This week we look at the only full team currently in the Sullivan County Community College Athletic Hall of Fame, The 1992 Men's Basketball Team.  The Generals 1992 Men's Basketball Team was an outstanding example of individual student-athletes truly coming together as a single unit to compete for a common goal.  They cemented their place in history winning the 1992 NJCAA D3 National Championship and going an impressive 35-0 over the entire season. 
 
The 1992 Men's Basketball Team was inducted into the Sullivan County Community College Athletic Hall of Fame with the Class of 2016.  The 1992 Men's Basketball Team received their Hall of Fame induction based off the exceptional season of 1991-1992 in which they went undefeated and won a national championship.  The description on The 1992 Men's Basketball Team's Hall of Fame plaque reads:
 
The run of this special group started with a 138-46 victory and when the final score was tallied, they had posted a record 68 wins against 1 loss over a two-year period capturing the 1992 NJCAA National Championship with a perfect 35-0 record.  Known for their tenacious and attacking style on defense, the Generals held opponents to an average of less than 54 points per game while averaging more than 90 ppg.  Along the way they defeated the number 2 ranked team in the country by 37 points.  Nine different players held the title of leading scorer in a game that season in which six players averaged more than 10ppg.  In the 1992 Region XV Final, they held the Region's top scoring offense, scoreless for the first 4 minutes of the game.  Lead by Hall of Fame Coach, Dave Possinger and 1993 National Player of the Year Donald Taylor, the Generals marched through the National Tournament defeating each of their opponents by an average of more than 33 points. 
 
This Hall of Fame team was led by Head Coach Dave Possinger; who himself was inducted into the Generals Hall of Fame a year earlier, in 2015.  In 2013, The '92 Team was commemorated in the NJCAA D3 Men's Basketball National Championship hosted on the campus on SUNY Sullivan.  The Sullivan County Democrat ran an article written by Eli Ruiz highlighting this event and the 1992 team on March 1, 2013.
 
Anything's Possinger: SCCC Celebrated First Title Team
    Loch Sheldrake, NY — Twenty-plus win seasons have become the norm for the Sullivan County Community College men's basketball team. The Generals have won four national titles, more than any other junior collegiate Division III program, and are consistently considered a contender for the NJCAA National Tournament.
    If expectations are perennially high in Loch Sheldrake, it all began two decades ago with a coach named Dave Possinger, and a group of 12 young men who would win a staggering 68 consecutive games in Coach Possinger's first two seasons, and capture the school's first NJCAA National Championship in 1992 with a perfect 35-0 record.
    At halftime of Saturday's 2012 NJCAA National Championship game at the Paul Gerry Field House, between sixth-seeded Sandhills (North Carolina) Community College and #7 Cedar Valley (Texas) Community College, a ceremony was held to commemorate that magical 1992 season.
    All 12 members of the 1992 Generals team gathered at center court with Coach Possinger to be recognized for their many achievements that championship season. Present were former players Elton Richardson, Derick Simmons, Terell Kelly, Jarvis Cromedy, Reggie Nevell, Steve Hooge, Will Cadiz, Anthony Linton, Cedric Pitt, Charles Abel, Ralph DeJesus and Donald Taylor, who was the 1993 National Junior College Player of the Year. The players were called to center court by Mike McGuire, who was SCCC Athletic Director during that perfect season.
    When asked about that year's starting five, coach Possinger said, "That team was composed more of a starting 12. We were so deep that year that I could literally pull all five of my starters, send in another five players and fully expect the same results."
    At halftime of the third-place game, another undefeated Generals squad was honored at center court, this time, the 2007 version. This team, coached by current Athletic Director and 2012 national Tournament Director, Chris DePew, won the fourth and last of SCCC's national championships going 32-0 for the season. Representing the 2007 Sullivan County Community College Generals were Mustafa Palmer, Jamal Raphael, Hakiem Woodward and Jakar Wells, accompanied by DePew.
    Where Are They Now?
    Donald Taylor: After graduating from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Taylor became a teacher at Elmont HS in Long Island for several years and is now an officer for the NYPD. He said that he will teach again when he retires from the police department.
    Will Cadiz: After leaving SCCC, Cadiz played at Southern Connecticut State University, then professionally in Puerto Rico. He is currently in his 13th year as a sixth grade math teacher. Cadiz states that he travels frequently and plans on traveling the world post retirement from teaching.
    Cedric Pitt: Cedric began his career as a physical education teacher at PS 75 and later worked as Dean. Currently Pitt works for the Madison Square Boys and Girls Club as director of the Sports and Arts Foundation. Pitt says that he also works as a private contractor for Merrill Lynch/Bank of America.
    Terell Kelly: Kelly currently works for Big Apple Sports where he helps underprivileged youth prepare for and gain admission to college.
    Anthony Linton: Lynton is currently married with three children and living in Long Island. He is currently working as a supervisor for a delivery service. Lynton states "Any success I've had in life all started here at Sullivan County Community College."
    Coach Dave Possinger: After leaving SCCC, Coach Possinger worked as a basketball scout for a private company, retiring after 10 years. Possinger then traveled throughout Asia and the Philippines where he met his wife of 10 years, Arlene, who he says "is the love of his life and brings me joy every single day."
    Possinger said that after retiring "for the first time in my life I had nothing to do." It was at this time University of Alabama at Birmingham assistant coach Mike Davis asked Possinger if he wanted to volunteer as an assistant with the team. Davis also asked Possinger to lecture at his summer basketball camp.
    At the camp, Possinger became acquainted with a pair of teens whose parents asked him if he would be willing to individually mentor them. Possinger said that these two children soon became four, then six, then eight and then twelve. He decided to make a business of it, founding Dave Possinger: Basketball Skills Specialist. Currently Possinger is working with four girls and eight boys.
 
Next week we will wrap up the Hall of Fame Class of 2016 with a member of the 1992 Men's Basketball Team, Donald Taylor.
 
By: Simon Clement
 
References
 
Ruiz, Eli.  "Anything's Possinger: SCCC Celebrates First Title Team."  Sullivan County Democrat, 1 March 2013. http://www.scdemocratonline.com/sports/2012March/20/sports3.htm