Former Springfield coach in CT to retire

Chip Dorwin will retire at the end of the school year after 25 years as athletic director at Guilford High School in Connecticut. Dorwin, now 60, was a coach in several sports for 14 years at Springfield High School.

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Longtime Guilford AD Chip Dorwin set to retire

Thursday, May 5, 2011

By Joe Morelli
Special for the Shore Line

Chip Dorwin will retire at the end of the school year after 25 years as athletic director at Guilford High School.

Dorwin, 60, said he had been thinking about retiring for a couple of years. He only told his family that this would be his last year. Dorwin made the departure official at the end of March.

“I have been an AD for 32 years,” Dorwin said. “The job hasn’t gotten any easier. There are more nights now than ever. It’s just a draining job. There are a lot of Saturdays and Sundays when I’m working. I felt this was the right time for me personally and professionally and it is a good change for the department as well.”

Dorwin was a coach in several sports for 14 years at Springfield High School in Springfield, Vt., and was also the school’s athletic director the last seven years there before coming to Guilford in the fall of 1986.

Dorwin was the boys’ basketball coach at Guilford for eight years (1990-98), compiling a 125-58 record including three Shoreline Conference regular season championships.

Dorwin plans to stay involved with the Connecticut Association of Athletic Directors (CAAD) and hopes to help out with the continued growth of the Southern Connecticut Conference, of which Guilford is a member. Dorwin will also help the school get ready for the new school year and his replacement.

But Dorwin will also enjoy stepping away from the duties as a full-time athletic director.

“It will be a huge change of life for me,” Dorwin said. “To go for 32 years at 100 miles an hour and now all of a sudden, not to go out every night of the week, it will be a huge adjustment for me. My family has been working around my schedule and they have been very supportive, but it is time to put them first.”