Personal Biography

McCall Simmons is a life, travel, animal, music, adventure lover from the mountains of Utah. She aspires to be a world traveller and prefers to volunteer abroad for the rest of her life rather than get paid doing something less hands-on. Alas, she is a mere student at Brigham Young University studying Recreation Management with an emphasis in Therapeutic Recreation. Fortunately with this career choice she can serve others, experience new things, and eventually be a wife and mother--and it may take her overseas one day!

She grew up the third of four children. Melissa and Ashley are the older sisters and Spencer is the younger brother. Her parents, Steve and Becky, are hard-working but laid-back and always emphasize high values. McCall started Preschool at 3-years-old and obtained her high school diploma at 17. Steve's and Becky's values taught McCall to work for A's with integrity and to be well-rounded with various activities. She expanded her mind in various AP classes. She participated in musical and theater groups to cultivate talents and to make friends. She worked at a music store and taught voice and piano lessons until she graduated.

After graduation, McCall went to BYU and discovered therapeutic recreation after her brother had been diagnosed with Asperger's. She realized this was the course for her and declared her major. Before she got started, she felt a need to teach English in China for a semester. Here she learned that she wanted to serve a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. A month after her return from China, she received a call to serve in the South Carolina Columbia Mission. She has been home for a month and is missing her country folk. On the other hand, she is thrilled to be learning about therapeutic recreation, being with friends, and wearing pants on a daily basis again. She believes that this day was better than the last and tomorrow will be better than today, so she is happy with her life always.