by admin | Aug 6, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Swimmers from 189 countries are in the Paris Olympics pool competing for medals. The official medals table doesn’t show this, but a small all-girls Catholic school from Bethesda, Md., has bagged more hardware than all but seven of them. If Stone Ridge School of the...
by admin | Aug 5, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Every year on Aug. 3, Katie Ledecky is reminded of her first Olympic gold medal. She was just 15 years old, a reserved high schooler who had surprisingly made the U.S. swim team for the London Games. Then she went out and shocked the world, beating everyone in the...
by admin | Aug 2, 2024 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
Katie Ledecky is now the most decorated American woman in Olympic history. With a silver medal Thursday in the 4×200 meter relay, Ledecky won her 13th medal, breaking a tie with swimmers Natalie Coughlin, Jenny Thompson and Dara Torres. Read More
by admin | Aug 1, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Down and back she went — 50 meters at a time, 30 times in all. In the pool, Katie Ledecky is the model of consistency. From lap to lap and from Olympics to Olympics. She was once the youngest member of the U.S. Olympic team. She won gold then, an unassuming, cheery...
by admin | May 3, 2024 | Representation, SEW
There isn’t much Katie Ledecky hasn’t accomplished in a swimming pool. The 27-year-old is already a seven-time Olympic gold medalist, the most decorated individual female swimmer of all time, and the most recognizable active athlete in her sport. Unphased and...
by admin | Apr 19, 2024 | Representation, SEW
The Olympic flame has officially been lit, the 2024 Paris Games are now exactly 100 days away − and, for Team USA, it’s already time for final preparations. “You can feel the energy and the excitement building − certainly inside the walls of our...
by admin | Mar 11, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Katie Ledecky wrote a memoir — “Just Add Water” — that comes out June 11, four days before the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials. The book “charts Ledecky’s life in swimming,” according to Simon & Schuster. “I first started keeping a journal when I was 14 years old, to...
by admin | Dec 15, 2023 | Representation, SEW
With their 12-year-old daughter, Katie, swimming nearby, Shari and Christian Grimes stood on the pool deck talking to Sandpipers of Nevada coach Chris Barber. Christian had just been offered the deputy fire chief job in Logan, Utah, and the family was considering...
by admin | Nov 22, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Katie Ledecky and Kate Douglass shared Female Athlete of the Year in a first-ever tie at USA Swimming’s annual Golden Goggle Awards. Ledecky, who won the 800m and 1500m freestyles at July’s world championships, earned her record-extending ninth Athlete of the Year...
by admin | Jul 31, 2023 | Representation, SEW
Olympic champion Katie Ledecky on Saturday broke Michael Phelps’ record for most individual world swimming titles. At the World Aquatic Championships in Fukoka, Japan, Ledecky collected her 16th world title by winning the 800-meter freestyle, her favorite...
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