Mike Simmons is
a retired
British-trained
Solicitor and
Attorney-at-Law.
In 1968 he
became the first
colored lawyer
to be made a
partner in a
white law firm
in Barbados and
for many years
served on
several
corporate and
educational
boards in the
island.
He is a former
Barbados
National Soccer
Player and is
also a former
National Amateur
Golf Player,
having
represented
Barbados for
many years in
the Annual
Caribbean
Amateur Golf
Championships
both as a player
and Team
Captain.
A graduate of
the Harvey
Penick Golf
Academy, Mike,
since 1993, has
been teaching
golf in Florida
with PGA Class A
Professionals,
Charlie DeLucca,
John Norton,
Scott Jones, and
Charlie Pifer,
to whom he was
apprenticed in
the PGA program.
Mike is
currently the
Teaching
Professional and
Director of the
Junior Golf
Program at the
Miccosukee Golf
and Country
Club. He is also
the golf
professional for
the Miami Dade
College -
Kendall Campus,
the Sunset
Senior High
School
Girls'Team, and
the Executive
Women's Golf
Association,
Miami, Florida.
Mike is an
experienced and
skilled Sports
Administrator.
He served for
many years as
President of the
Barbados Golf
Association and
President of the
Caribbean Golf
Association (15
countries from
Santo Domingo in
the North to
Trinidad and
Tobago in the
South).
In 1994 and in
2006, he was
honored by the
Caribbean Golf
Association for
his contribution
to golf in the
Caribbean and
the development
of the Caribbean
Amateur Golf
Championships.
In 1962 Louis
Lynch and he
co-founded the
Barbados Olympic
Association.
Louis Lynch was
elected the
Association's
first President
and Mike the
Association's
first
Secretary-General.
He subsequently
served for
twelve years as
President of the
Association. For
fifteen years,
he was a member
of the Executive
Committee of the
Pan American
Sports
Organization
(PASO) (Pan-Am
Games), of which
he was also
Treasurer for
eight years. He
served on
several
commissions of
PASO and in 1991
he and Xavier
Ostos (Mexico)
were appointed a
two-man
commission to
rewrite the
current
constitution of
PASO .
In 1979 he was a
member of the
five-man PASO
delegation
together with
Mario Vasquez
Rana (Mexico),
Mike Fennel
(Jamaica), Bob
Kane (USA) and
Col Rodriguez
(Argentina) in a
historic meeting
with an IOC
delegation
headed by Madame
Berlioux
(France) in
Colorado Springs
at which the
case was
successfully
made for the
sharing of
Olympic Games
profits by way
of grants and
subsidies to
continental
Olympic
Associations and
National
Federations for
global
development of
the Olympic
Movement.
He was
Chef-de-Mission
to the Barbados
Olympic teams to
the Games in
Munich (1972),
Montreal (1976)
and Seoul (1988)
and was part of
every Barbados
delegation to
the Pan Am Games
from 1963 (Sao
Paulo) to !991
(Havana).
In 2003, on the
35th anniversary
of the XIX Games
of the Olympiad
in Mexico City,
Mike was honored
by the Barbados
Olympic
Association for
his contribution
to the Olympic
Movement as a
member of the
First Barbados
Olympic Team to
the Games in
1968.
Mike is a member
of Golfsmith
Clubmakers
Association and
is certified in
Clubmaking,
Clubfitting and
Clubrepair.