People in Sports

Sports Editor Emeritus

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Clearing the decks: tracking athletes and coaches

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Injured and Ignored - Injured athletes and those not in the rotation for reasons unknown stand on...

Youngest to oldest runners embrace the day and what...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Sub masters - The combined ages of the first three runners at the Shamrock Shuffle 5K March...

Faith, hope and love - the three leaves of the lucky...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Luck of the Irish - A decade of fun St. Patrick’s Day practices has resulted in 10 straight state...

Poppy Kevin Smith is running while Joe is biding his...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Poppy is running, but is Joe? - Little Poppy Kevin Smith had a 30-year career working for Joe Biden...

Track has a no-cut policy and most state titles in...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Carnival barkers - Spring track and field has big numbers at Beacon and Mariner middle schools, and...

Cape girls’ lacrosse reconfigures, chasing 11th...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Reconfiguration - The 2019 Cape girls’ lacrosse team practiced on the Champions Stadium turf March...

Stratton cousins and Sussex County kinship

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Pick-up game - The Stratton cousins Ambria and Raeonna, now seniors, have started the last four...

Taylor and Trey Hatfield: Siblings together in the...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
I Don’t Want To Talk About It - Rod Stewart - Two consecutive weekends, totaling four days, I was...

Everybody cries when the tough guy dies

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Fred twins doubled up - We all cry when the tough guy dies. John Forestieri passed away peacefully...

Davey Fred is the ultimate unifier of downstate...

Davey Frederick
5 years ago
Reverse Unifier - Davey Fred, “The Inclusion Kid,” was all over the Henlopen Conference...

BJ Joseph, the quintessential point guard, steps off...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
BJ Joseph steps off - Boys’ basketball coach BJ Joseph retired from the craziness of high school...

The mystery of monies and the real costs of college

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
The mystery of monies - If I cared about money, I’d have a lot more, but discussions of finances...

Big guys grow up trying not to hurt their friends

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
What up big guy? My older brother Tom , nicknamed Moose, grew up the biggest guy on the block. He...

Old dogs pose in a snow squall to capture a...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Field and Stream - A quiet snow squall caught us all by surprise Friday afternoon, prompting...

Something strange happens when a girls’ game is...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Something strange happened - On Jan. 29, the undefeated Woodbridge girls’ basketball team beat...

Cape to start middle school club lacrosse for girls

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
My bad - I was on the record in recent history saying I thought the addition of middle school cross...

Graciousness the upside of good sportsmanship

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Good graciousness - The Cape wrestling win at Sussex Tech was in the books 45-21, and I rose up...

Kids share magical moments with coach/parents

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Come get these memories - An important game Friday night at Cape’s Big House. The bleachers are...

Everyday people inspire others every day

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Rules of Engagement - I arrived at Dover High Jan. 8 to photograph the Cape girls’ basketball game...

Smyrna wrestling showed sportsmanship in sudden loss...

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Part of the game - The Cape wrestling team beat Smyrna in the Big House 34-33 Jan. 9 for the first...

Caruso is a good guy who wants to be a teacher/coach

Dave Frederick
5 years ago
Choir boy - I sat down with Cape wrestler Anthony Caruso Tuesday morning at Cape, deciding not to...

Destiny’s Child leads the Eagles to New Orleans to...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Destiny’s Child - “We” do not control our own destiny, because fate is predetermined. Nick Foles to...

Postcards from the Fred: Players are primetime...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Postcards from the Fred - This column, “People in Sports,” has been here for 37 years. Sometimes it...

High-performance two-sport athlete Jamie Schirmer...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Big Diesel Cat - Jamie Schirmer is a Sussex Tech senior and homegrown citizen of the 684. He weighs...

The Beast of the East is an absolute bear

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Skin in the game -The Beast of the East wrestling tournament contested at the University of...

My cat was away in a manger, but later he came back

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Christmas column - My tomcat had a case of the manger once, so he wouldn’t come in from the barn...

Cape girls’ basketball teams’ combined 134-4 score...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Task force talk - No trash talk, no tough talk and no character-building seminars. Someone up the...

Cape Big House rocks with impact players outside the...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Impact player - Luke Williams rolled into Cape as “the new kid,” and because of the junior’s...

Get up and give back, Sean Mann directs Mariner...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Walk like a Mann - Sean Mann, head coach of Mariner wrestling and former heavyweight at Cape,...

