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She completed her primary education at Hydesville Tower School before attending Aldridge School and later Olchfa School in Swansea. She swam for Boldmere Swimming Club in Sutton Coldfield, under Head Coach Ashley Cox, but she and her mother moved to Swansea when Simmonds was 11 to take advantage of the city's world-class swimming pool.