Mountain West Hires Sports Lawyer as Assistant Director, Governance and Compliance
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The Mountain West has announced that Andrew Simms has been hired as assistant director, governance and compliance.
In that role, Simms will support the day-to-day aspects of the Conference’s governance and compliance efforts.
Simms comes to the Mountain West from Loyola University Chicago, where he served as a compliance assistant from August 2022 to December 2023, helping modernize the Athletic Department’s monitoring systems and supplying multiple interpretations to the University’s executive-level leadership regarding potential, proposed and adopted NCAA legislation, NIL statutory law, and state-specific sports wagering laws.
Simms also served as compliance intern at the University of Maryland in the summer of 2023 and at George Mason University in the summer of 2022.
A native of Westminster, Maryland, Simms graduated from the University of Kentucky with a degree in business administration in 2018. He will finish his Juris Doctor at the DePaul University College of Law in May 2024.