Frederick College was a four-year private co-educational college formerly located in Portsmouth, Virginia. The school was created in through a grant from the Fred W. Beazley Foundation (now the Beazley Foundation). [1] It originally opened in 1958 as a two-year school [2] on the grounds of a former munitions depot [1] before becoming a four-year school in 1961. The school closed in 1968 and the land was given to the Virginia Community College System to form Tidewater Community College.
Nicknamed the Lions, [3] Frederick competed at the NCAA small college level (now Division II) and had a 3600-seat football stadium. The coach of the men's basketball team was Bob Hodges. [2] Behind the play of Tom Jasper, they won the Small College National Championship in the late 1960s. [4] The school had a track team from 1961 to 1964 which was undefeated in the 1963–64 season and was coached by John Meroney.