VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

(Photo Credit: VBCA)

Bennington/Arlington

Basketball Coach/Administrator

Inducted 2023

David ‘Dave’ Fredrickson had an incredible 36-year basketball coaching career at both Arlington Memorial High School and Mount Anthony Union High School from 1963 to 1999, and has served the sport in the Green Mountain State for over six decades. 

During his 36 years as the head boy’s basketball coach at Arlington and Mount Anthony, Fredrickson posted 505 wins, among the most in Vermont high school history.  His teams won 18 league titles and appeared in the state Final Four 17 years.  Fredrickson took Mount Anthony to the championship game 10 times and captured eight state titles, his first coming in 1974.  It includes a Vermont record five-straight crowns between 1988 and 1992. He is the only coach at MAU to win a boy’s basketball state title.

He also led the Patriots to three trips to the now-defunct New England Basketball Tournament in 1974, 1975 and 1976, including a loss at the buzzer in one title game.

After graduation from Springfield College he took a teaching job at Arlington in 1963 where his boys basketball teams won four Molly Stark League titles in four years. He also coached field hockey at Arlington and later was also on the football staff at Mount Anthony.

Since his retirement from teaching and coaching in 1999, Fredrickson has served as the part-time Executive Director of the Vermont Basketball Coaches Association. His duties include organizing the annual coaching clinic, the highly successful North South Senior All-Star Classic featuring four all-star games for both boys and girls, weekly high school polls and the VBCA’s statewide awards. He also heads up fund-raising for the VBCA’s scholarship fund for Vermont high school student-athletes. 

Also after leaving Mount Anthony, Fredrickson also offered basketball assistance and scouting for several teams, including the Southern Vermont College Mountaineers.

Fredrickson was a charter inductee in 2002 to the New England Basketball Hall of Fame and also has been inducted into the VPA Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Vermont Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2006.