Josh Simer
Josh Simer
Height: 5-9
Year: 2010
Hometown: Bolivar, Tenn.
Team: Men's Golf
Award: Man of the Year

Josh had the lowest average on the men’s golf team (73.7) and earned three all-tournament honors during his senior season on the way to winning the Gilbert Darcy Most Valuable Player Award. He finished in the Top 10 in tournaments five times during 2009-2010. He tied for fourth place at the Murray State Invitational (Oct. 5-6) for his first all-tourney honor, was third at the Frito Lay Invitational (Feb. 21-22) and fourth again at the North Alabama Classic (March 30-31). He narrowly missed a fourth all-tourney win with a tie for sixth at the UTM Grove Page Classic. He is a three-time recipient of the Ohio Valley Conference Academic Medal of Honor for achieving the highest GPA in the OVC in men’s golf, and in June he was named third-team Academic All-America. He lettered four years on the golf team (with a redshirt year in 2007-08) and was named to the 2007 OVC All-Newcomer team. He graduated Summa Cum Laude and received the W. A. Howard Award from TTU, and was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society in Spring 2009 Josh was a member of the OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll, the Athletic Director’s Honor Roll and the TTU Dean’s List in every semester from fall 2006 to the present. In the 2009 Fall semester, he was a member of the President’s Ambassadors, assisting with the Dixie College Celebration. Among his community services activities, Josh helped raise financial support for Lighthouse Boys and Girls’ Ranch, and participated in Feed The Multitudes, delivering Thanksgiving meals to homes in the region through the Stevens Street Baptist Church.