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Captains are team leaders by example who keep clowns...
Dave Frederick
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year ago
Yoga stretches into sports - I remember when yoga stretching seeped into football practices in the...
The shot heard ‘round Sesame Street
Dave Frederick
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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
1 year 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...
Two-day wrestling tournaments draw blood, scatter...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Indoor cat - I spent two days inside the Milford Central Academy gym covering the Henlopen...
Sponge blob scribe where the rubber meets the blubber
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Smelling the sweat - The Henlopen Conference wrestling championships are Friday and Saturday, Feb...
Local lacrosse players lighting up the college...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Take me to your feeder - Atlantic Lacrosse and later the Eastern Shore Lacrosse Club harnessed...
Fredgirl met hall of famers and didn’t know it
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Fredgirl story - A decade ago (could have been longer), I was sitting in the press box overlooking...
Vikings videographers Maddie and Jocelyn capture...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Vikings videographers - I obstructed the sightline of Cape sophomores Maddie Elphick and Jocelyn...
Track and field attracts an array of personality types
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Squirrels gonna be squirrely - I had to go into Cape High to get a photo of three pole vaulters –...
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