Vanderbilt’s new soccer coach Clark Lea has hired Barton Simmons, scouting director for 247Sports and a soccer writer for CBS Sports school, according to a report from 247Sports on Sunday.
According to the report, Simmons will be hired as director of Vanderbilt’s worker corps of players.
Simmons, a Nashville local, was Lea’s teammate at Bell Academy.
Simmons played soccer at Yale and was in the All-Ivy League twice.
After college, he pursued a career in media at the recruiting site Rivals. com in 2000. He joined the recruiting site 247Sports in 2010.
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