Josh Sims (lacrosse)

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Josh Sims
Born (1978-07-29) July 29, 1978 (age 45)
2002
–
Career highlights
College highlights
  • Top VIII Award
    (2001)
  • McLaughlin Award (1998 & 2000)
  • Men's Ivy League Player of the Year (2000)
  • All-American
    3x (1st team: 1998, 1999, 2000)
  • Academic All-American
    (1st team: 2000; 2nd team: 1999)
  • USILA Scholar All-American (2000)
  • 1998
    )
Professional highlights
  • Major League Lacrosse
    Steinfeld Cup
    Champion (2002 & 2005)
  • Major League Lacrosse All-Star 5x (2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007)
  • Major League Lacrosse 10th Anniversary Team (2010)
  • Major League Lacrosse All-time playoff goals scored record.
  • National Lacrosse League
    Champion's Cup
    (2006)
  • National Lacrosse League All-Star (2007)
Professional Lacrosse Hall of Fame, 2024

Joshua S. Sims (born July 29, 1978) is an American former professional lacrosse player. He played in Major League Lacrosse through 2013 and last played box lacrosse in the National Lacrosse League with the Philadelphia Wings in 2010. He starred as a member of the Princeton Tigers men's lacrosse team from 1997 through 2000. He is a two-time NCAA champion, three-time MLL champion, and one-time NLL champion.

At Princeton, he earned

NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship
tournament invitations and two NCAA championships.

As a professional, he is a five-time MLL All-star and an NLL All-star. In the MLL, he has earned two league championships and holds the all-time league record for playoff goals scored. He also has an NLL championship. He was selected to the MLL 10th Anniversary team in August 2010 and the Colorado Mammoth 10th Anniversary team in 2011.

Sims is currently Head of Lacrosse for the Premier Lacrosse League.[1]

Background

As an

Baltimore Sun.[2] Sims was an All-Anne Arundel County selection by the Baltimore Sun again as a senior captain when he was also named an All-Metro selection for controlling 72% of his face-offs, while scoring 28 goals and adding 12 assists.[3][4] Sims was a member of the Under-19 Team USA that won the World Championship in Tokyo in 1996.[5]

Collegiate career

After graduating from Severn, Sims attended

NCAA Top VIII Award (the first lacrosse player to be presented with the award since 1983).[7] He was only the fourth Ivy League athlete honored in the award's 27-year history.[7] He was awarded the 1998 & 2000 McLaughlin Award as the best NCAA lacrosse midfielder.[8] He was a first team USILA All-American Team selection in 1998, 1999 and 2000.[9][10][11] He was also first team All-Ivy League in 1998, 1999 and 2000.[12][13][14] Sims earned the 2000 Men's Ivy League Player of the Year.[8] As a freshman, he was a member of the 1997 team that is regarded as the best in school history with a record number of wins during its 15–0 season.[15] He served as co-captain of the 2000 team.[16] Sims is one of two Princeton Lacrosse two-time Academic All-Americans.[17] Following the 1999 season, he was selected as an at-large second team Academic All-American, and following the 2000 season, he was a first team selection.[18] He was also a 2000 USILA Scholar All-American.[8]

The 1997–2000 teams were 6–0 undefeated outright Ivy League Conference champions.

NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship invitations, bringing the schools streak to eleven consecutive seasons.[21]

In Sims' first game as a Tiger, he scored the game-winning goal in a 1997

2000 NCAA Division I Men's Lacrosse Championship tournament, he posted two goals and two assists in the 10–7 quarterfinal victory over Maryland.[30] He also scored in the 12–11 semifinal victory against Virginia.[31] Sims' two goals made him the only person to score multiple goals for Princeton in the championship game 13–7 loss to Syracuse.[32]

Professional career

NLL career

Sims played the 2000 and 2001 seasons for the Washington Power of the National Lacrosse League.

indoor lacrosse league, and officially retired after the 2009 season.[36] However, he returned to play the 2010 season for the Philadelphia Wings.[33]

MLL career

Sims, who did not play in the 2014 season, has played in the MLL since 2001:

