People in Sports

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Anniversaries and championship seasons bring the...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Numbers game - I always say numbers track your life, and if you say them out loud, one of two...

Cape, Sussex Academy win relay state titles in...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Freaky Friday - The Cape Henlopen 4-by-800-meter relay team ran a one-heat Division I final May 19...

We’re talking about practice, not a game

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Spring strafing - I sometimes do a touch-and-go late-afternoon flyover, landing at sports practices...

Smiling on the way down is the champion’s way to fall

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Sundown smile - Bailey Fletcher cleared the pole vault bar at 14-feet-6-inches May 12 at...

A little girl from a fairy tale showed up in my world

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
The Children's Playground - The lacrosse game was over Monday night as the sun dropped out to the...

Lewes responders rescue runner who collapsed close...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Rescued runner - A half-marathoner had to be jump-started a half-mile from the finish line Saturday...

Telling tales while chasing my tail

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Telling tales while chasing my tail - You know you're slow when you are 18 hours away from catching...

Hudson Fields is a back-home beacon, everyone’s...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Hudson Fields - A surreal and magical place; it’s the back-home beacon when heading south on Route...

Mark Schaeffer is Sesame Street by the Sea’s tribute...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Tribute Man - If there is a tribute-issuing muppet here at Sesame Street by the Sea, it is Sussex...

Oy Vey 5K a Sunday morning friendly race

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Oy Vey 5K - Leaving from the Seaside Jewish Community Center along Holland Glade Road April...

‘Let the Sun Shine In,’ amazing grace is all around us

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Go Gabby! My best photos are accidental. On Tuesday, I captured Cape’s Gabrielle Parillon running...

Cape girls’ lax earns big win at Broadneck

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Looking for trouble - The Cape girls’ lacrosse team crossed the Bay Bridge April 15, looking at the...

Spring break is over; it’s time to resume high...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Gimme a break - “Break me off a piece of that KitKat bar.” Break the ears off the bunny rabbit and...

The peloton had a mind of its own; racing is an...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Kiddie City - Among the gatherings of children on Easter weekend, the Bunny Palooza 5K in Bethany...

Googlers gonna get you; you have run out the boogie man

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Googlelopolis - Rhymes with Snuffleupagus, an imaginary muppet we could all see. Years ago, there...

Cape should hang a championship banner in wrestling...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Just plain weird - There were 48 wrestling teams at the March state championships at Cape Henlopen...

A simple ‘good job’ goes a long way in the sports...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
A simple “good job” - I photographed the Caravel at Milford Middle School boys’ lacrosse game March...

Managers bust loose in Friday night lacrosse victory

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Jazzman - “Jazzman take my blues away with every change you play” - Carole King. I take photos and...

Old war horse inspired by young athletes every day

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Know the story, know the person - Left-handed Cape lacrosse goalie Michael Sposato moved from...

Flop and Slop - Fosbury and Jacobs were high-jumping...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Flop and Slop - Dick Fosbury, originator of the back-first high jump known as the Fosbury Flop and...

Fast-walking Adele Wagner circles 5K course in 31:25

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Groucho walking - Back when I put together a streak of walking a hundred miles a month for five...

Salesianum brings Broom Street to winter sports

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Broom Street - Salesianum is on Broom Street in Wilmington, just turn right at the liquor...

Adria Windish and Sam Mincey show Cape’s Got Talent

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Bringing the Big House down - Cape’s Adria Windish brought the wrestling crowd to its collective...

Cruising and perusing fields of dreams and seams

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Cruising and perusing - I carry my camera onto the lacrosse practice field with my head on...

Jaden Messick enjoys birthday 16 running the track...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Ain’t that tough enough? Jaden Messick, a sophomore, wore No. 1 in football as a 160-pound...

Two-day wrestling tournaments draw blood, scatter...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Indoor cat - I spent two days inside the Milford Central Academy gym covering the Henlopen...

Sponge blob scribe where the rubber meets the blubber

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Smelling the sweat - The Henlopen Conference wrestling championships are Friday and Saturday, Feb...

Local lacrosse players lighting up the college...

Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Take me to your feeder - Atlantic Lacrosse and later the Eastern Shore Lacrosse Club harnessed...

Fredgirl met hall of famers and didn’t know it

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Fredgirl story - A decade ago (could have been longer), I was sitting in the press box overlooking...

Vikings videographers Maddie and Jocelyn capture...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Vikings videographers - I obstructed the sightline of Cape sophomores Maddie Elphick and Jocelyn...