Runners and wrestlers are a tough breed who go at it...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Crash cart - Ron Carpenter, 69, of Hudson, Mont. (not the 6-foot-7 Cape basketball guy from the ’...

John Collins and service dog Mahi show respect...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Head on a swivel - I call the gym at Sussex Central “The Happy House” after the Golden Knights won...

Downstate football doubles down at Delaware

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Double down at Delaware - My journalist colleagues from the News Journal, Brad Myers and Kevin...

In Delaware sports history, we are all related to...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Connections - Jeremy and Josh Bushweller are twins who played on the Dover football team that beat...

Running kids love the game and just endure the pain

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Pain management - An incredible number of young athletes under 13 are showing up in 5K races...

Americans don’t need a holiday excuse to overeat

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Cold turkey - I miss being crazy and running in freezing weather that’s so windy and cold it...

Cape hockey family rocked by passing of Bill Windett...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
A Prayer for Bill Windett - On Nov. 14, the extended Cape hockey family lost Bill Windett, husband...

Signing day is a single step in the right direction

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Signing Day - Each signing day, I take photos of ceremonial signings by students who commit by...

Sports and society is a two-way mirror of life...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Turn on those sad songs - The rhythm of the falling rain poured down over Cape’s Senior Night Nov...

Cape quarterback connections reach across the cosmos

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Cosmic Cape quarterback connections - Quarterback Merek Harrigan-Ferro wears No. 5 and reminds me...

Capturing the good in all of us under the Friday...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Auto Focus - The national anthem plays before a game, and I remove my headgear and my camera...

Fun and success mesh with competitive spirit for...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Cosmic Razzmatazz - Cape field hockey is heading into another state tournament next week, and there...

Autism Awareness Week includes the captains circle...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Shelter in place - I show up super early for sports assignments, then I just hang out in my 4Runner...

Walk tall and carry a measuring wheel

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Walking Tall - I was sitting in my 14-year-old 4Runner at Browns Branch County Park off Killens...

Magic Jack, built like an acrobat, hits 5K trail run...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Magic Jack Noel - Jack, an actual magician, finished the Bethel Trail Run 5K in 43:24 on his 80th...

Gobbledygook: the language used to deflect realities...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Robust club teams - Gobbledygook is a word I reserve for academics who throw shade on sensitive...

Philly photographer on the road, the coach takes my...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Ghost town - This is the only photo in existence with all three Dave Fredericks in it. The...

Jack McPike to be honorary captain for Cape...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Healing Hands - The Cape football team of 2018 has reached back a decade to touch tradition and to...

Cagey Coverdale still a closer on the field hockey...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Cagey Coverdale - Erin Coverdale is the most unlikely-looking assassin on the hockey field, and off...

Rules of engagement - Conor unfurls banner to...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Peyton’s place - I’m the gramps guy taking thousands of finish photos at the Dogfish Dash,...

Halftime walk to locker room through hot dog line...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Deuce it up - It’s not easy for a young football player to walk through the hot dog crowd at...

Comcast to Coach Fred 37 years and a minute late

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Coach and Comcast - A Comcast technician stepped out of his truck onto my driveway 37 years and one...

Everybody knows somebody at Taste of Sposato 5K run

6 years ago
Everybody knows your name - Daisy Hughes is the face everyone knows at a saturated Sunday morning...

Checking out sports practices to get a sense of it all

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Go to what I know - I’ve been sportswriter for 36 years, and it’s been a 42 years since I coached a...

Sports mirror life in a happy to sad haphazard pattern

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Rough patch - Cape football left the bus barn for the 2018 season and has encountered a pair...

Darby Klopp glitters like gold, upping everyone’s game

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Girl Scout Gold Award - “You got gold, gold inside of you, well I got some, gold inside me too.” -...

Lilly Barnett is a story we share, an image that...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Keeping composure - I caught it as I lost it down in Delmar Friday night, sitting on the...

Riley and Rylie meet at Seattle cannabis convention

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
The Enforcer - Riley Cote played eight years in the NHL, including four as a left winger for the...

Keep on dancing and a-prancing, Warshauers married...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Keep on dancing - I photographed Rich Warshauer as he finished the Last Blast Prediction 5K on Sept...

Biscuit Bobby Knox was a 1,000-yard rusher for Cape...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Hard Knox - That’s a good way to describe the Cape running back that friends and teammates called...

Kids are cool, so step back with your big helium...

Dave Frederick
6 years ago
Who am I, Art Linkletter? - Art wrote a series of books, “Kids Say the Darndest Things,” based on...