Frederick A. Shabel[2] (March 20, 1932 – February 26, 2023) was an American sports executive and college basketball player and coach.

He was a player-coach for the Shaw AFB basketball team which won its district and earned second place in the World Wide Air Force Championships.

Shabel says he talked over the decision with Duke head coach Vic Bubas, who told him, "You can win 17 games there and it's the Yankee Conference, not the ACC.

[11] After four seasons with the Huskies, Shabel decided to retire from coaching, saying in a 2003 interview, "The W's and L's were difficult to handle and I began to understand that I did not see myself with a sweat shirt and a whistle at age 50."

[8] In 1980, Shabel left Penn to become an executive at Spectacor, a sports company which owns several professional teams and arenas in the Philadelphia area.