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Frank Sims starts his 24th season at the helm of the Badgers and has compiled a 596-587-3 record over that span.  Over the 25 years he has served as a collegiate skipper, he has accumulated a career record of 640-597-3.

Sims is Spring Hill's all-time winningest coach and his record includes 16 20-win seasons, six 30-win seasons, two 40-win seasons and four Gulf Coast Athletic Conference championships.  Spring Hill has also appeared in the NAIA Regional Tournament four times and Sims has been honored as GCAC Coach of the Year on four occasions.

In the last 15 years, Spring Hill has seen its greatest success on the diamond, posting nine 30-win seasons, including a school-best 40-15 mark in 1992, which culminated in a District-30 crown.  The 1992 team also set 18 team, individual and conference records that year.  In 2001, Sims recorded his milestone 500th victory.

Fifty-seven players have been named All-Gulf Coast Athletic Conference during Sims' tenure on "The Hill," including two-time NAIA All-American and Pittsburgh Pirate starting pitcher Blake Stein.

Sims began his coaching career as an assistant at his alma mater, Eastern Illinois University.  After one season at EIU, Sims moved on to Sparta High School, in Illinois, where he served as head coach, in addition to assistant positions in both football and basketball.  Sims posted a 44-18 record in three seasons on the prep diamond.

After his experience at Sparta, Sims returned to the collegiate ranks in 1980, serving two seasons as an assistant at Morehead State University.  He later became the head baseball coach at Milton College, in 1983, where his squad finished 36-10, narrowly missing a berth into the NAIA World Series.  Two seasons as an assistant coach at the University Wisconsin-Whitewater followed before he arrived at Spring Hill.

Sims is a member of the executive committee of the NAIA World Series where he serves as chairperson of the International Play committee.  He was also an assistant coach for the Mobile Baysharks of the Texas-Louisiana Professional Baseball league for two seasons.

Sims earned his bachelor's degree in health, physical education and recreation from Eastern Illinois in 1977, and his master’s degree in H.P.E.R. from Morehead State in Kentucky in 1980.  He and his wife, Dana, have four children: Drew, 23, Sarah, 20, Kelsey, 18, and Brian, 16.