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Goodbye Girl Ann Grunert waves hello at Turkey Trot 5K
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Goodbye Girl - Ann Grunert is the executive director at Special Olympics Delaware and is retiring...
At 50, coach Chris Mattioni can write down and take...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Matty Dome - Cape head wrestling coach Chris Mattioni won the school’s first state championship in...
Alia Marshall tips the balance as Northwestern beats...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Keep the tip - Say “tip drill,” and most sports fans think football and interception. But the...
Foreign players on American rosters is the real...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
The foreign factor - The Final Four of Division I college field hockey begins this Friday, Nov. 19...
Cowbell kids and woot-woot women
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Rogue photos - The Coastal Delaware Running Festival was held over two days this past weekend, and...
Jim Powell, a life from sidelines to between the...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Between the lines - Jim Powell passed Oct. 31 at the age of 87. Jim was a former football coach and...
Trophies are the space junk of the digital age
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Land of lost trophies - Trophies are the space junk of the digital age. Cape has 52 years’ worth of...
Sports sidelines are friends central like a Quaker...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Make it, take it - The sidelines of sports prior to competitive games is friends central for me, a...
‘Whatever I feel like I wanna do, gosh’
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Top eliminator - Tyler Muse, 28, is an elite runner and, I assume, an elite fifth-grade math...
It’s not about the place, but more about the race
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Two-way player - I was stuck between stop and go ready to capture the start of the girls’ race at...
B Mack breaks the Boardwalk banner held by Jane and...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Boardwalk banner - The Tommy 10 5K on the Rehoboth Boardwalk Sunday morning enjoyed a surge in same...
Ten low-bridging bulldogs fronting Cape athletes
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Ten low-bridging bulldogs - A young boy was low-bridged by a playful bulldog named Brutus – a...
Friday Night Lights at Cape brings out all the muppets
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Healthy home games - Cape Henlopen rocks a spirited atmosphere at Friday night home football games...
Photos on the fly at Sandhill Fields cross country meet
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
I love the flower girls - It was Senior Day for Cape cross country at Sandhill Fields in Georgetown...
Third-party selfie with Awesome Izzy, my new...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Third-Party Selfie - I asked JV field hockey player Isabella Fuscellaro to join me during the...
Compassionate toughness – the leadership of a coach...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Street fight - Smyrna field hockey, under coach Loveita Moffitt, brings a fierce, no-back-down...
I’m a bonded Blue Hen, a member of the club
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Blue Hen Club - I once asked former Delaware quarterback Scott Reihm if I was real Delaware. I have...
Darby Dog has left the yard and human friends are lost
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Ring! Ring! “Fredman, is your dog lost?” “No, he knows where he is. Dog’s don’t get lost, they just...
Young men who inspire us at Crushin Cancer 5K
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Ryan Ennis - I didn’t know I knew Ryan Ennis until I saw him Sunday at the Paradise Grill Crushin...
Clarke Brothers getting it done from abstract art to...
1 year ago
Clarke Brothers - Brandon and Tres Clarke are Cape graduates; their mom Renee Kenner was a Cape...
Dan the Photog Man grounded down and rubberized with...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Dan got plowed - Friday night, Nov. 14, 2014, at Sussex Tech for first round of playoffs. Cape...
Blended Morgan, Bolander families run the Cannonball...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Universities represented - The blended families of Morgans and Bolanders connected through the late...
Tracking athletes who ‘spit the hook’ is fair game
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Horse Power - “We’ll raise up our glasses against evil forces, singing, Whiskey for my men, and...
Slow and steady wins the race, blessed with a smile...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Blessed - Kathleen Gallagher, 63, passed me last Saturday at the Summer’s End 5K. She was running a...
Shoes bought 40 years ago have raced from...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Forty-year-old shoes - Jack Huxtable, 83, a Cornell graduate, had a career in the foreign service...
All team members should dress for state tournaments
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Dem da rules - I’m more than willing to declare a rule dumb if that is my belief but nevertheless...
Fans follow the football; the hardcore watch the...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Following the football - Herky Billings was a legendary offensive play caller because he was able...
Ducks and Red Wolves set to scrimmage Cape football
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Quack Attack - The Odessa Ducks are coming to Legends live at 5 Friday to scrimmage the Cape...
Most people run just because, not for a cause
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
“C’est la vie”- You never can tell. The Fire Fightin’ 5K Run/Walk in Rehoboth Sunday morning is one...
