People in Sports

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Cuba hat opens up conversations I never see coming

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Cuba hat - I was at Meineke Monday afternoon getting my tire pressure checked and equalized in all...

Take me down: Chris Mattioni begins 25th season in...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Lift off to take down - Chris Mattioni, the dean of Cape coaches, begins his 25th year as head...

The first Noelle and second Noelle are both winners

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Dos Noelles - The first Noelle pictured this holiday season is Noelle Sabbagh, just off field...

Sydney Ostroski: A forever champion before a...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Sydney Ostroski - Sydney Ostroski was on four state championship field hockey teams at Cape (2012-...

Every picture tells a story in every race that’s run

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Reason to believe - I capture some great photos of real people. I don’t even know I have the image...

Cape field hockey is my comfort zone, like an old...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Tapestry - I consider myself a dream weaver, part of the fabric of the Cape field hockey team. I’ve...

I am a Yahoo virtual human search engine

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Making the rounds - In the first three days of winter sports practices, I captured photos of...

It’s a school record until others disprove it

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
You disprove it - I sometimes proclaim “Cape school record” and wait for someone else to disprove...

Big hurts and redshirts stepping up and stepping out

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Big hurts and redshirts - Brent Reed (Cape), a 6-foot-6, 252-pound tight end at the University of...

Runner goes down as trainers race to the rescue

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
She wobbled, I waited - No human being on the planet has watched more runners finish races in the...

Go out hard while you still ain’t got no sense

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Scary sight - Imagine 300 middle school boys running fast across a field, all funneling down to a...

Living and running down a dream

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Running down a dream - I lugged my big camera rig to DE Turf Saturday morning to watch a girls’...

Cape cross country teams finish dual-meet season 10-1

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Ten-win seasons - Cape’s cross country teams, boys and girls, closed out their dual-meet seasons...

Kids are naturally inclusive, but adults have to...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Kids are great - Most cultures in the history of the planet didn’t have a separate society called...

Head on a swivel sometimes spills over to the benches

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Facebook - The sports sidelines are all about faces while I’m trying to take pictures of a game. In...

Brett Melson drops 75 pounds, runs first 5K in 20:36

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Go on now, Brett! I spoke to 43-year-old Brett Melson Oct. 12, just 15 minutes before the Ashley...

The Loneliness of Long Distance Runner

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
How you like me now? “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” a short story by Alan Sillitoe,...

A legend of the fall - Seaford coach Ron Dickerson...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Captain Dick - Coach Ron Dickerson passed away Oct. 5. The man known as Captain Dick led the Blue...

All dogs are the greatest dogs

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Citizen syncope - “Mammals, mammals. Their names are called. They raise a paw.” - They Might Be...

Football is a crash and collision sport; sometimes a...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
May the force be with you - A Dover player picked up a fumbled football and changed the direction...

Dane is in the game from jump to touchdown

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
The Water Boy - Dane Harrigan-Ferro is the water boy, ball boy and all-around fixer on the Cape...

Sam Connors is the Crouching Tiger of Cape hockey

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Corners for Connors - Sophomore Samantha Connors is the inserter on corners for the Cape field...

Ronald McDonald is not just some clown, he’s a...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Do the Hustle - I cover the Hustle for the House Ronald McDonald 5K each year because that clown is...

I make snap judgments a thousand times every game

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Startle and shutter reflexes - Tuesday afternoon, I was at periscope depth of field with a 450-...

Two can make a dream so real; two can make a wish...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Deuce it Up - Beware, this may be a theme column. The Lake Forest Invitational at Killens Pond on...

Cape cross country has a long tradition of success

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Cape cross country is cross generational - Cape was a great place to run long before 5Ks, marathons...

We own our milestones: The longer we stay, the more...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Mr. Vice President - I refused to call my friend Jerry McNesby Mr. Vice President, although he is...

Range Rover girl becomes Dr. Amanda Alexander

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Range Rover - I talked to relentless runner Amanda Alexander two years ago about her Range Rover,...

Anonymity by the Sea is a First Amendment right

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Here comes the judge - Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh ran the Dewey Beach Patrol...

Meet on the street: Friends sharing an ocean breeze

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Muppet Alex - Alex Pires and I are age contemporaries. We are not alpha dogs, more like Parliament-...

Facial recognition and casual conversation here on...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Text talk - Nice threads. Ever get a text message “Call me” and mostly we text back, “Why,...

