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.