By Craig Anderson

MIDDLETOWN — Twenty years after teaming up to win a boys’ basketball state title, members of that Middletown High squad are doing quite well on their own too.

Sam Scott is an assistant football coach at Temple who played in the Canadian Football League for six years. He played basketball and football at West Chester University too.

Mike Shipman played basketball at Monmouth and now works in the trucking/transportation industry in North Carolina.

Dominque Barron owns a health and wellness business.

Sylvester “Buck” Queen is a girls’ basketball coach at Middletown High who also operates a lawn care service.

Dyon Butcher works for the Town of Middletown.

Mike Griffin is a professional roller skater was featured on ABC’s Good Morning America with his brother Marcus at “The Griffin Brothers.”

Kevin Cooper has been in the Delaware Army National Guard for 12 years and currently a business agent and timekeeper for local 1694 Longshoremen Association.

Brandon Bryant is serving in the U.S. Air Force and lives in Alaska. He coaches basketball at the YMCA too.

Ty Watson owns a construction company, coaches youth basketball and football and will coach the Odessa High football team in the spring.

Justin Mann is an engineer for a construction firm in Washington, D.C.

Paul Gibbs is currently pursuing a career in culinary arts with a focus on vegan/vegetarianism.

Yes, they’re scattered and living adult lives, but the bond remains strong.

Nearly all of the Cavaliers from the 2004 squad returned for a Feb. 2 recognition ceremony inside the Middletown gymnasium they once dominated in. Coaches and administrators at the time took part as well.

The Cavaliers went 22-4 to win the title in 2004 followed by a 26-1 record and championship run in 2005. They beat Salesianum 59-54 to earn the first crown, Caravel 77-58 for the second.

It was a dominating time in the court, indeed. Future Division I athletes Paris Horne (St. John’s basketball), Eric Latimore (Penn State football) and Justin Mann (Stanford basketball) arrived in 2005. Also new to the squad was Adam Shrewsbury, who played Division I-AA football at Delaware State University.

Joining the ceremony was their head coach Chuck “Coach Rob” Robinson, who says he regularly keeps in touch with them.

“The guys text me what they have been up to jobs, married and so on,” he said.

Also, according to Mr. Robinson, “The guys have their own little group chat now and they’re always talking to one another.”

Having them all in the same gymnasium for a celebration again was extra special for the coach.

“Seeing them again was like a dad seeing his sons grow up and become men who now understand that discipline and attention to details is an important life lesson,” he said.