Ledecky, who hails from Bethesda, Md., completed her degree at Stanford this year and, after swimming in her third Olympic Games, is taking the opportunity to be closer to home and family while training for the next phase of her swimming career.
Ledecky is an eight-time NCAA Champion and in her two years of collegiate swimming helped lead Stanford to back-to-back Pac-12 and NCAA team titles in 2017 and 2018, while breaking NCAA records 15 times and NCAA Championship meet records six times. She became just the second freshman ever to be awarded the Honda Cup (2017) and was the first sophomore ever to be named CoSida Academic All-America Team Member of the Year across all Division I sports (2018).
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As a 10-time Olympic Medalist and 15-time World Championship gold medalist, Ledecky has broken world records 14 times and American records 37 times in her career. She has won more gold medals in individual events than any Team USA female athlete in any sport. At the Tokyo Olympics, she also made history by becoming the first Team USA female swimmer to win an individual event (800-meter freestyle) in three straight Olympics, and by winning the first-ever women's 1500-meter freestyle event.
AÂ three-time USOPC SportsWoman of the Year, Ledecky was also the most decorated Team USA female athlete in any sport for the second straight Olympic Games.
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