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Dr. Gary David Wray, 78, of Lewes, passed away peacefully late at night Thursday, Feb. 3, 2022, surrounded by so much love, after a very short and very courageous battle with cancer. Gary was diagnosed with terminal cancer two weeks before Christmas. ....
May the circle be unbroken Olivia Weir cartwheels across a 5K finish line in 2011. She’s now on the gymnastics team at the University of Maryland. DAVE FREDERICK PHOTOS Dave Frederick Nine to Big Ten - As a 9-year-old, Olivia Weir cartwheeled across the finish line in a 5K in Rehoboth Beach. I caught the action with my camera and a woman said, “How did you get that photo?” I said, “You have to know your athletes.” That was 10 years ago; now Olivia is on the gymnastics team at the University of Maryland. I saw her on the Big 10 Network doing her balance beam and uneven bars routines. Olivia is spry and springy and courageously athletic; in other words, she is absolutely insane. Olivia, a freshman out of Garnet Valley High School in Pennsylvania, had a personal best 9.725 on the balance beam in the Terps’ recent win over Rutgers. ....
Youthful leader has had seven state champions Cape coach Chris Mattioni gives his wrestler instructions during a match in the 2014 state tournament. NICK ROTH PHOTO Dave Frederick December 24, 2020 Chris Mattioni rolled off Route 1 and Kings Highway into a job interview at Cape Henlopen in the summer of 1995, securing a social studies position sweetened by being named head coach of the wrestling team. Mattioni had wrestled at Valley Forge Military Academy and The Citadel, then spent two years coaching at Stanford High School in Goose Creek, S.C. He is not a stiff and buttoned-up personality who prefers to be called sir, but more the gracious, loquacious and affable teacher-coach type guy. ....