Washington Bayhawks during the MLL supplemental draft. On February 12, 2010, Sims was traded from the Bayhawks to the Toronto Nationals. In June, Sims was traded from the Nationals to the Chicago Machine.[52]

As of August 2010[update], Sims was the Major League Lacrosse All-Time leader in post-season goals scored (29). That month, during the MLL championship weekend, he was named to the 11-man MLL 10th Anniversary team.[53] He did not play in 2011, but in 2012 he returned to the Denver Outlaws and even scored 5 goals in one game for them.[54] He began 2013 on the sideline with a hamstring injury for the Bayhawks.[55]

Personal life

Sims was the founder of Icon Lacrosse, LLC, and former Director of the Boulder Valley Lacrosse Association.[56] According to his Denver Outlaws biography, he is married to Meghan Bauer Sims.[57]

In college, he helped the Tigers to raise approximately $60,000 for the Central Jersey Pediatric AIDS foundation and worked with the

GPA.[5][7][58]

In the

season 9 December 9, 2011 episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on ABC, Sims' helped build a house in Mardela Springs, Maryland over a span of 106 hours in just five days. The nonprofit Project 911 (911nfp.org) along with The Fusion Cos., an Annapolis modular-home builder, built The Johnson-Goslee Family house.[59][60]

In 2009, Sims was inducted into the Athletic Hall of Fame at his high school, Severn School. In 2020, during the George Floyd protests, Sims renounced this recognition over the school's "failed leadership" in addressing systemic racism.[61]

Statistics

NLL

The following are his NLL career stats:[33]

    Regular Season   Playoffs
Season Team GP G A Pts LB PIM GP G A Pts LB PIM
2001 Washington 11 12 13 25 67 6 1 1 1 2 10 0
2002 Washington 14 11 12 23 74 6 2 3 2 5 13 0
2003 Colorado 14 8 20 28 112 8 2 2 0 2 17 0
2004 Colorado 13 5 12 17 85 15 1 2 0 2 10 0
2005 Colorado 16 14 14 28 111 12 1 1 2 3 5 2
2006 Colorado 16 12 7 19 104 26 3 4 3 7 26 2
2007 Colorado 15 19 20 39 136 12 1 1 0 1 7 2
2008 Colorado 10 5 5 10 59 10 0 0 0 0 0 0
2009 Colorado 3 1 5 6 22 0 1 0 0 0 6 0
2010 Philadelphia 11 2 9 11 49 8 0 0 0 0 0 0
NLL Totals 123 89 117 206 819 103 12 14 8 22 94 6

MLL

The following are his MLL career stats:[37]

    Regular Season   Playoffs
Season Team GP G 2ptG A Pts LB PIM GP G 2ptG A Pts LB PIM
2001 Baltimore 14 16 1 9 26 15 3.5 2 2 0 0 4 8 0.5
2002 Baltimore 14 23 2 9 34 27 1.5 2 6 0 0 8 10 1
2003 Baltimore 7 12 2 5 19 20 4 2 4 0 1 7 7 0
2004 Baltimore 3 5 1 1 7 5 0 1 2 0 1 3 7 0
2005 Baltimore 9 18 0 5 23 26 2 2 4 0 2 6 0 0
2006 Denver 11 19 7 11 37 43 4 2 2 0 2 4 9 0
2007 Denver 12 11 2 9 22 19 0 1 2 0 1 3 1 0
2008 Denver 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 1 0 3
2009 Denver 9 11 0 8 19 7 1.5 2 6 0 0 6 2 0
2010 Toronto 2 4 1 1 6 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010 Chicago 7 10 0 5 15 12 2.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2012 Denver 10 13 0 3 16 7 1.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
MLL Totals 99 143 16 66 225 183 21.5 16 29 0 7 42 47 1.5

Princeton University

     
Season GP G A Pts PPG
1997 15 8 2 10 --
1998 15 32 5 37 --
1999 13 27 16 43 --
2000 15 36 15 51 --
Totals 58 103 38 141 --

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Preceded by
Jim Gonnella
Jay Jalbert
 McLaughlin Award
1998
2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Men's Ivy League Player of the Year
2000 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
???
 MLL All-Time Post season goals leader
20??–present 		Succeeded by
current leader

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