People in Sports

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Legends Stadium inductions set for Friday night

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Dropping the F words - Fall foliage, the flora and fauna colorized, young thinclads running down a...

Cape’s greatest running back in the Homecoming house

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
The Pennant - Yo, Skippy! Get up on outta there! Bryce Harper was in the zone, fouling off pitches...

Lonnie Maull: a student and a sprinter who is gone...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Lonnie Maull - Sometimes nicknamed “Train,” Lonnie left this earth for the greater universe Oct. 11...

Ready to fade into my own parade

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Battle of Route 9 - Sussex Central football plays at Cape Henlopen Friday night and it’s Homecoming...

Great kids just enhance everyone’s game

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Great kid - The best ringing endorsement of a school-aged athlete is when coaches and teachers say...

Styles and Silver Fox Fields has nice alliteration

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Styles and Silver Fox Fields - The Cape Henlopen campus now has two ball fields named after local...

Philly now giddy city, but soft pretzels quickly go...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Giddy City - Philly doesn’t wear success all that well, because sports fans talk too much too soon...

A head coach should be gracious, not dismissive of...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Thanks, Coach! I’m not a fan of network sideline interviews with the coach on their way into the...

Middle school sports a venue to perfect stop-and...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Hockey dads - I took a sports holiday Wednesday, so I decided to check out the Sussex Academy at...

Looking down on 1,000 Dogfish dashers and prancers

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Painter’s ladder - I stood on the top step (or step two) of what some call a stepstool but I call a...

Athlete verbal commitments are contractually non...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Magic Mikey - I posted a photo of Mikey in a Michigan shirt holding a lacrosse stick 10 years ago...

Tunnel to Towers is a time to look, listen and learn

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
General assessment - The Tunnel to Towers 3.43-mile run at Fort Miles inside Cape Henlopen State...

Pentagonal cross country meet at Sandhill Fields

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Euclidean geometry - Ptolemy and gone tomorrow. Teach for transfer, don’t bother reluctant learners...

Ian Fleming runs Bottle & Cork 10-Miler inspired by...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Take it to the bridge - Silver Lake Bridge leading into Rehoboth in the early morning is a...

Big guys driven by faith who can hit

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Zippity dippity - The Dips of Franklin & Marshall College defeated the visiting Captains of...

Upside and downside of sports an emotion ride...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Ella Shockley - A freshman for West Chester University field hockey, straight out of Delmar and...

Playing time and parents – just don’t step over the...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Stepping over the line - Players on teams don’t want to watch the game from the sidelines. Stepping...

Synthetic turf temperatures get stupid hot on August...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Billy Goat Gruff - I am not trolling the operators of the trash-sucking Billy Goat machines in...

Take it to the bounce house of bonding

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Team bonding - Champions Stadium rocks 25 state championship signs – 13 in lacrosse and 12 in field...

Fluffy the wrestler blazes his first 5K in 28 minutes

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Fluffy Flores - A wise word of advice when addressing a 6-foot-6, 270-pound former heavyweight...

Training wheels and sports traditions across the...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Training wheels - Two trainers in a green gator go rolling around Cape’s campus on an early August...

Strong friends stay tethered together for a lifetime

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Silver Anniversary Run for JJ 5K - Girlfriends since forever, having grown up in Rehoboth describes...

Wrestling ring ceremony at Fish On! – I was the...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Ring ceremony - The Cape wrestling team held its ring ceremony at Fish On! at Five Points Aug. 8,...

Runner’s forward lean is a warning sign ... ‘going...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Forward lean - No one has seen more forward leans of struggling runners shuffling toward the finish...

Bill Cordrey honored: I will call it Silver Fox Field

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Silver Fox Field - The softball field at Cape is now named Bill Cordrey Field. The request was made...

Men in tights must wear shorts sailing over the high...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Bob Neylan - Henlopen Conference track coaches from my era of the mid-‘70s to mid-‘80s included Jim...

Tooth Fairy is a champion of children’s choppers

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Tooth Fairy - Ainsley Schneider came over to the table under the canopy at Champions Field Hockey...

Relative of the Week: Ergas Leps, Canadian Olympian...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Relative of the Week - Back in the days of the Wednesday Whale newspaper, I ran a weekly feature in...

Relentless racers push the envelope at Tuesday night...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Nobody gets a trophy - Tuesday night’s open track meet at Cape “looked like fun,” said the man in...

Memories flood Bill Degnan 5K’s silver anniversary

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Silver back - “New friends are silver and old friends are gold.” Sunday was the 25th running of the...

