Khadijah Rushdan
Khadijah Rushdan was an All-Big East basketball player at Rutgers University who played professionally overseas. The St. Elizabeth High School graduate was the first Delaware high school athlete in any sport to be named first team All-State five times. At Rutgers, she recovered from a torn ACL to make first team All-Big East as senior. […]
Bob King
Bob King has been a leader in Delaware track and field, as an athlete, coach, and civic volunteer. At Howard High School, he was twice the state cross country champion, setting a high school record of 10:48 at Rockford Park’s 2.3-mile course that lasted a decade. He also scored in the 100 and long jump […]
Joe Holloway
Joe Holloway, who began at Brandywine Raceway in his early teens, became one of the nation’s most successful harness trainers, developing the sport’s record-holding pacer. He was the U.S. Harness Writers Association’s Trainer of the Year in 1995 and inducted into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame in 2019. Holloway trained seven Breeder’s Crown winners […]
Dave Frederick
After a decade of coaching Cape Henlopen High School to track and cross country championships, Dave Frederick became a sports columnist with a statewide following for the next four decades. He coached Cape’s boys to Division Two titles in outdoor track in 1976 and 1978, indoor track championships in 1984 and 1985, and Cape’s first […]
Katelyn Falgowski
Katelyn Falgowski was a three-time member of the United States Olympic field hockey team, and NCAA Division I National Player of the Year at University of North Carolina. The midfielder from St. Mark’s High School had one of the sport’s most decorated playing careers, earning six gold, three silver, and two bronze medals with the […]
Juliet Bottorff
Juliet Bottorff was the NCAA 10,000-meter champion at Duke University, where she was a nine-time All-American, after dominating Delaware high school track for three years at Tatnall. She won the 2011 NCAA collegiate championship in the 10,000-meter run in just her third race at the distance. It was one of six times that she was […]
Matt Minker
Matthew C. “Matt” Minker played a major role in bringing professional baseball back to Wilmington after a 35-year hiatus and building Frawley Stadium, home of the Blue Rocks, which sparked the renaissance of Wilmington’s waterfront. Minker’s lifelong passion was baseball. He played varsity baseball at Conrad High, the University of Delaware and in Wilmington’s semi-pro […]
Doug White
Delaware long-distance running ace Doug White has achieved a milestone matched by only five other athletes in the world. Through 2011, Doug has qualified for and completed 39 consecutive Boston Marathons –a race considered one of the most grueling sporting events on the planet. He also holds multiple Delaware distance running records. The Dickinson High […]
Larry Wheeler
Larry Wheeler became the all-time winningest high school baseball coach in the history of the state of Delaware in 2010, surpassing the record of Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame inductee The Rev. Robert Kenny from Salesianum. In Wheeler’s first 31 years as head baseball coach his teams amassed a record of 419-169 at […]
Sheldon Thomas
Sheldon Thomas is arguably the greatest wrestler in Delaware history, having been a three-time NCAA Division I All-American for Clarion University, where he also won an NCAA title at 118 pounds in 1996. Thomas is the only Delawarean to win an NCAA mat championship. Sheldon wrestled for St. Marks High School, where he earned four […]