People in Sports

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Rehoboth Marathon showcases the running mecca of...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Economic impact - The Rehoboth Beach Seashore Marathon, marking its 10th anniversary, handled 3,000...

Rogue racers with a rich tradition

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Winter indoor track - I coached the sport and I know the challenges, from recruiting athletes to...

Let the force be with you, centrifugal and centripetal

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Centrifugal force - Gage Hall, 9, flew around the corner and into the finish chute at the Turkey...

Job interview is a two-way street, a negotiation...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Art of the Deal - Interesting that Donald Trump didn’t physically engage in the writing process for...

Alumni along the fence are the quilt of the community

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Alumni along the fence - State championship game day at Rullo Stadium, Thanksgiving week, the...

Fighting for perspective while fighting for a...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Fighting for perspective - "The race doesn't always go to the fastest man, but sometimes goes to...

Meep! Meep! Elite cross country runners sustain...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Meep! Meep! - Keelin Hays of Tatnall bounded down the trail at Killens Pond State Park at the Cross...

A certain symmetry between Doc and Tom and the child...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Little Joe - I have a younger cousin, Joe Kelly , who is a New Jersey Freeholder and plays the...

Moon waxing not waning, silly rabbits

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Waxing not waning, silly rabbits - A big old moon shone down on Legends Stadium Nov. 2, accenting...

Runners and racers don’t give up position without a...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Better two too late than never - Runners Lizhet Patraca of Indian River and Haylie Cox of Delmar...

Sunday morning rain coming down over wet Sea Witch 5K

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Early morning rain - I looked over Grove Park from the front seat of my 4Runner at 8 a.m., Oct. 29...

A thundering herd is a sound felt but not heard

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Thundering Herds - Some 300 middle school cross country boys rumbled and romped past my camera lens...

Tyler Blades is not a natural-born runner

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Blade Runner - Tyler Blades, 15, looks like a natural-born runner, with his blond hair blowing in...

Cross country strategy is simple - get to the front...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Great strides - There are few Silky Sullivans or Dave Wattles in the sport of cross country. The...

Back in the frame. Back in the game

Dave Frederik
7 years ago
Back in the frame - I ventured out to photograph the Herring Point 5K and 10K Oct. 15. It was my...

Tom Frederick: a Cape kid to the core, his later...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Going home! It’s Homecoming, 1994, Cape versus Milford. Quarterback Tom Frederick drops back and...

Dewey Goes Pink, a day dedicated to somebody and...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Cherry O Baby - I wore a Temple cherry shirt at Dewey Goes Pink Oct. 7. I spent 14 hours combined,...

Friday Homecoming game more about the Saturday dance

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Homecoming - Skip ahead to Saturday, Oct. 20, when Cape is Sussex Central’s Homecoming opponent...

If you see a rhino in the road, you got off one exit...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Peddie School soccer - Cape’s 8-0 public school soccer team from Sussex County will go on a great...

Rules of decorum for pledges, prayers and anthems...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Pledge of Allegiance - Every American and their grandmothers know that prayer and public schools...

Savage and Kobasa inducted into Delaware State...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Hornets Pride - I attended the Delaware State Athletics Hall of Fame banquet Sept. 22 at the Martin...

100 cross country runners sparkle in afternoon...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Simply the best - An afternoon high school cross country meet at the College of Earth, Ocean and...

Jeff Savage going into Hornets Hall of Fame

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
My upended, untenured friend - I won’t be at the Cape football game this Friday night. Instead, I...

Cape hockey walks proudly into season after 2-1 loss...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Balanced and biased - I crossed over a few years back and stopped trying to be an emotionless...

Brothers Wyatt and Whitman run a 5K then pose for...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Child and the Blue Chair - A young boy approached me at the end of the Cannonball 5K Sept. 10, as I...

Sept. 9 cross country festival at Killens Pond to...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Fall foliage - The Lake Forest Invitational cross country festival at Killens Pond this Saturday at...

Saturday morning packed with three Pop Warner games...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
It’s Eclectic! Boogie Woogie - A Cape Vikings Pop Warner tripleheader versus Smyrna at Legends...

Jim Brown, 81, still runs his game between the tackles

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Jim Brown - I walked next to Jim Brown inside the Philadelphia International Airport in 1964, a...

Sundance Run and Swim showcases a diverse array of...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Ocean Atlantic - Swimmers crossed the finish line before runners and biathletes at the Aug. 27...

Prayer more controversial than kneeling during anthem

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Freedom from religion - The national organization Freedom from Religion sent an official letter to...

Hannah and her Caravel sisters with a Cape connection

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Hey, Tracy Jr.! The Caravel field hockey team was leaving Champions Stadium Aug. 19 after playing...

