People in Sports

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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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 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
3 years ago
Pleasant like a pheasant - I trucked around the Cape campus Tuesday afternoon like a fair-weather...

Action News means get off the couch and out of the...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Action News - The big story on Action News is not the retirement of broadcaster Jim Gardner, Trump’...

Snoop: Shizzle my nizzle! Drop it like it’s hot!

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Reflexology - Fred family members roared through the kitchen door on Christmas morning led by Davey...

Nobody taught me the Electric Slide ... where was I?

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Electric Slide Syndrome - I first noticed it back in the late 1980s while sitting at a round table...

Sharing stories in coastal Sussex is a cultural pastime

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
One-on-one - The song by Daryl Hall and John Oates, a couple of Temple guys, contains lots of...

Xfinity to infinity thinking about eternity

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Unsung, not unappreciated - Solid sports programs have a depth of athletes usually divided into two...

Big House rocks from the jump all night long

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Yo, Adria - Judging by both sides of the bleachers being pulled all the way out, a major match was...

Run with a Santa state of mind

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Run with Santa - Skinny Santas run 5K races; fat Santas deadlift crates of Chistmas oranges looking...

Clearing out the clutter of too much sports data

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Temptations - “Keep on walking and don’t look back.” Sports, over a bevy of years,...

History in the midst of hallways and trailways

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Hall pass - I’m sitting on a barstool in a drizzle along Flag Alley taking photos of thousands of...

3,000 runners will share the trails on marathon...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Lewes to Rehoboth - I am credited with being a co-founder of the Lewes Marathon along with John...

We are the champions and friends

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Three equals six - I saw three state championship guys talking among themselves Saturday at the...

Delmar Wildcats hockey a buzzsaw with claws

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Ran into a buzzsaw - That sports term (not shop class) is used mostly in tournament wrestling when...

The fantasy league inside your own head

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
My Pillow - The graying heads of athletes and coaches hit their pillows at night where...

Just another plaque on the wall

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
The Room - All in all, it's just another plaque on the wall. Last season, I wanted it for Mikey,...

Danny Mitchell leaves behind a legacy of funny stories

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Speakers of the House - I took a photo of Danny Mitchell and Pete Schwartzkopf at the Rehoboth Fire...

Lost my shoes but found memories in a cardboard box

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Strangeness of life - I lost a pair of New Balance size 13 Quad E sneakers somewhere in my house. I...

Brenn Scott a two-step athlete, a football and...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
One step, two step - Brenn Scott was a sophomore catcher on Cape’s 2022 state championship baseball...

Bus driver Fred Harvey enjoys private lacrosse ring...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Ring ceremony - After the Senior Night field hockey game versus Caesar Rodney Oct. 25, the Cape...

Make sports history sharable, get your own column

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Crooked numbers - Life moves on, we put up numbers, they track us like mission control. When you...

Legends Stadium inductions set for Friday night

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Dropping the F words - Fall foliage, the flora and fauna colorized, young thinclads running down a...

Cape’s greatest running back in the Homecoming house

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
The Pennant - Yo, Skippy! Get up on outta there! Bryce Harper was in the zone, fouling off pitches...

Lonnie Maull: a student and a sprinter who is gone...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Lonnie Maull - Sometimes nicknamed “Train,” Lonnie left this earth for the greater universe Oct. 11...

Ready to fade into my own parade

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Battle of Route 9 - Sussex Central football plays at Cape Henlopen Friday night and it’s Homecoming...

Great kids just enhance everyone’s game

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Great kid - The best ringing endorsement of a school-aged athlete is when coaches and teachers say...

Styles and Silver Fox Fields has nice alliteration

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Styles and Silver Fox Fields - The Cape Henlopen campus now has two ball fields named after local...

Philly now giddy city, but soft pretzels quickly go...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Giddy City - Philly doesn’t wear success all that well, because sports fans talk too much too soon...

A head coach should be gracious, not dismissive of...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Thanks, Coach! I’m not a fan of network sideline interviews with the coach on their way into the...

Middle school sports a venue to perfect stop-and...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Hockey dads - I took a sports holiday Wednesday, so I decided to check out the Sussex Academy at...

Looking down on 1,000 Dogfish dashers and prancers

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Painter’s ladder - I stood on the top step (or step two) of what some call a stepstool but I call a...

Athlete verbal commitments are contractually non...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Magic Mikey - I posted a photo of Mikey in a Michigan shirt holding a lacrosse stick 10 years ago...

Tunnel to Towers is a time to look, listen and learn

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
General assessment - The Tunnel to Towers 3.43-mile run at Fort Miles inside Cape Henlopen State...

Pentagonal cross country meet at Sandhill Fields

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Euclidean geometry - Ptolemy and gone tomorrow. Teach for transfer, don’t bother reluctant learners...

Ian Fleming runs Bottle & Cork 10-Miler inspired by...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Take it to the bridge - Silver Lake Bridge leading into Rehoboth in the early morning is a...

Big guys driven by faith who can hit

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Zippity dippity - The Dips of Franklin & Marshall College defeated the visiting Captains of...

Upside and downside of sports an emotion ride...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Ella Shockley - A freshman for West Chester University field hockey, straight out of Delmar and...

Playing time and parents – just don’t step over the...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Stepping over the line - Players on teams don’t want to watch the game from the sidelines. Stepping...

Synthetic turf temperatures get stupid hot on August...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Billy Goat Gruff - I am not trolling the operators of the trash-sucking Billy Goat machines in...

Take it to the bounce house of bonding

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Team bonding - Champions Stadium rocks 25 state championship signs – 13 in lacrosse and 12 in field...

Fluffy the wrestler blazes his first 5K in 28 minutes

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Fluffy Flores - A wise word of advice when addressing a 6-foot-6, 270-pound former heavyweight...

Training wheels and sports traditions across the...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Training wheels - Two trainers in a green gator go rolling around Cape’s campus on an early August...

Strong friends stay tethered together for a lifetime

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Silver Anniversary Run for JJ 5K - Girlfriends since forever, having grown up in Rehoboth describes...

Wrestling ring ceremony at Fish On! – I was the...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Ring ceremony - The Cape wrestling team held its ring ceremony at Fish On! at Five Points Aug. 8,...

Runner’s forward lean is a warning sign ... ‘going...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Forward lean - No one has seen more forward leans of struggling runners shuffling toward the finish...

Bill Cordrey honored: I will call it Silver Fox Field

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Silver Fox Field - The softball field at Cape is now named Bill Cordrey Field. The request was made...