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Dorsey Sims
Inducted 1992
Teacher/Coach 28 Years (1958 – 1986)
McReynolds High School—South Pittsburgh, TN (1958 – 1960)
Basketball
Record: 22 – 18
Slater High School—Bristol, TN (1960 – 1965)
Basketball
Record: 106 – 21
Riverside High School—Chattanooga, TN (1965 – 1971)
Basketball
Record: 153 – 30
2 TSSAA State Championships
Won 66 consecutive games (1968 – 70)
City High School—Chattanooga, TN (1971 – 1974)
Melrose High School—Memphis, TN (1974 – 1986)
Basketball
2 TSSAA State Championships
323 Wins
Coach Sims’s record: 654 – 200 at 5 different schools
Served as assistant basketball coach at Memphis State University for 10 years (1986 – 1996)
District 4 Coach of the Year
National Basketball Coaches Association Coaches Award
1981 Outstanding Community Service Award
Honored by State Senate in Joint Resolution 81
Honored by State House of Representatives as honorary page in 1968
Vanguard Club Hall of Fame—March 2000
University of Tennessee Chattanooga Hall of Fame 1999
Humanitarian of the Year—September 1997, Memphis, TN
Each year, a “Dorsey Sims Award” is given to an outstanding boy and girl at the Lorenzen Wright City of Memphis Basketball Camp
Played football for Tennessee State University
To be such an outstanding coach and teacher of the game of basketball, it is amazing that Coach Sims never played a day of organized basketball
Other 1992 Inductees
Fred Baker
1992
Charles Driskill
1992
John Farr
1992
R. C. Johnson
1992
Charles Kelly
1992
Leo Martindale
1992
Charles White
1992
James Williams
1992
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