Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

To coach Ed Fry's recall, no one has ever posted more points for IUP in Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championship track and field meets than Kim Schneider-Simpson.
Fry has been involved mentoring track and field (and cross country) teams on camp since 1966, that is, 36 years, a he has a good memory. So that’s quite an accomplishment.
Schneider-Simpson won the conference individual championship in her specialty, the triple jump, in all four of her college years, freshman through senior.  And she added several points in the 100 meter high hurdles.
How well she persevered in postseason competition was demonstrated on the final day of the 1988 meet at IUP when she battled through a five-hour deadlock before winning the crown long after every other event had been decided.
Her final jump of 40 feet four inches set a new team record, breaking her own that she had first set as a freshman. It stood the test of time, as the 40-4 flight remains today, 14 years later as the team standard.
She became an All-American once, placing seventh in an NCP Division II national meet at Southeast Missouri State at the close of her sophomore season.
That trip was followed the next year by another to Nationals meet in San Angelo, Texas, just after the Crimson and Gray had won their first PSAC team title as Schneider-Simpson captured the meet’s outstanding field-event competitor trophy.
In the summer following graduation, with a major in applied mathematics, Schneider-Simpson was selected as the Great Pittsburgh Small College Athlete of the Year by the city's Chamber of Commerce. The honor was celebrated at a Downtown luncheon.
Three years after commencement, she completed a Master of Science degree in industrial engineering and operations research at Pennsylvania State University. That spring she volunteered as assistant track and field coach for Fry at IUP, tutoring long and triple jumpers.
In 1994, she married John Simpson, a 1990 IUP graduate who now an accountant for a galvanized steel company, called The Tech They have one daughter, Sarah Jane, born in March, 2000.
Until then, Schneider-Simpson had worked for Vesely Brother’s Moving and Storage as a billing specialist, after having been administrative assistant in the inventory and purchasing contracts departments at Season-All and Thermal Gard in hometown Indiana.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Schneider, her father the longtime administrator and marketing manager of Regency Mall on the southwest edge of town.