2012 Jostens Trophy Winner

Simpson, a native of Lee’s Summit, Mo., has helped lead the Maroons to a flawless 27-0 record this season. She leads Chicago’s balanced scoring attack with 12.6 points per game as they head into the Sweet 16 this weekend.  A First Team All-University Athletic Association (UAA) pick, Simpson has started all 27 contests this season and is also the team’s leading rebounder with better than eight rebounds each time out. 

Simpson, a Third Team Capital Academic All-America pick, presented by CoSIDA, holds a 3.81 grade point average as a visual arts and pre-med major. Simpson founded the UChicago chapter of Global Brigades, a student-led global health and sustainable development organization, and prior to her sophomore year helped to procure $200,000 of medicine for medical clinics in Honduras. She spent the summer before her junior year teaching visual arts to children in Varanasi, India, and earlier this year was accepted into the Teach for America program.