People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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Ivy alumni are an entangled web of athletes

Dave Frederick
1 day ago
Yale Lockdowns - “Fredman, I just read that a young man named Brenner Short has committed to play...

Staying silent at football games is a tall order

Dave Frederick
5 days ago
Sounds of silence - It’s a tall order to ask a crowd of 50,000 rabid fans – many of whom have been...

Alphas and boomers stride and collide 

Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Boomers and bouncers - Allen “Chattahoochee” Jackson, 57, straight outta Milton, representing...

Fall colors captured at cross country races and in...

Dave Frederick
1 week ago
Tapestry - A cross country race through the flora and fauna of fall foliage ambulates like a...

Lady bugs and lessons of sportsmanship at XC...

Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Cape Guy - You know the Capital One Bank Guy? Well, after the Sesame Street by the Sea Fred...

Showed up for a single photo and a XC race broke out

Dave Frederick
2 weeks ago
Cross purposes - I showed up at Cape Tuesday afternoon to grab a photo of Logan Crotty for...

Happy is the heart of the long distance runner with...

Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
Happy at last - Let’s face it, some body types are better suited for distance running and others...

Mortal muppets nestled inside the sock drawer of...

Dave Frederick
3 weeks ago
Marauding middle schoolers - A scheduled middle school cross country meet Oct. 29 at Killens Pond...

Shiny, happy people laughing at Sea Witch 5K

Dave Frederick
4 weeks ago
Happy Together! Beautiful spirits and smiling faces. I don't know if I’ve ever been that happy on a...

Come get these sports memories

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
We Are the Champions! I lifted the following paragraph from Jay Futcher’s obituary, which appears...

The world of school sports is full of surprise and...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Captain Marvel - Forty-five years a sports reporter, and I still feel great surprise and wonderment...

There are no dead heats in cross country races

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Dead heat - I was heading to JV field hockey when I saw there was a middle school cross country...

Every athlete teaches life lessons

1 month ago
Harrington Harrier - Matt Sparacino, representing Races2Run in a Seashore Striders racing event,...

Coaches are the unsung heroes of middle school 

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
National Coaches Day - Like most fans, I didn’t know Monday was National Coaches Day. That was...

Cape and family are one and the same after 50 years...

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Cape and family - Susan, Davey and I left Lewes Saturday for a 10 a.m. JV field hockey game between...

Blocker doctors double team at Midway Chiropractic

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Blocker doctors - Dr. Trip DelCampo of Midway Chiropractic has welcomed Dr. Devin Miller into his...

Sports fans are the snap dragons in the stands

Dave Frederick
1 month ago
Lightning and liftgating - A Thursday night field hockey game was delayed. I sat on the bumper of...

Sharp as a leather ball, facing down pressure free...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Dogfish Dash - If Cape had chosen Dogfish as a mascot 55 years ago instead of Vikings, then...

Three Cape lacrosse girls commit to Delaware

2 months ago
Yo, Chief! Cosmic connections running through a Philly house cat named Chief. Delaware associate...

Wisecracks and jokes inside sports stories. You...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Wisecracker - I stood at the podium for the girls’ state championship lacrosse banquet at the Lewes...

Touchdown Jesus sees the entire field at Notre Dame

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Touchdown Jesus - The 34-foot mural that resides in the distance of Notre Dame’s library lawn is...

Free and overpriced is my business plan for sports...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Free and overpriced - I often describe the photography part of my life as free and overpriced. That...

Positive people lead the way in sports, a culture...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Chattahoochie - Allen Jackson is a good kid. He is a fireman/first responder at Station 85 in...

Cool sometimes collides with fashionable in athletic...

2 months ago
Degraded retrograded Fredpop - I am a walking throwback living in modern times. I wear New Balance...

Local kids dot the landscape of college sports rosters

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Lost in transition - The running season transitions from summer to fall with barely a wobble. The...

Don’t hijack Ronnie Mac, better to snag the Lewes...

Dave Frederick
2 months ago
Ronnie Mac - Why don’t you hurry back? Jim Murray (1938-2025) was an American professional football...

Black Girls Run chooses Outlet Liquors 5K for annual...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Chapter and verse - I am well versed in the sport of running. Just open the book to any chapter and...

Soul searching – a photographic memory keeps images...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Soul searching - I move about in a world of fit people pursuing healthy lifestyles. In 2016, I was...

Sports rules and regulations go from serious to silly

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Knick-Knacker - Caravel Academy softball coach Randy Johnson (School Lane - Cape kid) was suspended...

A confabulous morning running down dreams of...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Confabulation - I chose the word to describe old coaches kicking around sports stories and shared...

Runners’ shirts are a tidal wave of messages, none...

3 months ago
A sea of shirts - I photograph running races. The T-shirts flowing past my camera are a tidal wave...

