People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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Signing day is a single step in the right direction

Dave Frederick
3 days 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
6 days 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
1 week 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
1 week 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 weeks 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 weeks 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
3 weeks 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
3 weeks 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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
1 month 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

1 month 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
1 month 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
2 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 months ago
Robin retires - Coach Robin Adair has retired as head coach of field hockey at Tower Hill School...

Legendary Lefties a local sports legacy

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Leftys - This priceless photo shows Johnny Morris and Chris Short (Lewes High left-handed hurlers)...

Dolphins and Democrats: Sometimes a shirt is just a...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Dolphins and Democrats - I attended my first indoor barbecue July 21 to celebrate Bill Collick’s...

Fall sports practices begin Aug. 15; it’s time to...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Fall sports - The first practice for high school fall sports is Wednesday, Aug. 15. Middle school...

Mind over matter in sports: If you don’t mind, it...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Mind over matter - Trained and conditioned athletes who practice outside can compete in all kinds...

Walking the fast track to low impact is not so easy

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Walk like a conniption - Not too many years ago, I walked 100 miles per month for five straight...

Baron Vincent, Cape heavyweight wrestler, remembered...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
The Closer - Baron Vincent was a Cape heavyweight wrestler who started all four years of high...

Patriotism displayed by flags and colors but not...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Thin Blue Line - Melissa Clemons ran the July 4 Red, White & Blue 5K at Rehoboth Beach Country...

Every runner has a goal to meet and a story to tell

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Small-town romance - Eric , 23, and Lauren Westog, 22, are from the same town, Dacula, Ga., and...

Pretty is easy, but a beautiful soul is precious

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Beautiful girls, beautiful people - There were no male runners among the field of 200 at the...

Sports management requires organization, flexibility...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Sports management - Oscar Madison was the messy and disorganized sportswriter in the play “The Odd...

Two lunch ladies named Bill at Father’s Day 5K

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Lunch Lady Land - Young punk comedian Adam Sandle r released his song “Lunch Lady Land” back in...

The Tooth Fairy’s rate of exchange has gone up over...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Jackson Yngve - Just 6 years old, Jackson ran a 5K on Father’s Day with his dad Kurt . Jackson...

The Zen Master inducted into Del. Lacrosse...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
A moment of Zen - The Zen Master of Cape girls’ lacrosse, the creator of concentric circles of...

Some have jerseys to wear at Blue-Gold 5K, others do...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
New jersey or no jersey - My son Jack was a first-team All-Henlopen Conference end on both sides of...

I’m the guy who knows the most people who don’t know...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Coming of age - My mantra out in the wilds of the Delaware sports landscape is “I’m the guy who...

Umpire Tom Disharoon is ripped and fit with a tight...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Umpire Tom Disharoon is a ripped, fit, in-charge umpire, and he don't play. He was all over the 10-...

I knew an ump and his name was Blue, and he’s a good...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Home plate ump - “I knew an old ump and his name was Blue, bet ya five dollars he’s a good ump too...

Lee Masser runs his own race at his own pace

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Masser montage - The 25th annual Dr. Lee Masser 5-miler at Cape May 27 saw a welcoming party of...