Simpson joined W&J as assistant coach of the cross country and track & field programs before the 2024-25 season.
Simpson helped the W&J distance runners to a historic campaign in 2025-26. The W&J women's cross country team secured its first PAC Championship in program history. Claire Anderson repeated as the USTFCCCA Cross Country Athlete of the Year in addition to earning PAC Runner of the Year. Anderson finished in third place to earn First Team All-America honors at the 2025 NCAA D-III Cross Country Championship meet in Spartansburg, S.C. On the men's side, Dom Flitcraft qualified for the NCAA Championship meet for a second-straight year after securing the PAC individual championship and PAC Runner of the Year honors. Wyatt Stroup finished third at the PAC Championship meet and earned PAC Newcomer of the Year honors. During track season, Anderson went on to qualify for the NCAA Championship meet in three events, earning two First Team All-America honors in both the 5,000 meters and 10,000 meters at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
During the 2024 cross country season, he helped Claire Anderson, Dominic Fltcraft and Brock Pennington qualify for the NCAA Cross Country Championships. Anderson compiled a historic season becoming W&J's first Region Runner of the Year after posting the fastest 6k by a W&J athlete in program history. Anderson went on to place 23rd at NCAA Nationals and became W&J's first women's All-American since Kristen Galligan in 2012.
Simpson came to W&J after a stint at West Liberty University as the head men’s and women’s track & field and cross country coach. There, he headed the efforts in growing the inherited roster size of 26 student-athletes to 90 total by the end of his stint.
On the cross country side, Simpson oversaw the training of 5 All-Atlantic Region Cross Country runners and two individual Women's Cross Country Conference Champions including the 2022 CRA National Trail Champion. Simpson also built an academically sound core which logged All-Academic Track and Field and Cross Country Teams in 2020, 2021 and 2022 with the Women's Cross Country team having the highest University GPA within athletics in 2022.
On the track & field end, Simpson made his impact in coaching student-athletes who broke 23 women's indoor schools records, 15 women's outdoor schools records, 22 men's indoor school records and nine men's outdoor records.
Simpson also spent 10 years as a volunteer assistant coach with Cleary at WVU and was co-owner of the prestigious West Virginia Flyers running club, helping develop numerous elite high school runners in the tri-state area.
A record-setting three-time state champion at Oak Glen (W.Va.) High School during the early 2000s, he is one of only five West Virginia runners ever to qualify for the Foot Locker National Cross Country Championships. He did that by finishing seventh in the 2002 Foot Locker South Regional Championship in Charlotte, N.C. with a 5K time of 15:06.09 – still the second-fastest South Regional time ever posted by a West Virginia runner. Two weeks later, competing against the nation’s top high school runners, Simpson finished 23rd in the Foot Locker Nationals in San Diego, Calif. with a time of 15:40.5.
He and his twin brother, Josh, originally signed to run for legendary track and cross country coach Sean Cleary at West Virginia University but wound up at NCAA Division I cross country power Northern Arizona University when WVU dropped its men's track program. After a year in Flagstaff, the twins returned to the Mountain State to complete their education while training with Cleary.
Simpson continued to compete at a high level in distances from 5K through marathons. He earned a first-team All-South spot in 2011 with a third-place finish in the men’s Open 5K at the Foot Locker South Regional and also ran the 2014 Boston Marathon.
A native of Windsor Heights, W. Va., Simpson worked his way to completing his bachelors degree in athletic coaching education in 2011 from West Virginia University. He earned his masters degree the following years in 2013 in athletic coaching education as well.
