People in Sports

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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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years ago
Smelling the sweat - The Henlopen Conference wrestling championships are Friday and Saturday, Feb...

Local lacrosse players lighting up the college...

Dave Frederick
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years ago
Squirrels gonna be squirrely - I had to go into Cape High to get a photo of three pole vaulters –...

Iceberg lettuce heads are the poltergeists of...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Layered player - I was five sheets to the cold wind Saturday morning, layered up and parked nose-in...

Golden anniversary of Cape’s girls’ basketball state...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Golden Anniversary - Cape Henlopen won the first Delaware state championship contested for girls 33...

Andy Reid will stare into a sideline that didn’t...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Yo Chiefs! Andy Reid showed up for sportswriter Larry O’Rourke’s ALS fundraiser at Chickie &...

Hand jive and hambone are flip sides of creative...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Crazy Hand Jive - I know a cat named “Way Out Willie” who did the crazy hand jive. The hand jive is...

Cape wrestles Central at the Castle on Wednesday night

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Focus groups - Cape will wrestle at unbeaten Sussex Central Wednesday, Jan. 25, with JV bouts...

Soccer coach Gary Montalto receives national award,...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Soccer professor - Gary Montalto is on the spectrum of soccer coaches; he sees things before they...

Sonic trash trucks rolling the roads of Sussex County

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Sonic trash truck - I was meeting with my nephew Mike last Friday and we were discussing the...

Lanelle Hearn leaves legacy of the stained-glass cross

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Stained-glass cross - Lanelle Hearn was a Bethel Methodist preschool stained-glass soul searcher...

Cape winter track at ease like an Ocean Breeze

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Cranapple Games - Cape winter/indoor track has always chased the competition going back 50 years...

Pleasant weather means all athletes are in season

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Pleasant like a pheasant - I trucked around the Cape campus Tuesday afternoon like a fair-weather...