Bio

Bri Sims enters her fourth season as the University of Dallas women’s basketball head coach. She joined the staff in March, 2019 as the 16^th head coach.

Sims's finished her first season in 2020, posting a 3-22 record, notching her first head coach collegiate victory on November 19th at Southwestern Adventist University.  In her second year, Sims worked with a youthful roster, guiding a roster of 12 players that had nine true freshman and two sophomores. Sims headlined the UD postseason awards with SCAC Coach of the Year, the first by a UD women’s basketball coach and third by the school. The Crusaders 4-6 record and .400 winning percentage were the highest marks for the program since the 2016-17 season.

The 2021-22 season marked her third as head coach of the program and a return to a full schedule following the abbreviated 2020-21 season.  The Crusaders posted a 5-19 record on the year.

Sims previously served as an assistant coach at Hendrix College for three seasons. The Warriors garnered a combined 46-37 record with a pair of trips to the Southern Athletic Association (SAA) Championship Game. In her first season in Conway, the Warriors went 18-11 overall and earned a trip to the NCAA Division III Tournament after capturing the SAA Tournament Title.

Hendrix improved to 19-9 in 2017-18 and was edged in the SAA Championship by a point in overtime.

Sims coached the SAA Player of the Year and All-Conference First Team selection Sara Dyslin.

Before Hendrix, Sims spent three seasons at Bluffton University in Bluffton, Ohio as a graduate assistant. While there, she helped lead the Beavers to their first ever Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference (HCAC) Championship and trip to the NCAA Tournament on a 25-3 season in 2015-16. She coached four All-HCAC players and the all-time leading scorer, Macey Sheerer.

As a collegiate player, Sims lettered four years at the NCAA Division II University of Massachusetts Lowell. She was a career 83 percent free throw shooter and shot at a 37 percent clip from three-point territory.

In 2013, Sims graduated from UMass Lowell with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts with a Psychology & Sociology concentration.

Sims earned her Master of Business Administration with a Sports Management concentration in 2016 at Bluffton.