Track and field attracts an array of personality types

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Squirrels gonna be squirrely - I had to go into Cape High to get a photo of three pole vaulters –...

Iceberg lettuce heads are the poltergeists of...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Layered player - I was five sheets to the cold wind Saturday morning, layered up and parked nose-in...

Golden anniversary of Cape’s girls’ basketball state...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Golden Anniversary - Cape Henlopen won the first Delaware state championship contested for girls 33...

Andy Reid will stare into a sideline that didn’t...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Yo Chiefs! Andy Reid showed up for sportswriter Larry O’Rourke’s ALS fundraiser at Chickie &...

Hand jive and hambone are flip sides of creative...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Crazy Hand Jive - I know a cat named “Way Out Willie” who did the crazy hand jive. The hand jive is...

Cape wrestles Central at the Castle on Wednesday night

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Focus groups - Cape will wrestle at unbeaten Sussex Central Wednesday, Jan. 25, with JV bouts...

Soccer coach Gary Montalto receives national award,...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Soccer professor - Gary Montalto is on the spectrum of soccer coaches; he sees things before they...

Sonic trash trucks rolling the roads of Sussex County

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Sonic trash truck - I was meeting with my nephew Mike last Friday and we were discussing the...

Lanelle Hearn leaves legacy of the stained-glass cross

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Stained-glass cross - Lanelle Hearn was a Bethel Methodist preschool stained-glass soul searcher...

Cape winter track at ease like an Ocean Breeze

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Cranapple Games - Cape winter/indoor track has always chased the competition going back 50 years...

Pleasant weather means all athletes are in season

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Pleasant like a pheasant - I trucked around the Cape campus Tuesday afternoon like a fair-weather...

Action News means get off the couch and out of the...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Action News - The big story on Action News is not the retirement of broadcaster Jim Gardner, Trump’...

Snoop: Shizzle my nizzle! Drop it like it’s hot!

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Reflexology - Fred family members roared through the kitchen door on Christmas morning led by Davey...

Nobody taught me the Electric Slide ... where was I?

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Electric Slide Syndrome - I first noticed it back in the late 1980s while sitting at a round table...

Sharing stories in coastal Sussex is a cultural pastime

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
One-on-one - The song by Daryl Hall and John Oates, a couple of Temple guys, contains lots of...

Xfinity to infinity thinking about eternity

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Unsung, not unappreciated - Solid sports programs have a depth of athletes usually divided into two...

Big House rocks from the jump all night long

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Yo, Adria - Judging by both sides of the bleachers being pulled all the way out, a major match was...

Run with a Santa state of mind

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Run with Santa - Skinny Santas run 5K races; fat Santas deadlift crates of Chistmas oranges looking...

Clearing out the clutter of too much sports data

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Temptations - “Keep on walking and don’t look back.” Sports, over a bevy of years,...

History in the midst of hallways and trailways

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Hall pass - I’m sitting on a barstool in a drizzle along Flag Alley taking photos of thousands of...

3,000 runners will share the trails on marathon...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Lewes to Rehoboth - I am credited with being a co-founder of the Lewes Marathon along with John...

We are the champions and friends

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Three equals six - I saw three state championship guys talking among themselves Saturday at the...

Delmar Wildcats hockey a buzzsaw with claws

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Ran into a buzzsaw - That sports term (not shop class) is used mostly in tournament wrestling when...

The fantasy league inside your own head

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
My Pillow - The graying heads of athletes and coaches hit their pillows at night where...

Just another plaque on the wall

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
The Room - All in all, it's just another plaque on the wall. Last season, I wanted it for Mikey,...

Danny Mitchell leaves behind a legacy of funny stories

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Speakers of the House - I took a photo of Danny Mitchell and Pete Schwartzkopf at the Rehoboth Fire...

Lost my shoes but found memories in a cardboard box

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Strangeness of life - I lost a pair of New Balance size 13 Quad E sneakers somewhere in my house. I...

Brenn Scott a two-step athlete, a football and...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
One step, two step - Brenn Scott was a sophomore catcher on Cape’s 2022 state championship baseball...

Bus driver Fred Harvey enjoys private lacrosse ring...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Ring ceremony - After the Senior Night field hockey game versus Caesar Rodney Oct. 25, the Cape...

Make sports history sharable, get your own column

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Crooked numbers - Life moves on, we put up numbers, they track us like mission control. When you...