People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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Highway One 5K to the stranger zone

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Stride on by - On Memorial Day weekend, 5K runners ran past my camera during the 20th Highway One...

Community policing at Sesame Street by the Sea

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Community policing - The Silver Lake bridge was Tranquility Base. I was kicking it off the bumper...

The sad eyes of injured athletes reveal the hurt...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Sad eyes - Injured athletes have sad eyes like a locked-down lab on a rainy day. The jointed and...

Rewards, awards and time to get along, little doggies

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Cross-street cousins - Ella Rishko and Mikey Frederick are first cousins and senior classmates who...

Lacrosse umpire Jill Fitzcharles retires after 35...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Umpire retires - Jill Fitzcharles, who has been a referee for women's lacrosse for 35 years,...

Deals with a deity for sports outcomes are just...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Deal with the deity - Here’s my deal, Lord – if you can deliver a win in this championship game, I...

Mikey Frederick hits double 100 milestone

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Magic Mikey - Mik ey Frederick scored his 100th career lacrosse goal May 19 at Legends Stadium...

I know more than most, but miss more than ever

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Cleaning house - Sussex Academy’s Sadie Tunnell was Henlopen Conference champion in the 400-meter...

DIAA girls’ lacrosse semis to be played at Delaware...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Delaware State lacrosse - Jeff Savage, a former athletic director and softball coach at Delaware...

That’s good enough, because nothing compares to you

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Habitrails to you - I call it running the hamster wheel to nowhere, the quest to be the best, but...

Kelly and Davey are inclusive friends who know what...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
A magic moment - Senior Night for girls’ lacrosse was held at Champions Stadium May 6. It was the...

Cape lacrosse alumni gather for moments of reflection

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Alumni game - Coach Lou Norbeck, a former Cape football and lacrosse coach, and history teacher...

Seining the river of sports looking for good stuff...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Starbursting - This is a catchall column with just too many things coming at me too fast, not the...

Joy to the World rocks Cape Unified track team

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Showboat - Davey Frederick runs the 100 meters for Cape’s Unified team. He grew up around sports,...

Dave Robinson passes away but forever friends always...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Friends are forever - A close friend, Dr. Dave Robinson, who moved inside the concentric circles of...

Sports on the beach are postcard perfect

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Postcard perfect - Cape’s lacrosse girls hosted a Holy Thursday Easter Egg Hunt and skills...

Runners rumble, rock the boards at Bunny Palooza

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Thunder Road - No one has sat in a blue chair and watched more oncoming race traffic through a...

Cape volleyball is a solidly good team, and fans...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Gramps Interruptus - My talent is that no matter what or how much I’m doing, I always look like I’m...

Bobblehead giveaway days better than fat heads in...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Bobblehead giveaway - Checking the Phillies’ upcoming schedule, I see the team plays at the Dodgers...

Sussex nicknames require explanation of the derivation

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Bullet Train - Keishawn Mansfield brought home the bacon Tuesday on the Legends Stadium track,...

Pop pop and the four-way stop; blinking red confuses...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Knocking about - There is a band from Madison, Wis., called the Red Hot Horn Dogs. I was thinking...

Articulation of academics and athletics is tricky...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Grandma’s house - “I stay with my Grandma.” Looking back at a history of forfeited high school...

200 young kids cuckoo for clinics on Sunday morning

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Runners and gunners - Cold winds were blowing over Champions and Legends Stadiums at Cape Sunday...

Pop Pop knocks uncle out of the ring everyday

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
The Leaf - Sportswriter Dick Dougherty called Our Lady of Grace grammar school basketball player...

Ironies and agonies sprinkled with hilarities

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Kool and the Gang - A state championship celebration brunch was held at the Baywood Greens banquet...

People you don’t know are never surprised to see you

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Hover like a mother - Susan and I rolled north through Hockessin to West Grove, Pa.,...

Lucky Leprechaun 5K has more locals than a little bit

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Three-hundred pounders - Some 300 athletes pounded the pavement in Milton Sunday morning for the...

Cape girls’ basketball is 56-10 over last three seasons

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Fifty years - It will be 50 years next girls’ basketball season since Cape won a state championship...

Plaques in places no one ever sees unless invited or...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Housekeeping - The wrestling season ended Feb. 26. The gym is broken down. Mats are rolled up, with...