Cactus to practice, Freds jet back from desert to...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Cactus to practice - Cape Henlopen head football coach Mike Frederick and Cape Gazette Emeritus Man...

Next year is now for scholastic sports 2022-23

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Cool runnings - Ricky Brokaw, 24, a Cape kid, won his age group and finished eighth overall at the...

Stanford and Xander in the sands of Rehoboth

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Hello Stanford in the sand - I caught Aya Daisey's photo as she ran across the sand at Sunday’s...

Sports booster moms run banquets, capture the memories

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Booster Moms of the Western World - Sports banquets with programs, scrapbooks, trophies and gifts...

From the archives: Fredman bruised and battered,...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
I survived a rollover accident July 5, 1999. A day later, I wrote the following column with purple...

Play like it matters, but if you’re 12, it doesn’t

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Wells quells yells - The Sunday morning club-a-dub-dub, steamy showdown between 2027 lacrosse girls...

‘Life is too short not to be an Italian’

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Goose is gone - A man in the stands at a Ravens game 25 years ago wore a T-shirt that read: “Life...

Football all-star games are struggling for players...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Father’s Day 5K - The 32nd annual Father’s Day 5K was run in Rehoboth Sunday morning with 252...

Highway One 5K to the stranger zone

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Stride on by - On Memorial Day weekend, 5K runners ran past my camera during the 20th Highway One...

Community policing at Sesame Street by the Sea

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Community policing - The Silver Lake bridge was Tranquility Base. I was kicking it off the bumper...

The sad eyes of injured athletes reveal the hurt...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Sad eyes - Injured athletes have sad eyes like a locked-down lab on a rainy day. The jointed and...

Rewards, awards and time to get along, little doggies

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Cross-street cousins - Ella Rishko and Mikey Frederick are first cousins and senior classmates who...

Lacrosse umpire Jill Fitzcharles retires after 35...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Umpire retires - Jill Fitzcharles, who has been a referee for women's lacrosse for 35 years,...

Deals with a deity for sports outcomes are just...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Deal with the deity - Here’s my deal, Lord – if you can deliver a win in this championship game, I...

Mikey Frederick hits double 100 milestone

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Magic Mikey - Mik ey Frederick scored his 100th career lacrosse goal May 19 at Legends Stadium...

I know more than most, but miss more than ever

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Cleaning house - Sussex Academy’s Sadie Tunnell was Henlopen Conference champion in the 400-meter...

DIAA girls’ lacrosse semis to be played at Delaware...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Delaware State lacrosse - Jeff Savage, a former athletic director and softball coach at Delaware...

That’s good enough, because nothing compares to you

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Habitrails to you - I call it running the hamster wheel to nowhere, the quest to be the best, but...

Kelly and Davey are inclusive friends who know what...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
A magic moment - Senior Night for girls’ lacrosse was held at Champions Stadium May 6. It was the...

Cape lacrosse alumni gather for moments of reflection

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Alumni game - Coach Lou Norbeck, a former Cape football and lacrosse coach, and history teacher...

Seining the river of sports looking for good stuff...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Starbursting - This is a catchall column with just too many things coming at me too fast, not the...

Joy to the World rocks Cape Unified track team

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Showboat - Davey Frederick runs the 100 meters for Cape’s Unified team. He grew up around sports,...

Dave Robinson passes away but forever friends always...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Friends are forever - A close friend, Dr. Dave Robinson, who moved inside the concentric circles of...

Sports on the beach are postcard perfect

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Postcard perfect - Cape’s lacrosse girls hosted a Holy Thursday Easter Egg Hunt and skills...

Runners rumble, rock the boards at Bunny Palooza

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Thunder Road - No one has sat in a blue chair and watched more oncoming race traffic through a...

Cape volleyball is a solidly good team, and fans...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Gramps Interruptus - My talent is that no matter what or how much I’m doing, I always look like I’m...

Bobblehead giveaway days better than fat heads in...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Bobblehead giveaway - Checking the Phillies’ upcoming schedule, I see the team plays at the Dodgers...

Sussex nicknames require explanation of the derivation

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Bullet Train - Keishawn Mansfield brought home the bacon Tuesday on the Legends Stadium track,...

Pop pop and the four-way stop; blinking red confuses...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Knocking about - There is a band from Madison, Wis., called the Red Hot Horn Dogs. I was thinking...

Articulation of academics and athletics is tricky...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Grandma’s house - “I stay with my Grandma.” Looking back at a history of forfeited high school...