By Terin Frodyma on SwimSwam
During the 325th commencement on Monday, 14-time Olympic medalist Katie Ledecky was awarded an honorary degree by Yale University, one of the highest honors the university confers.
Since 1702, the board of trustees at Yale has selected recipients of these honorary degrees. This year’s recipients include Ledecky, Columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah, anesthesiologist Emery Brown, Canadian activist Ingrid Mattson, playwright and professor Lynn Nottage, political scientist Robert Putnam, former Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke, and medical researcher JoAnne Stubbe.
According to a report from Yale, these honorary degrees are awarded to “preeminent individuals in the arts, science, philosophy, athletics, and public service.”
Ledecky and fellow recipients join a long and distinguished list of notable figures to have received an Honorary degree from one of the oldest Universities in the world. That includes the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Hillary Clinton, Willie Mays, Meryl Streep, and Elizabeth Blackburn, among many others.
Ledecky grew up in Bethesda, Maryland, which is about 300 miles southwest of Yale’s campus in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Ledecky is no stranger to high honors, having previously been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2024 (the only swimmer ever to win the award), twice being named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the year (2017 and 2022), on top of a decorated medal haul that includes 14 Olympic medals (Nine gold), 23 long-course world championship titles, and eight NCAA Championship titles with her time at Stanford, where she graduated in 2020 with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and a minor in political science.
She also served as the commencement speaker at her alma mater in 2025, becoming the youngest commencement speaker in the University’s history. Her speech included a recollection of her 800 freestyle race at the 2012 London Olympics, the race that won Ledecky her first career Olympic Gold at the age of 15.
Earlier this month, fellow American Swimming legend and multiple-time Olympic teammate of Ledecky, Michael Phelps, was honored with an honorary doctorate from the University of Michigan.
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