Friends through football share 40 years of memories

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Collick and Cuzzie - On Aug. 17, I snapped a photo of Bill Collick and Vaughn Trammel on the...

Liem Fitzgerald, age 4, runs his first 5K through...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Just Do It! - Liem Fitzgerald of Middletown insisted on running the Que Pasa 5K in a steady...

Eagles logo and bingo card on graveyard tombstone

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Tombstone Blues - I had time to kill last Tuesday morning in Annunciation Cemetery in Shenandoah...

Momma’s a Mastiff and I’m my doggie’s daddy

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Your momma’s a Mastiff - The Run for the Paws was the ninth annual in honor of Lucy Crowe whom I...

Jonah and Tanner are rock-solid, salt of the earth...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Beastie Boys - I call it a Jerry Carter moment. Some years back, covering a high heat preseason...

Cape High School talent mostly missing from local...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Sitting on stories - I can top most of the stories I hear for the first time from the newly arrived...
In Wawa, there are no legends and no MVPs

A legend of lax walks the grass fields in Rehoboth

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Lax legend - I had John Zulberti and Mark Duncan pose for a photo at the GameBreaker lacrosse camp...

Wawa twins Lori and Sandra Waldee-Warden are married...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Wawa Twins - Lori and Sandra Waldee-Warden are so close it took me two years covering road races...

Hall of Fame wrestling coach Pete Basile runs...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Basile Day - Pate Basile of Ocean View is the former Caesar Rodney wrestling coach who was at the...

Seashore Striders and the bandit young gun wins...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Watch old bandit run - A bandit in a road race is someone who doesn’t register, and he or she just...

Birthdays, babies and champions celebrated

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Magic Mikey - Mikey Frederick, whom I dub the forgotten grandchild, he is No. 5 of 9, turned 13...

Vistas and venues embedded in Cape Henlopen School...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Vistas and venues - I could teach the greatest semester class at Cape Henlopen High School called...

Magical realism runs through the Independence Day race

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Magical realism - Chilean-American author Isabel Allende, who wrote “The House of the Spirits,”...

The birthday boys of summer at the Firecracker 5K

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Birthday boys - July 1 was the birthday of local runners Bill McArthur , 77, and Troy Senft, 60. I...

Fast friends on the running scene looking toward...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
Cinco de Marathon - Five amigos drawn to the sport of running one person at a time have made a...

Coach P.J. Kesmodel continues to create concentric...

Dave Frederick
7 years ago
P.J. waves hello - Coach P.J Kesmodel lost his older brother Hunter June 17 to advanced Parkinson’s...

Beach Blast lax set to blanket Lewes this weekend

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Beach Blast lacrosse - 100 girls’ club lacrosse teams playing on 10 fields at Cape High and the...

A magic moment captured at the end of the Father’s...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
The Naturals - Bennett Brumbley, 9, from Laurel ran his Father's Day 5K in 22:56. Doc Lee Masser,...

Buddies charging the field is the best 10 minutes of...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Reach out - The 10 minutes before the Blue-Gold All-Star Football Game, where Buddies charge the...

A locals guidebook - act like you know, even if you...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Tim and Grace - I snapped a photo of Seashore Striders Race Director and Beacon track coach Tim...

Pep and pet rallies in Cape history

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Pep Rally - A pep rally is a term older than Grandmom Rose that just keeps hanging around, just...

Cape tribal elders and warriors rim the field for...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Rimming the field - History and tradition rim the field and inhabit the stands during championship...

Legends of Lewes Half Pint and Jimmy at Frawley...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Legends of Lewes - Sitting in the shade at Frawley Stadium watching Cape play baseball May 31 were...

Atlantic Lacrosse continues to develop stellar players

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Feeder system - I photographed the girls’ U15 championship lacrosse game of the Eastern Shore Youth...

Sports make your dreams come true, but sometimes not

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Enjoy the journey - Condensed craziness has settled over the metropolis leading into Memorial Day...

Tear-stained eyes reflect on the struggle to survive

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Joyful sadness - Miss Wilmington Rebecca Gasperetti sang the national anthem from a 1-foot elevated...

Hydrate in the high heat and avoid getting half-baked

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Mother and daughter - Amy Kuhlman and her daughter Katie crossed the finish line together at 32:00...

Runners roll in the morning through rain and wind or...

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Happy Hours - My new millennium lifestyle has been “sleep at night, prowl in the morning.” That is...

The harder they come, the harder they fall on you

Dave Frederick
8 years ago
Waxed - “The harder they come, the harder they fall” - Jimmy Cliff . Most athletes and coaches will...