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Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky has set another world record, this time in the 800 meter free at the Woodlands Senior Invitational. Her time, 8:11. That’s over two seconds off her former record and previous mark. Just two days ago, Ledecky re-broke her world record in the 1,500 meter freestyle, also by lopping off two […]

Olympic gold medalist Katie Ledecky, who hails from Bethesda, has set another world record. This time she crushed her own world record in the 1,500 m freestyle. Ledecky on her WR in the 1500m free: "I really didn’t think I was going to go anywhere close to the world record.” http://t.co/zb1a7AEaAI — Reach for theWall […]

Olympic Gold Medalist and four-time World Champion swimmer Katie Ledecky, a junior at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart and a member of the Nation’s Capital Swim Club, announced on May 15 her verbal commitment to swim for Stanford University’s NCAA Division I Women’s Swimming & Diving Team following completion of her high school […]

The Germantown Indoor Swim Center was the site for the 2014 Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships. There were over 50 teams participating, private and public schools, and there was an Olympic Gold medalist who even set a couple of new records in the pool. MyMCMedia’s Sonya Burke reports. There were seven Metro records set […]

Stone Ridge won the 200-yard freestyle Relay Feb. 8 at the Washington Metropolitan Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming Championships held at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center. Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky anchored the team with Cecila Gasaway, Kelleigh Haley and Laura Garcia. They swam the event in 1:36.14 minutes. Related:

Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky set a new Metros record Feb. 8 in the 200-yard Freestyle at the Washington Metropolitan Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming Championships in Germantown. Ledecky is a junior at Stone Ridge and swam the event in 1:42.38. Related:

In this MyMCMedia extra, the head coach of Stone Ridge, Bob Walker, explains what it was like to see his team’s star swimmer, Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky, set another record this time at Metros at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center. Related:  

In this MyMCMedia extra, Sonya Burke talks to Olympic Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky, a Stone Ridge student, about what it was like to compete in the high school swimming championships at Metros this past weekend; what’s next for her training schedule; and, is she watching the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi? Take a look: Below […]

Stone Ridge’s Katie Ledecky broke the American record in the 500 free tonight (Feb. 7) during prelims at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center, which is the setting this weekend for the 2014 Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships. Ledecky’s record setting time: 4:28:71. In this cell phone video you can watch Ledecky (center lane, […]

Bethesda resident and Olympic champion Katie Ledecky continues to bring home the gold. Ledecky set a new world record this summer in the 800 meter freestyle and brought home four gold medals – one for each of the events she competed in at the world swimming championships in Barcelona. Since returning home, she’s been spending […]