People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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A day at the races, lots of runners and faces 

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Coach culture - The varsity boys’ race started at 3:20 p.m. on a picture-perfect Saturday, Nov. 4,...

‘Jeans’ takes me back; coach Tracey captures me in...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
The past is prologue - Cape lacrosse goalie Chris “Jeans” Keller, Class of 2000, identified himself...

Pride goeth before the fall

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Barstool sports - Friday Night Lights to Saturday first light, a transition from turf and track to...

Sports is where the eternal present intersects the...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Jake Mundok - Let’s catch up to the senior SUNY Maritime All-Skyline Conference cross...

Homecoming and historical Cape connections

2 years ago
Mr. Timmons - Caesar Rodney quarterback Julius Timmons battled a swarming and pressing Cape defense...

Jimmy Gill, the crafty lefty, now associate athletic...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Living the Dream - Jimmy Gill, the crafty lefty from Cape baseball who was also a basketball guard...

Come get these memories! Friday night at the Sussex...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Pink Lloyd - I told my wife: “Sussex Central football coaches refer to their home field as The...

Graciousness and sportsmanship are life-lasting...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Good graciousness - I came in the side door on the bench side of the turf field at Sussex Academy...

Past game stories live in the eternal present of...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Bar tales - I learned the importance of remembering high school sports stories from my mentor Dick...

Struck with a stick, but still happy

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Struck with a stick - Cape’s Ally Diehl took a hockey stick to the face, then melted onto...

Hodgson is not Hodgkins; Cape grad Gerald Allen is a...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Hodgson is not Hodgkins - Hodgson is one of four schools in the New Castle County Vo Tech district...

Catty comments followed by ‘just kidding’ are mostly...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Catty comments - Let’s just talk about sports successes, which seem to annoy some people who will...

Dogfish Dash has raised $1 million for environmental...

Dave Frederick
2 years ago
Cut to the quip - Quick wit takes intelligence, perception and a broad-based knowledge of...

People from my time sharing present time with teens

Dave Frederick
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years ago
Yoga stretches into sports - I remember when yoga stretching seeped into football practices in the...

The shot heard ‘round Sesame Street

Dave Frederick
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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
2 years 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...