Falcon Pride Top Ten #8: Simons Graduates as Career Leader in Multiple Categories for Fitch Volleyball Program

As the unofficial start to the 2026 fall sports season quickly approaches, AustintownAthletics.com will close the month of June by taking a look back at the top ten sports moments from the 2025-2026 school year. The list will feature the most memorable and notable individual and team performances, achievements, and milestones as selected by members of the Austintown Fitch Athletic Department.

The Falcon Pride Top Ten Countdown will begin on June 20 with #10 and continue through the end of the month with the #1 sports moment of the year. As always, thank you to all of Falcon Country for your continued support of our student-athletes both on the field and, most importantly, in the classroom. Keep celebrating your Falcon Pride!

With its decades long history of success, the Fitch volleyball program has seen its share of individual successes as well throughout that time. However, following the 2025 season, only one player can call herself the school's all-time leader in assists, digs, and aces.

Rylie Simons rewrote the record book during her four years with the team and will mostly be remembered for putting up a school record 3339 career assists, a mark which ranks 6th all-time in OHSAA history. The setter also owns the Lady Falcons' records for assists in a season with 869 and assists in a match with 56.

During her senior season, Simons added two more major school records to her résumé as she became the program's all-time leader in career digs with 1072 as well as the all-time leader in career aces with 232.

Along with records comes recognition, and Rylie received a bounty of awards for her success on the court including those listed below:

The recently graduated Fitch alumna, who was a three-time Team Captain and two-time Team MVP, "set" a high bar for future Lady Falcons to try to reach. But as the old sports adage goes, "records are made to be broken." Just ask Rylie Simons.