About the Foundation

The Cole Frederking Legacy Foundation is a 501(c)(3) will help support educational assistance for high school students and high school departments in need. EIN # 99-5040359

Cole strived for excellence in everything he did. He set a goal and achieved it. In his younger years, he gave 100% to baseball, soccer, running, Boy Scouts and school. After his cancer diagnosis in 2020, he refocused his energy to maintaining a positive attitude during treatment, getting a 4.0 in school and reinvented himself, becoming a determined and accomplished actor with StageFlight Theatre at Mountain Vista High School. 

In only two short years in high school, he performed in four plays, and helped frequently with stage tech. His most rewarding role was Trinculo in Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The Tempest received a superior commendation from Colorado Thespians in 2023! 

Throughout four-years of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, he never complained. Cole simply got up in the morning and made the best of the situation he was handed. 

Cole loved life. He found joy in even the hardest places. Cole was known for his kindness, intellect, quick-wit, deep thinking, high moral standards, and excellent sense of humor. 

One of his final wishes was to help other children battling cancer. He decided to courageously donate his tumor to science. In doing this, he hoped researchers and scientists will be able to use his tumor to find better therapies and maybe a permanent cure for Wilms’ Tumor. 

Although we will never understand why he was chosen for this long and difficult cancer journey, and while the loss of our beloved Cole leaves a tremendous hole in our hearts and lives, we will do our best to live life the way Cole would have wanted – show up and bring everything you have. We are committed to carrying on the legacies he was building as well as those he will never have the chance to begin or fulfill.

He taught us all what determination, perseverance and joyfulness look like.