Katie Ledecky Will Swim At the 2025 Katie Ledecky Invitational Next Week

Katie Ledecky

Global swimming superstar Katie Ledecky isn’t racing at this week’s U.S. Open, but that doesn’t mean that she won’t be racing this December.

Instead, Ledecky will travel back to her home state of Maryland to race at her home club’s annual December invite, which this year has renamed in her honor.

Ledecky will race at the former NCAP Invite (also previously the Tom Dolan Invitational), which is now called the Katie Ledecky Invitational. She will attend the meet to sign autographs on Saturday and on Sunday will race in the 1650 yard free.

NCAP was Ledecky’s childhood club, and she raced at this meet at least three other times before leaving for college: 2011, 2014, and 2015.

The meet is often used as an alternative winter championship by large teams from the Northeast not travelling to the Winter Junior Championships meet, with clubs like the Long Island Aquatic Club, Badger Swim Club (NY), Wilmington Aquatic Club, Asphalt Green, Ridgefield Aquatic Club, Suburban Seahawks Swim Club, and Machine Aquatics sending large contingents to compete.

Ledecky, 28, has affirmed her intention to race on home soil at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games, where the 800 free, her signature event, is the last individual final of the swimming portion on the final day of the Olympics – a potential zenith to crown the career of one of the greatest athletes in history.

She is the four-time defending Olympic Champion in that event, among 9 career gold and 14 career total medals at the Olympic Games.

She is the current World Record holder in the 800 and 1500 freestyles in long course and the 1500 in short course.

In the 1650 yard free, an event that she has only raced twice since finishing her NCAA career in 2018, no other swimmer has been within 22 seconds of her best time.