Thanks to Katie Ledecky, Erin Gemmel and Phoebe Bacon, Maryland’s Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart has won plenty of hardware in Paris.
By Rick Maese, The Washington PostLedecky poses with an 11-year-old Erin Gemmell, the daughter of Ledecky’s former coach, Bruce.
“It’s pretty incredible,” said Ledecky, who is a favorite to reach the medals podium one last time, racing Saturday in the women’s 800 freestyle. “… Just really proud of those two, proud to represent Stone Ridge, everyone back home.” Ledecky graduated from Stone Ridge in 2015, five years before Bacon and eight before Gemmell. But the trio have been close for many years.“There’s an age difference, but I’ve known them both since they were very, very young,” Ledecky said. “… Just to see them grow up before my eyes all the way to the Olympics is pretty crazy.”
Understanding how one school with a high school student body of less than 400 could produce three Olympians requires unraveling a spiderweb of connections, good fortune and better coaching. All of the girls stop by the school when they’re in town, sometimes to visit the pool, always to visit former teachers and students.
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