Football coaches at Sweetbriar are formidable and...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Apocalypse Now - The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – don’t mess with their world. These roughneck...
Cape football battles Sussex Tech in full-collision...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Boys talking noise - The first full-contact football scrimmage of August preseason for high schools...
A world interconnected by sports and other stuff
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Interconnected sports world - Joe Franchella is a grandfather and football guy like me by way of...
Cape football launches into 2021 season
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Launch angle -
Cape football under the direction of head coach
J.D. Maull
has...
Robert Mitchell a preseason all-MEAC lineman from NCCU
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Lineman for life - Robert Mitchell,
out of Millsboro and Cape Henlopen, is now a preseason...
Tagging people in photos, but who is it?
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Playing tag -
Last week I posted a Facebook album of a Cape hockey camp. One photo showed a...
The talent train keeps rolling like Old Man River
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Champions Stadium - The Cape campus is user-friendly with a fieldhouse separating two lighted turf...
Joanne Harrigan, inspirational and tough, overlaid...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
I started a joke - I saw the woman with the walking stick make a left turn behind the race pack...
Photos and stories endure, but can you tell them and...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Take a good look around! This is your hometown! - Zack Gelof
showed up at the Millsboro...
Dress like a Bedouin and keep your camel close
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Pop roast - I had scheduled myself to photograph about six games of Eastern Shore girls’ lacrosse (...
Lineman for Lightning catches the cup
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Lineman for Lightning - John McMahon was a Philadelphia All-Catholic League lineman for Lasalle...
Sharing the roads at Sesame Street by the Sea
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Sharing the road - Lewes running races staged at Irish Eyes thanks to the graciousness of Charlene...
Joann Szczepkowski drives an Outback, but she’s...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Joann Szczepkowski - Runner Joann and I share the same year and day of birth. She recently asked me...
Coach Nic’s dog Hepburn carries on his love of...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Hepburn - Cross country and track coach Lou Nicoletti passed on April 19, 2020, at the age of 70...
Fish On! Get in the fighting chair or start telling...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Fish On -
Trolling the blue waters of Baltimore Canyon, “fish on'' means game time –...
Babies carry my blue chair from Toddle and Topple
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Whack Pack -
It’s no surprise if you read this column, now going on 40 years, that I cover...
Sands of time sifting through fingers of little girl...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Sand of Time -
Childhood friends
Katie Frederick
and
Alia Marshall
pass the...
Kissed by a cop at the Father’s Day 5K
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Kissed by a cop - Kim Geyer is a fast friend from the running scene. She has been a Millersville,...
Friends share sports moments together
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
True friends -
Last Saturday morning as the SoDel Cares 5K was winding down, a little girl...
Cape football sends three Gold players to 65th all...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Keep your distance - The 65th annual Blue-Gold All-Star Football Game is set for Friday night, June...
Basement Boys to Beach Boys, they get around
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Ahead of the game - I was a Rehoboth Beach Patrol rookie at age 30 with a wife and four kids, and a...
Summer is for strength, speed and nutrition
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Fish out of water - I’m a Cape person, but mostly a kid person, so June 1 I walked onto the...
Take it to the House of Spirits and remember them all
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
House of Spirits - Magic Mikey Fred played for a state championship in lacrosse Thursday night,...
Two Cape teams in lax finals; fans pay two times
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Double game-day face - The Cape girls’ and boys’ lacrosse programs each played state championship...
Track is a digital, data-driven sport in real time
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Bits of digital data - The state track meet generates two days’ worth of live data which has to be...
Is Mullet Run Street in Milford named after the fish...
1 year ago
Biting midges - Known locally as No See Ums. Their scientific name is ceratopogonidae. What are...
Sunday morning track clinic at Sesame Street by the...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Tim’s track clinic -
Sunday morning sunrise to slow-down day, I am heading out the door...
Hoping for sports success doesn’t come at the...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Changing the locks -
Gates and doors around schools and fields are locked most of the time...
Coastal Sussex is a mecca of running races; just hit...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Half in the bag - The 12th Seashore Striders Half Marathon, Relay and 5K run are in the books for...
Masks or no masks: What is going down in the world...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
No mask, don’t ask - Fans from afar looked at my posted game photos of the May 5 girls’ lacrosse...
Read option: If a coach you know writes a book, go...
Dave Frederick
1 year ago
Read option -
I just read “More Than One Goal” by Cape boys’ lacrosse coach
Mark D’...
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