Still Waters Run Deep With Swimmer Katie Ledecky: Inside the Journey to Her Third Olympic Games
. "My dad is a big Bruce Springsteen fan. He's been to 30, 40 concerts, maybe less, I don't know. Big fan. I have probably 400 Bruce Springsteen songs on my iPod just from different shows and everything, so I became a fan pretty early on."Ledecky went pro after her sophomore year, signing her first endorsement deal with swimwear company TYR, which proudly called it "the most lucrative partnership in the history of the swim industry.
And after only five years , Ledecky graduated from Stanford with her BA in psychology last month. Already in Omaha for the Olympic trials, she fittingly posed in her cap and gown by the pool. Remaining in Palo Alto, like countless others she moved her life onto her laptop, taking classes online, talking to kids' swim clubs around the country over Zoom and
She worked out in her living room and, of course, she found someone's backyard pool to swim around in for a few months while Stanford's facilities were closed.recalled first meeting Ledecky at the 2012 Olympic trials and then rooming with her the following year during training camp in Barcelona.