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People from my time sharing present time with teens
Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Anachrophobia - A neurotic disorder I invented: “the fear that no one will know what I’m talking...
Road races and classrooms feature people and life...
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Race to the top - Road races are like classrooms and sports teams. Everyone has a backstory to tell...
Cougars football at full-strength Cape Friday night
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Instagramps - I met Cape senior two-sport athlete Lex Wescott for the first time Sept. 13 before...
Warrior runner Paige Teal raises fist to own her moment
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
I am the warrior - Paige Teal of Wilmington Christian ran the JV girls’ race at the Sept. 9 Lake...
Maren Ford is a color commentator for Big 10 field...
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
I must be steaming - An email from Jim (Mayor) and Teresa (Kids’ Ketch) Ford: “Hope all is well...
Prediction Run 5K closes out Seashore Striders...
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Last Blast Prediction Run - No watches or Swatches were allowed Sept. 2 at the 33rd Last Blast...
Captains are team leaders by example who keep clowns...
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Cape captains - Seniors Maurki James, Brenn Scott and Saul Garcia-Carrasco are captains of the 2023...
Mary Kessler and a following sea of runners flow...
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Girl power - Mary Kessler, 74, was a Cape Gazette Athlete of the Week April 21. I’m going to rerun...
Coach Tracey Griesbaum’s lifetime achievement is...
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Lifetime channel - Former head coach at the University of Iowa, Tracey Griesbaum is this year’s...
Athletes run distance like they’re running gassers...
Dave Frederick
7 months ago
Running Down a Dream - I often write, “Runners don’t run for a cause but rather just because. It’s...
Varsity Blues: color me bad for teams with depth of...
Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Varsity Blues - Delaware high schools dropped conference play in football and went to a three-...
Cape football ‘live scrimmage’ set at Easton this...
Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Live thud - First State Military, coached by Jeff Braxton, showed up to Cape for an Aug. 12...
Parents usually make decisions on injuries; pop pops...
Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Gangly growth phase - Coach Steve Re and I were sitting on the Beacon Middle School stage prior to...
Ben Bamforth joins UD cross country staff
Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Name drops - After the Race for the Paws 5K Aug. 5, I grabbed a photo of University of Delaware...
USA women’s soccer in World Cup scoring slump
Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Tape and text - Many years ago, I began interviewing coaches post game without using a notebook. I...
Captured in cartoonish caricature by Roberto Marin...
Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Likes and dislikes - The Orioles’ home game on Saturday was an 8-3 loss to the Yankees followed by...
Yoga stretches into the mind of an athlete
Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Yoga stretches into sports - I remember when yoga stretching seeped into football practices in the...
The shot heard ‘round Sesame Street
Dave Frederick
8 months ago
The shot heard ‘round Sesame Street - In baseball, the so-called Shot Heard ‘Round the World was a...
Cape continues to blend old-school feel with new...
Dave Frederick
8 months ago
Old school, new school - Four decades and three high schools ago, I was a new Cape teacher and...
Omaha to Oakland, the storied summer of the Gelof...
Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Omaha to Oakland - The storied boys of summer cross country baseball sojourn of Jake and Zack Gelof...
Bud Hitchens hangs up his sports hat
Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Stare and glare - Back in 1976-77, new Cape teachers with basketball backgrounds, Dave Frederick...
A stranger to surprises suddenly stunned by South...
Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Rehearsals for retirement - “The days grow longer for smaller prizes. I feel a stranger to all...
Legacy: the student and the Subaru
Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Legacy: the student and the Subaru - The U.S. Supreme Court has struck down affirmative action...
Curse of Fu Manchu slimes biathlon swimmers
Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Faces of Fu Manchu - He was a fictional character in a series of movies starring Christopher Lee...
Get out of the way! We came to play
Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Get out of the way - Open fields for field hockey for high school-aged athletes are held every...
Melded in a magic moment of sports soulfulness
Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Magic moment -
I was just living my life at the front end of a long, hot photo day at the...
Athletes play four years then graduate, it’s a...
Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Mikaylah sunrise - I was walking behind the Cape goalie cage with two weeks remaining in the season...
Sports teams celebrate championships with excessive...
Dave Frederick
9 months ago
Best start - The 33rd annual Father's Day 5K, with 320 runners striding like sun flares away from...
SoDel Cares 5K for a cause and just because
Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Runners race “just because,” not for a cause. The fifth annual SoDel Cares 5K and noncompetitive...
SoDel Cares: the Bucks stop here!
Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Two Bucks - Robert Coupe was nominated by Gov. Carney this week to become the state’s first...