Looking back 20 years with Cape quarterback Jonny...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Jonny Howard - The No H Cape quarterback, wearing his black Big H logo Under Armour shirt, showed...

Person-to-person connection is as real as it gets

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
It got real quick - The Tunnel to Towers 5K Aug. 10 at Cape brought together shared memories and...

Fall season finds a diverse array of Cape athletes...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Fall fashions - This segment features Cape athletes wearing college uniforms across the array of...

Summer runners size you up and shake you down

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Peeps get chicked - Brittany Lang, 21, beat 195 runners to the finish at the Greene Turtle 5K on...

Children circle us like a galaxy of stars

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Heroes and friends - Our heroes form a galaxy of stars, and our stars are children. July 31 was...

Summer wrestling: getting stronger, gaining...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Team Delaware - Let’s talk wrestling, because it’s not running or Little League, lacrosse or...

Camps, competitions and the cost of being a player

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
My school is broken - Eve Parker is 7 years old; her family is new to the Cape district. I asked...

Five Dollar Lax Camp as cool as ice-cold lemonade

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Five Dollar Lax Camp - Quinn Nutter and Shelby Manlove ran a little lacrosse clinic for younger...

Cape lands a gem in ESL teacher Carla Yngve

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Carla cruises to Cape - Cape captured a gem Thursday with the hiring of Carla Phillips Yngve as an...

Bikers bogart the flyways and byways; walking is...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Mosquito Coast - Save the application of Off! and Skin So Soft. Once ravenous marsh-side mosquitoes...

Muppets are the serious players behind Cape’s...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
One Mississippi, two Mississippi - I’m at home among football guys. They are intense, yet they make...

Country is kookoo for Coco Gauff

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Kookoo for Coco - I watched the improbable comeback win July 5 in the third round of Wimbledon as...

A coach talking the talk shows spiritual strength...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Alvontae Drummond - A born-to-coach personality type, Alvontae wrestled for Milford (2013 state...

Quietly charismatic coach Big Aug Micelli taught 60...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Big Aug - Teacher/coach Augustine Micelli passed away June 29 at the age of 85. “Big Aug” taught...

Vezmar of Milford barefoots Hospice Hotfoot 5K

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Hotfoot Hospice - David Vezmar, 45, lives in Milford, so it wasn’t much of a jaunt for him to...

Elephant towers over the herd at Jungle Jim’s 5K

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Billy and Uncle Bill - Young Billy Lingo, all-state attack on Cape’s lacrosse state championship...

Reds Spirit Award winners found on 20-year-old...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Reds Spirit Award - Aurelio “Reds” Maestri emigrated to Lewes from Austria in the late 1940s at the...

Kids are naturally cool don’t ask them to perform

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Kids are cool - Someone once said to me, “little kids seem to like you, Fredman. Why is...

Cape boys’ lacrosse players go hard and you can...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Simply the best - I have been saying this over the last 25 years: “The Cape boys’ lacrosse team is...

Bloodied warrior Matt Prestipino all about the grit...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Draw blood - Matt Prestipino, a senior long pole dirty worker on Cape’s lacrosse team, was floating...

Summer sports stories take over as schools shut down

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Shut down scribe - Scholastic sports take a rest for a couple of summer months as they have the...

Protection of runners becoming cost-prohibitive

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
The Great Schnozzola - Jimmy Durante, a vaudevillian comedian and radio and TV personality from the...

I never liked fishing with the fleet; I’m an obtuse...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Most goals attract most reporters - The Cape win over Archmere May 29 took a long time. When...

Hands across the generations, the connectedness of...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Hank and Luke - Hank and Luke D’Ambrogi, Cape lacrosse players, were mildly surprised when walking...

In shared realities of sports, sometimes we see the...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Players of the Game - I create my own realities, and most times there are other people inside my...

Fast Times at Sussex Central High; sprinters snap...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Five fast guys - The Sussex Central boys’ track team won both sprint relays in the Division I State...

Lindsay and Lopez last girls to play goalie for boys...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Dos porteros - The Beacon boys’ lacrosse team finished the season 8-0-1 and never gave up more than...

Get the shot and the story will follow

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Got it! But missed it! Fleet-footed Alia Marshall scored her 100th career lacrosse goal on the...

Great-grandfathers on game day, hands across the...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Captain and Chief - The connections are there, but you have to see them, and you have to know the...