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