People in Sports

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Olivia Weir cartwheels all the way into Big 10

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Nine to Big Ten - As a 9-year-old, Olivia Weir cartwheeled across the finish line in a 5K in...

Athletes know athletes and respect performance...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Athletes know athletes - Socially distanced Cape cheerleaders had their own section of home...

Indoor track held outside in weather that’s not that...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Indoor/outdoors - An indoor track meet held outdoors Jan. 22 on Cape’s Legends Stadium track...

Some streamers are dreamers who forget to hit the...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
You there? - The answer to that texted question is always, yes, I am here; otherwise, I would have...

Old-school basketball and community connections

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Who rocks the house? - J-Roc rocks the house. Ja’Vaughn Burton is Eastern Basketball League early...

Tail over teakettle while keeping pace with fast...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Tail over teakettle - Cape’s Curtis Purnell (2018) returns a kickoff on a Friday...

Winter sports contests begin with one fan per...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Side door - I’m about to wade into the hot tub of indoor sports coverage. I take photos and...

Pointed moment: 40 years ago, student Richard...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Mainstreamed man - Most days are yesterday to me. I am in high school with my students, and before...

Cape sports culture changes as home prices zoom into...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
An all-time offensive line - 2014-15: Tyre Maull, Julius Tyler, Devin Miller, Brandon...

Steve Snell was Cape’s Golden Richards in 1986

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Golden Richards - Steve Snell was the Golden Richards (Cowboys, Bears, Broncos) of Cape football,...

Wily Coyote quarterbacks at their best under pressure

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Wily Coyotes - The old guys playing quarterback lit it up early Christmas weekend in the...

White heat runners and black heat hurlers

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
White heat - On a sun-drenched day in the summer of 2007, two blond white guys ran a barefoot...

Central casting coaches are a cadre of homegrown...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Central casting - If your ball cap is not on the last notch, you are probably not on the Sussex...

Winter track at Cape a 50-year tradition

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Winter track - There is a tradition of winter/indoor track at Cape going back 50 years and...

Dawned on me late in the day – sports is irony in...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Senior citizens - The senior class of Cape field hockey players includes just six athletes: Julie...

Straight-jacketed in a goose-down vest

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Busman’s holiday - The term alludes to a bus driver who spends his day off taking a long bus ride,...

Buster and Nancy Neeman, two good sides with a field...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Buster and Nancy - Field hockey officials Buster and Nancy Neeman refereed...

Sky looked like swirling nun spirits seeking me for...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Stormy Monday - It was late for me, showing up 30 minutes early for the 4:30 p.m. Henlopen...

Coach Matt Lindell, the sock puppet of Cape cross...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Screensocked - I was talking with veteran professional journalists Andy Walter and Marc Clery of...

Turkey bowls and trots and gobbles are suspended...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Turkey Bowls - The Coolspring tackle football Thanksgiving Day morning Turkey Bowl game ran...

Bill Jackson, a Philly to Lewes sports guy, passes...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Swoosh! Swoosh! Big-time sports friend of mine Bill Jackson, a Philly/Lewes guy like me, passed...

Emily Uffelman comes back from Lyme to run cross...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Lyme disease - Shouting out the word “lime” evokes sensory memories of Frank's soda or the...

Jack McPike, the handsome Cape quarterback from 2010...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Quarterback Jack - Jack McPike, the handsome Cape quarterback and basketball player and affable...

Trust and Respect runs deep through the sports...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Trust - I found out the news five minutes before I received a voicemail that simply said, “...

Race between the raw bar and the brewing company

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
SoDel Cares 5K and Mile Walk - It was a beautiful socially distanced morning for an in-person race...

Postcard-perfect race: Let the images do the talking

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Patriot Games - Running a 5K around the perimeter of the Cape campus during a pandemic is on the...

‘Everybody is a Trophy’ wins the creativity prize

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Theme park - The Cape hockey team showed up for Halloween practice at Champions Stadium Oct. 30 and...

Picture postcard perfect cross country at Polytech

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Postcard perfect - The cross country meet at Polytech High School Oct. 28 in Woodside was run on a...

Cape hockey rolling from harvest toward hunter’s moon

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Hockey by quarters - A season where the clock has gone from two 30-minute halves to four 15-minute...

Lose with dignity, win with zoom class

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Emotionally spent - The weather report is brought to you by Calzones and AutoZone. October...

