People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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Everyday people inspire others every day

Dave Frederick
1 day ago
Rules of Engagement - I arrived at Dover High Jan. 8 to photograph the Cape girls’ basketball game...

Smyrna wrestling showed sportsmanship in sudden loss...

Dave Frederick
5 days ago
Part of the game - The Cape wrestling team beat Smyrna in the Big House 34-33 Jan. 9 for the first...

Caruso is a good guy who wants to be a teacher/coach

Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Choir boy - I sat down with Cape wrestler Anthony Caruso Tuesday morning at Cape, deciding not to...

Destiny’s Child leads the Eagles to New Orleans to...

Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Destiny’s Child - “We” do not control our own destiny, because fate is predetermined. Nick Foles to...

Postcards from the Fred: Players are primetime...

Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Postcards from the Fred - This column, “People in Sports,” has been here for 37 years. Sometimes it...

High-performance two-sport athlete Jamie Schirmer...

Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Big Diesel Cat - Jamie Schirmer is a Sussex Tech senior and homegrown citizen of the 684. He weighs...

The Beast of the East is an absolute bear

Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
Skin in the game -The Beast of the East wrestling tournament contested at the University of...

My cat was away in a manger, but later he came back

Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
Christmas column - My tomcat had a case of the manger once, so he wouldn’t come in from the barn...

Cape girls’ basketball teams’ combined 134-4 score...

Dave Frederick
4 weeks ago
Task force talk - No trash talk, no tough talk and no character-building seminars. Someone up the...

Cape Big House rocks with impact players outside the...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Impact player - Luke Williams rolled into Cape as “the new kid,” and because of the junior’s...

Get up and give back, Sean Mann directs Mariner...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Walk like a Mann - Sean Mann, head coach of Mariner wrestling and former heavyweight at Cape,...

Runners and wrestlers are a tough breed who go at it...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Crash cart - Ron Carpenter, 69, of Hudson, Mont. (not the 6-foot-7 Cape basketball guy from the ’...

John Collins and service dog Mahi show respect...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Head on a swivel - I call the gym at Sussex Central “The Happy House” after the Golden Knights won...

Downstate football doubles down at Delaware

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Double down at Delaware - My journalist colleagues from the News Journal, Brad Myers and Kevin...

In Delaware sports history, we are all related to...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Connections - Jeremy and Josh Bushweller are twins who played on the Dover football team that beat...

Running kids love the game and just endure the pain

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Pain management - An incredible number of young athletes under 13 are showing up in 5K races...

Americans don’t need a holiday excuse to overeat

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Cold turkey - I miss being crazy and running in freezing weather that’s so windy and cold it...

Cape hockey family rocked by passing of Bill Windett...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
A Prayer for Bill Windett - On Nov. 14, the extended Cape hockey family lost Bill Windett, husband...

Signing day is a single step in the right direction

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Signing Day - Each signing day, I take photos of ceremonial signings by students who commit by...

Sports and society is a two-way mirror of life...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Turn on those sad songs - The rhythm of the falling rain poured down over Cape’s Senior Night Nov...

Cape quarterback connections reach across the cosmos

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Cosmic Cape quarterback connections - Quarterback Merek Harrigan-Ferro wears No. 5 and reminds me...

Capturing the good in all of us under the Friday...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Auto Focus - The national anthem plays before a game, and I remove my headgear and my camera...

Fun and success mesh with competitive spirit for...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Cosmic Razzmatazz - Cape field hockey is heading into another state tournament next week, and there...

Autism Awareness Week includes the captains circle...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Shelter in place - I show up super early for sports assignments, then I just hang out in my 4Runner...

Walk tall and carry a measuring wheel

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Walking Tall - I was sitting in my 14-year-old 4Runner at Browns Branch County Park off Killens...

Magic Jack, built like an acrobat, hits 5K trail run...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Magic Jack Noel - Jack, an actual magician, finished the Bethel Trail Run 5K in 43:24 on his 80th...

Gobbledygook: the language used to deflect realities...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Robust club teams - Gobbledygook is a word I reserve for academics who throw shade on sensitive...

Philly photographer on the road, the coach takes my...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Ghost town - This is the only photo in existence with all three Dave Fredericks in it. The...

Jack McPike to be honorary captain for Cape...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Healing Hands - The Cape football team of 2018 has reached back a decade to touch tradition and to...

Cagey Coverdale still a closer on the field hockey...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Cagey Coverdale - Erin Coverdale is the most unlikely-looking assassin on the hockey field, and off...

Rules of engagement - Conor unfurls banner to...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Peyton’s place - I’m the gramps guy taking thousands of finish photos at the Dogfish Dash,...

Halftime walk to locker room through hot dog line...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Deuce it up - It’s not easy for a young football player to walk through the hot dog crowd at...

Comcast to Coach Fred 37 years and a minute late

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Coach and Comcast - A Comcast technician stepped out of his truck onto my driveway 37 years and one...

Everybody knows somebody at Taste of Sposato 5K run

3 months ago
Everybody knows your name - Daisy Hughes is the face everyone knows at a saturated Sunday morning...

Checking out sports practices to get a sense of it all

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Go to what I know - I’ve been sportswriter for 36 years, and it’s been a 42 years since I coached a...

Sports mirror life in a happy to sad haphazard pattern

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Rough patch - Cape football left the bus barn for the 2018 season and has encountered a pair...

Darby Klopp glitters like gold, upping everyone’s game

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Girl Scout Gold Award - “You got gold, gold inside of you, well I got some, gold inside me too.” -...

Lilly Barnett is a story we share, an image that...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Keeping composure - I caught it as I lost it down in Delmar Friday night, sitting on the...

Riley and Rylie meet at Seattle cannabis convention

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
The Enforcer - Riley Cote played eight years in the NHL, including four as a left winger for the...

Keep on dancing and a-prancing, Warshauers married...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Keep on dancing - I photographed Rich Warshauer as he finished the Last Blast Prediction 5K on Sept...

Biscuit Bobby Knox was a 1,000-yard rusher for Cape...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Hard Knox - That’s a good way to describe the Cape running back that friends and teammates called...

Kids are cool, so step back with your big helium...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Who am I, Art Linkletter? - Art wrote a series of books, “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” based on...

Pancake blocks and driving defenders like a rented...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Assessing, not guessing - Cape head football coach J.D. Maull can talk all day about the five...

Athletes often Rise to meet the moment without...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Rise to the occasion - Ryan Peters, in 90 pounds of jump gear, was escorted by his wife Amanda...

Dave Truitt of Lewes honored with his own Blue Rocks...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Quiet and classy - A round corner table at the Rehoboth Beach Country Club, the Rehoboth Bay as a...

Best Buddies 5K puts the perspective on friendship

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Best Buddies - Making new buddies at the Best Buddies 5K held Aug. 12 at Dewey Beach Lions Club...

The bond is unbroken between coaches Maull and Glenn

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Relentlessness - Cape football coach JD Maull spent the week at Coastal Carolina with his Cape...

Harry K Foundation feeds hungry kids of Delaware

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Harry K Foundation and hungry kids - I’ve seen high school kids miss lunch due to an emergency...

Young athletes at old school keep community connected

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Young guy and old school - My old high school, Bishop Egan, and Cape, where I taught for 29 years,...

Robin Adair steps off as Tower Hill’s head coach of...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Robin retires - Coach Robin Adair has retired as head coach of field hockey at Tower Hill School...