Diane Simpson-Bundy


Diane Simpson, OLY, MBA is an American athlete, an Olympian and an eight-time Rhythmic gymnastics national team member, and was inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame, Class of 2004. She is a media marketing communications consultant who writes, produces and manages talent and events for clients, sponsors and stakeholders.
She qualified a spot for the United States into the 1988 Summer Olympics and 1992 Summer Olympic Games. She was inducted into the Evanston Township High School Athletic Hall of Fame.
Simpson won more than 20 international medals, three Olympic Festival titles, and 22 national titles – including winning all four event finals and the All-Around title at the 1988 U.S. National Championships in San Rafael, California. – during her career.

Competitive history

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1986 Four Continents Championships competition
1987 Pan American Games
1987 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
1988 Four Continents Championships competition
1988 Summer Olympics Team
1989 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
1990 Goodwill Games
1990 Four Continents Championships competition
1991 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
1991 Pan American Games
1992 Won the Mariana Grajalas competition in Cuba
2004 United States Gymnastics Hall of Fame

Business career

Education and work

Simpson graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism with a double major in journalism and political science and worked as a media relations and events specialist at the College of American Pathologists. She was manager of athlete relations and communications at Chicago 2016 and a writer for the Chicago Sun-Times for 10 years before her work with Diane Simpson Consulting.
She has worked News broadcasting in Chicago and with other national television news and radio stations, including WJWJ-TV in Beaufort, South Carolina, WBBM-TV, WMAQ-TV, WFLD-TV FOX 32, WMVP-AM 1000. She returned to writing news for CBS Channel 2 in 2015.
She has also served as advance, fundraiser and as Illinois press coordinator for Sen. John Kerry for President in 2004.
Currently she works as activation media marketing communications producer/writer and event project manager for clients.

Chicago 2016 Olympics bid

Simpson held the role of manager of athlete relations and communications for the Chicago bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics from 2006 to 2009.
She accompanied about 20 Olympians and elite athletes—including Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Michael Johnson, Edwin Moses, Nastia Liukin, Bart Conner, Nadia Comaneci, Willie Banks, Dikembe Mutombo, David Robinson, Brandi Chastain and David Diaz—to Copenhagen, Denmark, for the 2016 Olympic Games Host City announcement that took place Oct. 2, 2009.

Post-Olympics career

Simpson is the president of the Midwest Chapter of U.S. Olympians and Paralympians, the regional chapter of the U.S. Olympians Association. Her term began in 2006 and she was re-elected in 2012. She also serves as secretary of the Female Athlete Triad Coalition, a 501 global health advocacy collaboration.
She lives with her two children, Alexis, and Jonathan
She has been certified as an American College of Sports Medicine Certified Personal Trainer.

Media appearances

Film and television

Served as a Turner Sports commentator at the 1998 Goodwill Games.
Performer in "Best Years of Our Lives" music video for BaHa Men.
Performer in 1989 American Music Awards. Miss Moscow News, 1988.

Magazines, newspapers

Appeared in Mademoiselle in 1989. The magazine ceased publication in 2001.