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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 […]

Here are some scenes from Saturday’s (Feb. 8) prelims at the Germantown Indoor Swim Center, which is the setting for the 2014 Washington Metropolitan Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships. The swimming finals take place Saturday night. Photos are courtesy of photographer Phil Fabrizio.

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, […]

UPDATED Bethesda’s Katie Ledecky (16), a rising junior at the Stone Ridge School, has set a world record in the 1,500 freestyle at the World Championships in Barcelona with a record time of 15:36.53 smashing the previous record by six seconds. Just two days on July 28, Ledecky brought home gold winning the 400 free with a […]

Bethesda resident and Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Katie Ledecky talks about her coaches in this video clip and shares an inside story from the Olympic games in London. She also thanks her hometown fans for all their support. Watch this video for more. Ledecky, who is only 15-years old, is a sophomore at Stone Ridge […]

Montgomery County Council President Roger Berliner delivers County Council proclamations to the three U.S. Olympic athletes from Bethesda. Take a look.

The Olympics may be over but our local athletes are still the talk of the town. Three Bethesda-based Olympic athletes were celebrated by local officials and residents at the Bethesda Metro Center on August 24. Olympic Swimmer and Gold Medalist Katie Ledecky, Kayaker Scott Parsons and Rhythmic Gymnast Julie Zetlin were honored for their hard […]

As it should be: our top video (as of mid-August) is Katie Ledecky’s homecoming at Dulles International Airport. In one week, this MyMCMedia report received over 548 views. That makes it a popular video on both our You Tube page and our website: archive.mymcmedia.org. Ledecky, who hails from Bethesda, won a gold medal at the […]