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2016 USA Olympic Swim Team Carpool Karaoke

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Katie is named USA Female Athlete of the Olympic Games!

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Katie is named USA Female Athlete of the Olympic Games!

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Michael Phelps was also honored 🏅💪🐐🐐

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WASHINGTON - After a dominant performance in Rio, swimmer Katie Ledecky won Female Athlete of the Olympic Games at an award show featuring Olympians and Paralympians on Wednesday night.

Ledecky wore one of her gold medals on the red carpet at the 2016 Team USA Awards presented by Dow, Best of the Games held at Georgetown's McDonough Arena. In Rio, she won gold in the 200, 400 and 800 freestyle events and the 4x200 freestyle relay. Her silver came as part of the 4x100 free relay. She was the first woman to sweep the 200, 400 and 800 freestyles in 48 years.

In recent weeks, Ledecky moved from her family's home in Bethesda, Md., to Stanford, where she's starting her freshman year. She took three weeks off from training but is now with her Stanford team. "It feels good to be back in the water," Ledecky said.

She's training with her Rio Olympic teammate Simone Manuel, the gold medalist in the women's 100 meters who also won gold on the 4x100 medley relay. Manuel is an all-American and NCAA champion on the Stanford team.

Manuel says she gave some advice to Ledecky about what to expect at Stanford. "But Katie doesn't really need it," Manuel said. "She's definitely prepared. When you go to Stanford, you usually know what you're getting into. I definitely gave her advice on what classes to take and if she ever needs anything, come talk to me. She's doing just fine."
What's next for Katie Ledecky? The toughest event in swimming
Another Olympic swimmer, Michael Phelps, was named Male Athlete of the Olympic Games. Phelps, 31, capped his incredible career with six medals in Rio - five gold and one silver. He brought his career total to a record 28 total medals, including 23 gold.

"It was the cherry on top of the cake that I wanted," Phelps said in Rio. "I couldn't be happier with how things ended."

He repeatedly has said Rio was his last Olympics. These days he's traveling the world with his infant son Boomer and fiancée Nicole Johnson.

He wasn't at the ceremony Wednesday night because he was at the Ryder Cup in Chaska, Minn., where he played in a celebrity match-play tournament at Hazeltine National Golf Club.

Award winners were selected through a combination of fan votes and votes from representatives of national governing bodies and a panel of media members.

Other award winners include:

Brad Snyder, Male Athlete of the Paralympic Games

Tatyana McFadden, Female Athlete of the Paralympic Games

Adam Krikorian, women's water polo, Coach of the Games

North Baltimore Aquatic Club, Building Dreams Award

Jesse Owens Olympic Spirit Award bestowed posthumously to Muhammad Ali

Women's sitting volleyball, Team of the Paralympic Games

Women's gymnastics, Team of the Olympic Games

The awards show will be broadcast on NBC Sports Network on Oct. 4.
PHOTOS: OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC ATHLETES ON THE RED CARPET

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Katie Ledecky wins Female Athlete of the Olympic Games

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After dominating Rio, swimmer Katie Ledecky won Female Athlete of the Olympic Games on Wednesday.

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Baseball champ Bryce Harper wears Katie's swim cap in victory celebration!

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Baseball champ Bryce Harper wears Katie's swim cap in victory celebration!

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When Katie Ledecky threw out the first pitch at a Nationals game last month, Bryce Harper was the one who got to hold all of her medals. The moment was pure gold as Harper dutifully stood next to Ledecky with the medals around his arms.

On Wednesday, in a video shared by Stephen Whyno of the Associated Press, Ledecky said that after Harper held her medals, she sent him a thank you note along with a swim cap. She said that she "told him maybe it could help contain his hair as he was rounding third base."

But Harper didn't wear it on the field. He instead chose to wear the cap to protect his hair from the beer and champagne that was dumped on him when the Nationals clinched the NL East.

Ledecky said she was "very honored" that Harper put her cap to use in the celebration.

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Katie Ledecky explains how Bryce Harper got her swim cap

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Ledecky is honored Harper wore her cap to celebrate.

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Katie Ledecky, Age 9, Asks for Michael Phelps's Autograph

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Katie Ledecky, Age 9, Asks for Michael Phelps's Autograph

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They're both from Maryland!

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Having already won gold in both the 200m and 400m freestyle and silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay in Rio, Katie Ledecky is well on her way to becoming the next Michael Phelps. Her incredibly fast times and strong, loping stroke have become her signature, a style some describe as a masculine. NBC commentator Rowdy Gaines said it best, however, when he snapped that sports analysts, teammates, and fans should stop saying she "swims like a man... She swims like Katie Ledecky, for crying out loud."

Even Phelps is blown away by her strength in the pool. "She knows what she's doing, and it's fun to watch her," he told NBC Sports.

Phelps and Ledecky were on the 2012 London Olympic team together, back when Ledecky won gold in the 800m freestyle and Phelps made history by becoming the most decorated Olympian ever.

Five years before making the 2012 team, Ledecky met Phelps-at an autograph signing in 2006.

Phelps couldn't have known at the time, but he was coming face to face with the 9-year-old who would also go on to become the next "future of USA swimming." That meeting, with one of her self-described "idols," may have even been part of Ledecky's inspiration to pursue a career in competitive swimming and to follow her own Olympic dreams.

And in those 10 years Ledecky has made quite a name for herself.

Last year, at the world championships in Russia, she became the first swimmer ever to sweep the 200m, 400m, 800m and 1500m freestyle in international competition. In her first individual event in Rio, Ledecky set a new Olympic record in a qualifier and then went on to win the event with a world record time-one that was almost five seconds ahead of the silver-medal finisher.

But another photo recently came out of the Ledecky family archives, one that would have allowed her to have an equally cute #TBT shot had she excelled in another sport: basketball.

In 1999, Ledecky met another famous Olympian, Michael Jordan, at a Washington Wizards game.

Her uncle, a stakeholder in both the Wizards and Washington Capitals, brought his then-2-year-old niece to meet the two-time Olympic gold medalist (Jordan won gold in the 1984 Los Angeles and 1992 Barcelona Games).

While the meeting likely didn't have the same inspirational effect on Ledecky as meeting Phelps, it just goes to show that the Washington, D.C. native has been rubbing elbows with world-class talent for nearly two decades.

She was even featured on the Today show at 16 months old!

All right, she wasn't featured on the Today show, but her brief cameo can now been seen as some very intense foreshadowing for Olympic greatness.

Watch Ledecky take on the competition again in the women's 800m freestyle, Thursday, Aug. 11 at 12:26 p.m. ET.
How to Live Stream 2016 Rio Olympics Swimming:
NBCUniversal's networks and digital platforms will be showing nearly 7,000 hours of programing over 19 days during the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics. NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app will also live stream coverage of the Games for pay TV subscribers via TV Everywhere. You can download the NBC Sports app to your Android TV, Apple TV, Xbox, or Roku-or use the iOS, Android, or Windows Phone apps.

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The Day Michael Phelps Saw Swimming's Future: 9-Year-Old Katie Ledecky

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Having already won gold in both the 200m and 400m freestyle and silver in the 4x100m freestyle relay in Rio, Katie Ledecky is well on her way to becoming the next Michael Phelps . Her incredibly fast times and strong, loping stroke have become her signature, a style some describe as a masculine.

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