After Paris Olympics, swimmer Katie Ledecky returns home to Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart and Little Flower Parish
For champion swimmer Katie Ledecky, one of the best things about winning Olympic medals is sharing them.
And after returning from the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris with two gold medals, a bronze and a silver medal, she did just that, visiting her alma mater, Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, Maryland, to show students her medals and to talk about her Olympic experiences. She also stopped by her parish, the Church of the Little Flower in Bethesda.
Addressing Stone Ridge Middle School students at the school’s Cokie Boggs Roberts Theater during an Oct. 22 visit to the school, Ledecky said, “My favorite thing has been being able to do things like this, and being able to share these medals with my community and with people. I call it the power of the gold medal, the way showing a gold medal to someone can light up their face or make them smile.”