People in Sports

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Wrestlers have to learn and earn their way to...

Dave Frederick
3 days ago
Learn it and earn it - Most athletes who wrestle are not four-time state champions. In fact...

‘Mattioni’s Men’ place second at Grapple at the Brook

Dave Frederick
6 days ago
Grapple A-Go-Go - The Cape wrestling team had a good two-day tournament this past weekend that...

Men in black and giving back

Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Men in Black - The undefeated Milford Academy Middle School boys’ basketball team hit the Central...

Fleeing the mat to avoid takedown is a judgment call

Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Fleeing the mat - Carson Kammerer lost a 9-7 decision to Ryan McKelvey of Delaware Military Academy...

He’s got the whole world in his hands

Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Eye of an artist - I don’t photograph sunsets, streetscapes, moonrises, wildlife, weddings...

Vikings right tackle Brian O’Neill is a Sallies guy

Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Storylines in the water - You’re out fishing with the fleet when the trout are running. You have...

Rehoboth and Bethany Boardwalks have gone to the dogs

Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
Go Pro Yo - I am a human Go Pro on the sports beat. I can spot the athletes who are players before...

Coach Jim Alderman staring down serious surgery

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Coach Jim Alderman - An alpha dog running up a great dune. That big ol’ boy, a Lineman for Life, is...

Family Friday night at Cape’s Big House

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
High flyers - Cape alumni Randy Rickards, Jon Warren and Jordan Howell were at the Cape Big House...

Cape connections across the generations at The Big...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Mackenzie Irelan - A Cape senior wrestling manager and all-around stellar student, a bonnie lass...

Good coaching is worth its weight in gold at any level

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Coach connections - I snuck this snap of Seashore Striders coach Tim Bamforth with talented runner...

Rudeness is a self-reflection, revealing lameness of...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Punks and perspective - Davey Fred, the Inclusion Kid, is a bona fide player on the high school...

Field of 2,600 marathon runners springs from a sea...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Weirdly unexplainable - Some 2,600 brightly colored runners sprang from the sea at sunrise Saturday...

Cuba hat opens up conversations I never see coming

Dave Frederick
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
2 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months ago
Team Delaware - Let’s talk wrestling, because it’s not running or Little League, lacrosse or...