Social distance running and thundering herd immunity

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Thundering herd - Social distance running shrouded by fall foliage, the bigger high school cross...

Cape is a community of athletes and artists

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Artistry and athletics - Remember the dreaded game of Pictionary? It’s weird, I have a type of...

Say hello and act like you know the players

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
New kid on the block - At cross country practice, I called out “Hey, Andrew!” He is sophomore...

Wild wild nights when the green was grass, three...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Wild Wild Nights - Four score, five years and three high schools ago, Bill Collick and I were new...

Mayor Al Stango and the Lewes Marathon

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Spaghetti every Friday - I interviewed Bob Fletcher in 1983 about his book “...

Coaches often magnetize the marginalized

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Coach in the building - Let’s just go back through 50 years of Cape high school sports and...

Sports fans: Everybody’s watching everybody else

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Lumbering along - Sunday was a long day’s journey into the night for Fruity Fred Pop. I’d...

Hand over the heart and quiet reverence always shows...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
The Wright stuff - Took this photo of Kolbi Wright before a Cape football game in...

Seven on Seven lacrosse full speed on half field

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Seven on seven - I was at DE Turf Sunday night taking photos of a half-field, seven-on-...

Local muppets and families bonded for a lifetime...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Diamond in the rough - Point to point across the diamond from home plate to straight-away center, I...

Sunday morning coming down at Champions Stadium

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Masking the problem - “How are you little bandits doing?” On Sunday morning, I cruised around the...

Last-word syndrome dominates discourse on social media

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Outworked - It is easy to outwork people in the sports arena, from playing to coaching to being a...

Lee ‘Doc’ Masser dies at 84, closing chapter of an...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
I’m about half - “How are you feeling?” “I’m about half.” Not sure what that expression means. It’s...

Legendary sports figures Thompson and Seaver pass away

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Young Tracy - Tracy Jones Jr. shared a photo of himself with legendary Georgetown University...

Watermel Run 5K in Laurel showcases a downstate...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Sisterhood - My day at the Watermel Run 5K Aug. 30 began at 7 a.m. in Laurel at Janosik...

“You don’t cut nobody, you ain’t no doctor”

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Zing go the strings - A Cape football lineman in 1987 grabbed the back of his leg before...

Second checker! Muppet Mike Toohey leaves the...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Second checker! Each and every time I saw Mike Toohey over the last 35 years, I’d say, “Second...

Money is its own reward; for some it beats recognition

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Speeding Belltown Bullet - This Bullet's name was Kevin, not to be confused with Kyle. There are a...

The difference between a milestone and a millstone...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Moving through Milestones - Big Mike Donovan, a 6-foot-8 former Marine and a bit of a wild child,...

Fosters and field hockey and tumbling cheerleaders

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Four Paws and Southern Draw - Cape field hockey coach Kate Windett Austin is a Grass Roots Rescue...

Mishearing is a step away from misspeaking and...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Nikita Khrushchev - Tampa Bay Lightning winger Nikita Khrushchev was on a breakaway but was stoned...

Sesame Street by the Sea featuring buckets of muppets

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Cape is a concept and a place - I met Cape baseball coach Ben Evick outside the fence at Champions...

Athletes pursue their own passion, they cannot be...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Passion to Play - The 2019 girls’ lacrosse season began practice missing the Killer Vs, Vienna...

Ricky Santos and Chip Kelly lit it up at Delaware...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Hey Ricky! “Oh Ricky, you’re so fine, you’re so fine, you blow my mind, Hey Ricky, hey Ricky. ” –...

Academics balanced by sports is a false equivalence

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
False equivalencies - There are no physical requirements to earn a seat in an honors or Advanced...

Cape’s wrestling managers worth their weight in gold

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
High school cool - I have much respect for team managers. I have always been that guy since I was a...

Big Train Trugman retires from Amtrak to Lewes

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Trugman’s Train Trip - Neil Trugman, the chief investigating officer for Amtrak, retires to Lewes...

Coach Cutty rocks the bald head look; jokes ...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Pandemic got me - Coach Gilbert “Cutty” Maull goes back to the Cape days when Bill Muehleisen...

Coach Jim Alderman passes away in Florida at age 77

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Coach Alderman - In late summer 1976, Rehoboth Beach lifeguards Bill Collick and Fredman had been...

Alpha dogs don’t bite; Alderman players say ‘Thank...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Alpha dogs don’t bite - A symmetry of sadness I want to share. My brother Tom died Nov. 28. His...