2025 Pro Swim Series – Fort Lauderdale
- Wednesday, April 30 – Saturday, May 3, 2025
- Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- Fort Lauderdale Aquatic Center
- LCM (50 meters)
- Meet Central
- Psych Sheets
- Live Results
- Live Recaps
- Prelims: Day 2 | Day 3
- Finals: Day 1 (Timed Finals) | Day 2 | Day 3
Katie Ledecky is having one of the best meets of her career in Fort Lauderdale, having swum a 15:24 in the 1500 free and 3:56.8 in the 400 free, both the 2nd-best swims of her life in the respective events. When reflecting on her weekend, Ledecky seemed thrilled, noting that if the summer ended this week, she’d be happy with her season.
The 14x Olympic medalist has been swimming (and winning) on the international stage since the age of 15 in 2012. 13 years into an illustrious international career, most athletes would feel lucky just to be relevant, let alone approach best times. But Katie Ledecky is still looking to reach another level in training and racing, chasing daily improvement in hopes of reaching heights never seen by herself, or any other woman, in history.
The GOAT. That is all.
Just a thought experiment: if she goes to worlds, and swims (relatively) slow there, would she be happy with her season?
Of course, I hope she crushes it!
It would be Year 14 (if 2012 is the first)
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GREAT
one thing that stands out to me is the humility – Katie Ledecky makes it clear that not even she is immune to her own expectations and pressures – and swims best when she feels like they’re all of the table.
Think how amazing the world would be if everyone shared her attitude.