Sims retired earlier this year after 37 years at the helm of the Badger baseball team. Sims holds the record for most career victories at Spring Hill with a total of 1,010 wins. During his tenure at SHC, he had 27 20-win seasons, seven 30-win seasons, two 40-win seasons and six conference championships. Spring Hill appeared in the NAIA Regional Tournament four times during his years and Sims has been honored as a Conference Coach of the Year on five occasions, with the latest being the 2014 Independent Collegiate Athletic Association (ICAA) honor in NCAA Division II. Sims was inducted into the Alabama Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 2017. The Badgers won the 2022 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Tournament Championship where Sims was named the "Coach of the Tournament" and SHC secured the team's second trip to an NCAA Division II South Region Championship Tournament.