Uncanny Maney leads off spring after closing out...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Lead-off girl - I popped onto the Cape track Tuesday for some spring sports photos. Flushed from...

Reaching across wrestling history tying Cape...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Embracing the past - I saw the Brittingham boys, Eugene and Kevin, roll into the Cape Big...

Time to doff the masks and put the masked marvels to...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Strange rangers - The Lone Ranger loses his uniqueness if all riders in the posse are masked and...

Past and present converge at Henlopen Wrestling...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Convergence - “Planets are spinning in space, may as well enjoy the race. Isn’t it a lovely ride...

Decision to not to renew JD Maull’s contract is...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Goners - Coaching contracts are sometimes not renewed, and there are no “just cause”...

Cape goes Captain Crunch, winning four championships

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Crunch of Cape sports champions - The long weekend started Thursday with the boys’ and...

Blue and the Britts roll into Cape wrestling match

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Blue rolls into wrestling match - “I haven’t been to a Cape wrestling match in 40 years,” said...

Seasons wind down as the intensity cranks up

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Everyday people - “I love everyday people.” - Sly Stone. I am immersed inside the wrestling culture...

Vaughn Trammel selected for Delaware Afro American...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Cuzzie - Vaughn Trammel, a 1976 Cape graduate and multi-sport raw athlete built for speed and power...

Tony Hazzard’s smile and style powered Cape’s Little...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Heaven in the house - Cape’s Little Big House was heaven for Tony Hazzard. Back in the day, there...

Adjusting sports lineups in your head is exhausting

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Run but can’t hide - Flashback to 1985: I’m coaching Cape track. We are an unbeaten team with 30...

Deebo Samuel snapped Saturday like Debo Lister on...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Deebo dogs Packers - Talk is profusely and endlessly complimentary for quarterbacks Joe Burrow of...

Seeing the landscape as a kaleidoscope of color hues

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Identity politics - “ Identity politics is a political approach wherein people of a particular...

Shut out from Silver Spring Grapple at the Brook...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Attack Dog Me - I went through channels like a manatee for all seasons hoping for permission to...

Turkey plays the trumpet as fans in the stands go...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Trumpet solo - Josh Turek, Cape senior all-state jazz band lead trumpet, brought an excited crowd...

Cape’s vaccinated run at Collegeville High School...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Tracksters and Vaxers - Cape brought close to full boys’ and girls’ teams to the Collegeville High...

Horn sections of college bands make it rain; wear a...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Born to Run - Running continues to be the No. 1 participation sport at Sesame Street by the Sea and...

Goats like company, none want to be the Goat

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Dos cabras - No real goat wants to be the goat. Cape runner Katie Kuhlman lives on a farm with her...

School year trumps calendar year for sports fans

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Minimize to maximize - Monday night sitting at my 27-inch iMac, I was following the Cape girls...

Gifted a book on running, so sat down and read it...

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Gifted a book - Daughter-in-law Liza gifted me a book for Christmas, “The Incomplete Book of...

Seaford High gym will be named after Ben Sirman

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
The Ben Pen - The Seaford School District Board of Education has voted to name the Seaford...

Beast of the East is a meat grinder

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Banged up at the Beast - The Beast of the East Invitational wrestling tournament at the...

Staying in your lane for two laps is too long

Dave Frederick
3 years ago
Dumb, don’t like it - I have worked my entire life around teenagers, some of whom are now 60 years...

Hike it, buster! Mask mandates a morass of muddled...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Hike it, buster - A year-and-a-half ago during Pandemic 1, I was standing outside the HomeGoods...

George Edwards was street smart and puppy dog soft

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Love and happiness old school - George Edwards passed away last week. He was on the 1979 Cape state...

Wild weekend of sports participation

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Erik-Stephane - Cape and Swarthmore graduate in neuroscience Erik-Stephane Stancofski, 22, ran “...

Fans in the stands and showtime for sports rocks the...

Dave Frederick
4 years ago
Mats come down, Seahawks lift off - Sussex Academy brought its startup wrestling team to Cape...

Goodbye Girl Ann Grunert waves hello at Turkey Trot 5K

Dave Frederick
4 years 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
4 years 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
4 years 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
4 years ago
The foreign factor - The Final Four of Division I college field hockey begins this Friday, Nov. 19...