People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

Email Fredman at fredman@capegazette.com

Looking down on 1,000 Dogfish dashers and prancers

Dave Frederick
1 day 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
5 days 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
1 week 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
1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Zippity dippity - The Dips of Franklin & Marshall College defeated the visiting Captains of...

Upside and downside of sports an emotion ride...

Dave Frederick
3 weeks 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
3 weeks 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
4 weeks 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
3 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
4 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months 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
5 months ago
Grandma’s house - “I stay with my Grandma.” Looking back at a history of forfeited high school...

200 young kids cuckoo for clinics on Sunday morning

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Runners and gunners - Cold winds were blowing over Champions and Legends Stadiums at Cape Sunday...

Pop Pop knocks uncle out of the ring everyday

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
The Leaf - Sportswriter Dick Dougherty called Our Lady of Grace grammar school basketball player...

Ironies and agonies sprinkled with hilarities

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Kool and the Gang - A state championship celebration brunch was held at the Baywood Greens banquet...

People you don’t know are never surprised to see you

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Hover like a mother - Susan and I rolled north through Hockessin to West Grove, Pa.,...

Lucky Leprechaun 5K has more locals than a little bit

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Three-hundred pounders - Some 300 athletes pounded the pavement in Milton Sunday morning for the...

Cape girls’ basketball is 56-10 over last three seasons

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Fifty years - It will be 50 years next girls’ basketball season since Cape won a state championship...

Plaques in places no one ever sees unless invited or...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Housekeeping - The wrestling season ended Feb. 26. The gym is broken down. Mats are rolled up, with...

Uncanny Maney leads off spring after closing out...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Lead-off girl - I popped onto the Cape track Tuesday for some spring sports photos. Flushed from...

Reaching across wrestling history tying Cape...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Embracing the past - I saw the Brittingham boys, Eugene and Kevin, roll into the Cape Big...