Pets and throw rugs account for most orthopaedic...

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
El Hombre Blanco - Martin Rodriguez jokingly calls me “Mi Amigo Blanco.” I call Martin “Mi Amigo...

Wasabi and Westminster talked up at Race for the Paws

Dave Frederick
3 months ago
Wazzup Wasabi - The Wazzup Bud Lite commercials first aired in 1999. The routine was created by...

Sitting inside the circle of shade at Champions...

3 months ago
Slim Shady - I sat in a chair inside a circle of shade cast by the Darby Klopp Girl Scouts scoring...

Slimline sneakers now trending with the style set

3 months ago
Slim sneakers - I have photographed and written about so many foot traffic races over five decades...

Bob Barnes always remembered the kids he coached and...

4 months ago
Bob Barnes - Little League coach Bob Barnes died July 8. He was a longtime Lewes Board of Public...

Athletic scholarships are structured and shrouded in...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Take it to the House - The recent House v. NCAA settlement of a lawsuit effective for the 2025-26...

Holy goalie, Batman. The Riddler returns to guard...

4 months ago
The Riddler - Izzy Mekulski was a question mark last field hockey season as a first-year starter as...

Bernie Gallagher’s running resumé boggles the mind

4 months ago
Bernie’s bio - Bernie Gallagher, 84, walked the Seashore 5-Miler July 13, crossing the finish line...

Jules Woodall goes for 200th consecutive Ten Sisters...

4 months ago
Jules Woodall - Jules, 76, is a relentless runner, a tall guy and a nice guy. This Saturday, he...

Restrictive rules gave athletes more free time...

4 months ago
Rules of restrictions - The hot summer months used to be a cooling-off period for school-aged...

Roger Franks: Hall of fame swimmer, father of...

4 months ago
Roger Franks - I emceed the Delaware Sports Hall of Fame banquet in 1997. I remember introducing 70...

Emeritus man running a fade pattern across the...

Dave Frederick
4 months ago
Emeritus man - A retired guy who recognized me from a People in Sports column photo asked, “What...

If you bash a local Muppet, the matrix comes back to...

4 months ago
Muppet Matrix - “Muppets don’t bash other muppets,” that is the code at Sesame Street by the Sea...

Jungle Jim’s more tame than the Sports Complex that...

5 months ago
Jungle Jim’s - Do you remember the giant water slide at Jungle Jim’s called The Rampage? That thing...

Savannah Bananas run trophy to Lewes Beach for a bay...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Savannah Bananas - I made a joke about the podium being purchased from the Laurel Flea Market...

Slippery when wet: A sports life connected by song...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Vanilla Fudge - A slippery-when-wet Rehoboth Boardwalk with Sunday morning drizzle welcomed 353...

Athletes in action powered by play, not slowed by...

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Mostly cloudy - I cover the sports of field hockey and girls’ lacrosse, both competitions governed...

Character is the essence of the athlete revealed in...

5 months ago
Championship connections - I took a photo of the Clampitts after graduation and didn’t drop one...

Contagious celebrations in a neurodiverse universe

5 months ago
Team Reese - Reese Cathcart is a Mariner sixth-grader who plays field hockey and lacrosse. The 18th...

The Sussex Guide: Tim Holton runs tethered to Joe...

5 months ago
Sussex Guide - Tim Holton is, among other things, a transplant to Sussex County from Brooklyn, N.Y...

Moronic moments: We came to get down so jump around

Dave Frederick
5 months ago
Moronic Moment - "Watch out, moron!” “No, you da Moron!” “Life is a highway. I wanna ride it all...

We are the champions, my friends; track athletes...

6 months ago
Two guys - There is no more athletic event on the track than the 110-meter high hurdles. It...

Runner is a two-time state champion, same event on...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Two-time state champion - Junior McKenzie Winward of Newark Charter School is the two-time DII...

Champions compete without fear of failure

6 months ago
Champions Stadium - Step on the track or inside the lines in any sport and you are a champion with...

State track championships are a two-day lesson in...

6 months ago
Security blanket - The two-day divisional track championships held May 9-10 at Dover High School...

Keep your shirt on, just change colors

6 months ago
Polashirt - It’s a Philly pronunciation from my childhood – short sleeves, no collar, usually with...

‘Smile for the camera’ not what finishing runners...

Dave Frederick
6 months ago
Smile on request - I don’t smile and I don’t take requests. But that's just me. Jackie Rams, a...

You can’t go home again, but home is where the heart is

6 months ago
Home is where the heart is - “You Can’t Go Home Again” is a novel by Thomas Wolfe that was...

Ice bag becomes swag for injured freshman Emmilyn...

6 months ago
Dislocated and mislocated - Emmilyn Swope has an effervescent personality. She is a freshman two-...