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Katie Ledecky

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"I just like to swim…fast. I don't think about the distance."

WATCH: Selected race videos from DC Metro Champs, including Vissering & Ledecky

Check out race video’s from Washington DC’s exciting high school state championship meet that included American record-breaker Katie Ledecky and USC commit Carsten Vissering.

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Georgetown Prep Boys, Churchill Girls Win D.C. Metro Champs Titles as Ledecky Takes it to 11

There’s always stars on parade at the D.C. Metro Champs meet, but swimmer-after-swimmer-after-swimmer all bring it back to one thing in their interviews: team.

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RACE VIDEO: Watch Katie Ledecky Swim 4:27.88 in 500 Free

Just one night after swimming the fastest 500 free by a female swimmer in history, Stone Ridge High School’s Katie Ledecky swam…

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WATCH: Katie Ledecky knocks off national high school 200 free record with 1:41.55

Katie Ledecky continues to tear through her senior year of high school, breaking the national high school record in the 200 free at finals of the DC Metro Champs.

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RACE VIDEO: Watch Katie Ledecky Swim Mind-Boggling 4:26 in the 500 Free

Dave Bell captured Katie Ledecky’s historic swim on Friday in prelims at the D.C. Metro Champs meet at Germantown Indoor Swim Center.

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VIDEO: Katie Ledecky Press Talks About Her Last High School Meet

Katie Ledecky finished her last high school meet on Saturday at the DC Metro Champs meet where she broke one…

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Katie Ledecky Lowers Her 200 Freestyle National High School Record

Only seven days after Katie Ledecky broke the National High School record in the 200 freestyle at the WMPSSDL Championships, she lowers…

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Ledecky goes 4:27.88 in DC Metro Champs finals for 2nd-fastest 500 in history

Just an hour or so after breaking the national high school record in the 200 free, Katie Ledecky was back to put up the second-fastest 500 free time in history, just off her American record set last night.

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Katie Ledecky smashes American record with 4:26.58 in the 500 freestyle

At 17 years old, Ledecky is now the fastest woman in history in the event by nearly four full seconds.

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Katie Ledecky stars in Stone Ridge School’s ‘Gators Go Turf’ mock-umentary

National High School record-holder. Olympic champion. Destroyer of World Records. And now Katie Ledecky can add “movie star” to her list of accolades.

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Katie Ledecky Downs 200 Freestyle National High School Record

It just doesn’t stop.  Less than two weeks after scaring multiple long course meters world records at the Arena Pro Swim…

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Katie Ledecky Highlights ISL Championships; Three Meet Records Fall

Ledecky posted the second fastest time in the country for the calendar year, winning the 500 freestyle with her time of 4:45.99.

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22 New Olympic Trials Qualifiers Emerge at Pro Swim Series – Austin

Purdue commit Haley Rowell came up big in Austin, with 6 lifetime bests, including 3 new Olympic Trials cuts.

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What Do the Stats Say: A Look at the Final 2014 World Rankings

The American Women and Men each suffered a drop in the quantity of #1 world-ranked times from 2013 to 2014, but other countries saw a rise in their overall world performance.

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Watch Katie Ledecky swim 4:00 In 400m Free – Arena Pro Swim RACE VIDEO

To put Ledecky’s unshaven, in-season 4:00 in the 400m free into perspective, Federica Pellegrini’s 3:59.15 at the 2009 World Championships was the only swim faster, and that was in a rubberized tech-suit.

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