She’s a nine-time Olympic gold medalist, a world-record breaker, a Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee, and now Katie Ledecky will have her own street signs near the Montgomery County, Maryland, school she attended.
Two road signs honoring the Bethesda Native were installed along Cedar Lane near Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, Ledecky’s high school alma mater.
At an unveiling ceremony on Thursday on the school’s soccer field, Ledecky said that when she won her Olympic golds, she thought of where she came from and the people that supported her on her journey — her teachers, her coaches and her community…