How many times have you witnessed something so unbelievable that you know for certain that it will never happen again? Well, on Dec. 14, I was fortunate to experience the fastest mile ever swam by a woman in history.
Every year, the Nation’s Capital Swim Club (NCAP) hosts the Nation’s Capital Invite, which is a championship swim meet that club teams up and down the East Coast travel to compete in. The meet takes place at the University of Maryland’s Eppley Center and is notorious for incredibly fast swims and immense time drops. This was my third year competing in the meet.
In September of 2025, about three months before the first day of the Nation’s Capital Invite, news broke one day at practice that our annual championship meet would have a new name: the Katie Ledecky Invite. Ledecky is NCAP’s most famous alum and is widely regarded as one of the best female Olympians of all time…