Sleep at night, prowl in the morning
Dave Frederick
10 months ago
SoDel to Sunday - Between the Bluecoast and Thompson Island restaurants June 10, the SoDel Cares 5K...
All-star games abound if they can be found
Dave Frederick
10 months ago
June is all-star month - Each sport has its own all-star event, with the exception of track’s Meet...
Pope of Cape sports ain’t no joke
Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Rope-a-Pope - A Cape secretary once gave me a compliment by calling me “the Pope of Cape Henlopen...
Westside tough guys with soft hearts
Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Life lessons - I have watched Austen Cave run since he was a freshman at Delmar High School, mostly...
Sadness only lasts half the bus ride home
Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Right said Freds - Fred Harvey and Fredman, two Cape-connected friends for a long time, met on the...
Anniversaries and championship seasons bring the...
Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Numbers game - I always say numbers track your life, and if you say them out loud, one of two...
Cape, Sussex Academy win relay state titles in...
Dave Frederick
10 months ago
Freaky Friday - The Cape Henlopen 4-by-800-meter relay team ran a one-heat Division I final May 19...
We’re talking about practice, not a game
Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Spring strafing - I sometimes do a touch-and-go late-afternoon flyover, landing at sports practices...
Smiling on the way down is the champion’s way to fall
Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Sundown smile -
Bailey Fletcher cleared the pole vault bar at 14-feet-6-inches May 12 at...
A little girl from a fairy tale showed up in my world
Dave Frederick
11 months ago
The Children's Playground - The lacrosse game was over Monday night as the sun dropped out to the...
Lewes responders rescue runner who collapsed close...
Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Rescued runner - A half-marathoner had to be jump-started a half-mile from the finish line Saturday...
Telling tales while chasing my tail
Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Telling tales while chasing my tail - You know you're slow when you are 18 hours away from catching...
Hudson Fields is a back-home beacon, everyone’s...
Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Hudson Fields - A surreal and magical place; it’s the back-home beacon when heading south on Route...
Mark Schaeffer is Sesame Street by the Sea’s tribute...
Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Tribute Man - If there is a tribute-issuing muppet here at Sesame Street by the Sea, it is Sussex...
Oy Vey 5K a Sunday morning friendly race
Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Oy Vey 5K -
Leaving from the Seaside Jewish Community Center along Holland Glade Road April...
‘Let the Sun Shine In,’ amazing grace is all around us
Dave Frederick
11 months ago
Go Gabby! My best photos are accidental. On Tuesday, I captured Cape’s Gabrielle Parillon running...
Cape girls’ lax earns big win at Broadneck
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Looking for trouble - The Cape girls’ lacrosse team crossed the Bay Bridge April 15, looking at the...
Spring break is over; it’s time to resume high...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Gimme a break - “Break me off a piece of that KitKat bar.” Break the ears off the bunny rabbit and...
The peloton had a mind of its own; racing is an...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Kiddie City - Among the gatherings of children on Easter weekend, the Bunny Palooza 5K in Bethany...
Googlers gonna get you; you have run out the boogie man
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Googlelopolis - Rhymes with Snuffleupagus, an imaginary muppet we could all see. Years ago, there...
Cape should hang a championship banner in wrestling...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Just plain weird - There were 48 wrestling teams at the March state championships at Cape Henlopen...
A simple ‘good job’ goes a long way in the sports...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
A simple “good job” - I photographed the Caravel at Milford Middle School boys’ lacrosse game March...
Managers bust loose in Friday night lacrosse victory
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Jazzman - “Jazzman take my blues away with every change you play” - Carole King. I take photos and...
Old war horse inspired by young athletes every day
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Know the story, know the person - Left-handed Cape lacrosse goalie Michael Sposato moved from...
Flop and Slop - Fosbury and Jacobs were high-jumping...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Flop and Slop - Dick Fosbury, originator of the back-first high jump known as the Fosbury Flop and...
Fast-walking Adele Wagner circles 5K course in 31:25
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Groucho walking - Back when I put together a streak of walking a hundred miles a month for five...
Salesianum brings Broom Street to winter sports
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Broom Street -
Salesianum is on Broom Street in Wilmington, just turn right at the liquor...
Adria Windish and Sam Mincey show Cape’s Got Talent
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Bringing the Big House down - Cape’s Adria Windish brought the wrestling crowd to its collective...
Cruising and perusing fields of dreams and seams
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Cruising and perusing -
I carry my camera onto the lacrosse practice field with my head on...
Jaden Messick enjoys birthday 16 running the track...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Ain’t that tough enough? Jaden Messick, a sophomore, wore No. 1 in football as a 160-pound...
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