Caitlin Simon

Bio

Caitlin Simon is in her seventh year at Central Community College, where she had an outstanding career on the softball team from 2012 to 2014.

 CCC is coming off some of the most successful seasons in program history. Simon led the 2024-2025 Raiders to the programs first ever District win. Additionally in 2022-23 she led the Raiders to their first Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference (NCCAC) title and 31 wins, the most single-season victories. The Raiders also won the Region 9 championship, in 2022, 2023, and 2025 under the leadership of Simon.

 Simon is a three-time Region 9 Coach of the Year and earned her first NCCAC Coach of the Year award in 2023. She recruited and coached CCC’s first two-time NJCAA All-American, coached 24 All-Region 9 performers and 47 student-athletes who earned NJCAA academic honors.

 As a player at CCC, Simon was named All-NCCAC, All-Region 9, Region 9 All-Tournament, NCCAC All-Academic and Region 9 All-Academic. She also played on the Raiders basketball team.

After graduating from CCC with an associate of arts degree, she continued her collegiate softball career at Wayne State College, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in sport management in 2016.

During the 2016-17 academic year, Simon served as an assistant coach for CCC softball and basketball before returning to Wayne State to pursue a master’s degree in organizational management in sport. She served as a graduate assistant in the department of health, human performance and sport and as an assistant softball coach at Wayne High School, where she helped lead the Blue Devils to a state title in 2018.

She and her husband Sam reside in Columbus and have three boys, Brooks, Baylor, and Bryson.