starts in the circle...recorded 20 runs, 47 hits, including 11 doubles, one triple and six home runs, and 32 RBI...pitched 113.2 innings and struck out a team leading 94 batters...guided the team to ten wins from the circle and pitched nine complete games including two shutouts...held a team leading 2.40 ERA...recorded 11 multi-hit games, posting a season high three hits against Long Beach State...scored a season high three runs against Utah Tech while collecting a season best four RBI...combined for five hits at the WAC Tournament, posting back-to-back games with two hits...tallied a season high five assists against Abilene Christian while collecting a season high two putouts against Utah Valley...pitched three games with a career best eight strikeouts in all three contests, first grabbing career high strikeouts against Fresno State then matching performance against Utah State and Northwestern...pitched season high 8.0 innings against Arizona State.
2024 (Junior): Appeared in 22 games, making 20 starts in the circle, throwing six complete games, one shutout and one save... finished with a record of 4-11 with an ERA of 3.49 over 98.1 innings pitched with 53 strikeouts... started 45 games at designated player, appearing in 50 total games as a hitter... recorded 33 hits with seven doubles, four home runs, 24 RBIs, 11 walks drawn and nine runs scored... ranked 65th in the nation in sacrifice flies (four)... threw a complete game shutout, allowing just three hits and striking out six as well as adding a hit and two RBIs in a win over UConn (Feb. 11)... pitched four shutout innings with six strikeouts in a win over UC Riverside (Feb. 23)... marked first career home run against No. 21 California (Feb. 24)... posted two hits and one RBI against Kansas City (Mar. 1)... threw four shutout innings with five strikeouts and just three hits allowed (Mar. 7)... logged two hits, including a home run, as well as three RBIs and three runs scored in a win at Abilene Christian (Mar. 22)... allowed just one earned run over five innings pitched and smacked a three-run home run in a win over Stephen F. Austin (Mar. 30)... recorded one hit and three RBIs at Utah Valley (Apr. 2)... allowed just one earned run and struck out six in a complete game win over Utah Tech (Apr. 5).
TENNESSEE: A member of the Tennessee pitching staff from 2022-23... made 25 appearances with three starts... a part of Tennessee's 2023 Women's College World series squad and SEC Regular Season and Tournament title team... 2023 CSC Academic All-District... 2022 Easton/NFCA Scholar Athlete... 2021-22 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll...graduated in two years with a bachelor's degree in psychology and a minor in Spanish.
INTERNATIONAL: Pitched for the Canadian National Team at the 2022 Celebration Tour, Canada Cup and World Games... posted a team-best 1.31 ERA across 10.2 innings pitched at the World Games... earned her first win on the international stage against Italy (7/10), spinning 5.1 scoreless innings of relief and throwing four strikeouts... tossed 7.1 innings across five relief appearances at the Canada Cup, dealing five strikeouts and compiling a 3.82 earned runs average... in six appearances at the WNT Celebration Tour against The Netherlands and Czech Republic, totaled 11.2 innings with eight strikeouts and a 3.60 ERA... made her national team debut against The Netherlands (6/16), pitching 1.2 innings of relief in the Celebration Tour opener... announced as a member of the Canadian National Team after attending the WNT Selection Camp in June 2022. Selected to the 21-member 2024 Canadian Women's National Team in June 2024 that competed in the 2024 P5 Tournament and won gold in the Canada Cup...Helped advance Canada to the playoff rounds of the Canada Cup after pitching 2.0 innings without a hit and striking out three batters. Guided Canada to the gold medal game after pitching an inning, striking out a batter and allowing a run.
HIGH SCHOOL: A three-year varsity letterwinner at Garfield High School in Seattle... amassed a 25-3 record across three years of high school softball, totaling 498 strikeouts, 14 no-hitters and a 0.80 career ERA... named Gatorade Softball Player of the Year for the state of Washington her senior season... tabbed a Premier Girls Fastpitch (PGF) All-American in 2021 and represented the West in the East vs. West game... recorded a 0.44 ERA with 135 strikeouts in 47.2 innings pitched with five no-hitters her senior year... batted .778 with a .867 on-base percentage and a 1.444 slugging percentage in 2021... helped lead Garfield HS to a Class 3A state title her sophomore season in 2019... took home All-America honors from MaxPreps as a sophomore, posting a 9-1 record with a 1.04 ERA and 190 strikeouts in 80.2 innings... one of two freshmen to be named first team all-state by the Washington Coaches Association in 2018... went 10-1 as a freshman with a 0.77 ERA and 173 Ks.
CLUB: played club for the Washington Ladyhawks from 2015-21.
Nicola Brooke Simpson was born May 28, 2003 in Seattle... parents are Jackie and Ken... has one sibling, Kaia... Kaia played softball collegiately at UC San Diego from 2020-23... Jackie played volleyball and rowed at Queen's University in Kingston, Canada... Ken played volleyball at McGill College in Montreal, Canada... enjoys working with Foster dogs and singing in her free time... pursing her Master's of Criminal Justice at Seattle U.