Bio

Honors & Awards

• National Qualifier, all-around (2024)
• CSC Academic All-District (2024)
• Three-time ECAC All-Academic (2023, 24, 25)
• Team Most Improved (2024)
• Three-time Team Hardest Worker (2023, 24, 25)
• Three-time letterwinner (2023, 24, 25)

2025 | junior

• Earned ECAC All-Academic accolades
• Voted the team’s Hardest Worker for the third straight year
• Competed in the all-around twice, winning one title and placing third in the other
• Averaged a 12.200 on floor, 11.093 on pommel, 11.875 on rings, 13.143 on vault, 11.275 on parallel bars, and 11.775 on high bar
• Consistently made the varsity lineup on pommel and vault

2024 | sophomore

• Qualified for the National Collegiate Men's Gymnastics Championship as an all-around competitor
• Won the all-around competition in Simpson's home meet against Greenville on Feb. 3
• Finished runner-up in the all-around at Illinois and Greenville
• Posted season averages of 11.579 (floor), 11.769 (pommel), 11.892 (rings), 13.406 (vault), 11.240 (parallel bars), 11.000 (high bar)
• Averaged an all-around score of 71.760
• Achieved his first score of at least 14 points on March 22 on vault (14.100)
• Earned the team's Hardest Worker and Most Improved awards
• Named to CSC Academic All-District Team and earned ECAC All-Academic accolades

2023 | freshman

• Earned the team's first Hardest Worker award
• Achieved ECAC All-Academic recognition
• Won his first all-around title with a 66.750 at the Navy Dual on March 16
• Placed third in the all-around at the William & Mary Dual on Jan. 15
• Recorded the Storm's highest pommel horse score of the season with a 13.300 on Feb. 17
• Averaged a 11.900 on floor, 10.805 on pommel horse, 9.850 on rings, 12.819 on vault, 11.133 on parallel bars and 10.910 on high bar

Before Simpson

• A 2022 graduate of Huron High School
• 2x national qualifier
• 2022 national finalist
• 2022 medalist in pommel and vault

Personal

• Parents are Wendy Johnson and Matt Staley
• Has one sibling, Kiah
• Majoring in kinesiology

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