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About the Sacred Heart athletes and staff at the Tokyo Olympics

July 21, 2021

Katie Ledecky

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, ‘15

This will be Ledecky’s third Olympics. She has won five Olympic gold medals (5 golds and 1 silver) and 15 world championship gold medals, the most in history for a female swimmer. She is the world record in the women's 400-, 800-, and 1500-meter freestyle. Ledecky will be swimming in five events in Tokyo:  200-, 400-, 800-, 1,500-meter and the 4x200m relay.

Photo Credit: Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

Phoebe Bacon

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart, ‘20

Bacon will be swimming the 200-meter backstroke in Tokyo. Bacon was Ledecky’s “little buddy” at Little Flower School in Bethesda, Maryland, when Bacon was a pre-K student and Ledecky was a fourth-grader. They both attended Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda. Bacon is a three-time gold medalist at the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Championships. This will be her first Olympics.

Photo Credit: Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

Abby Dahlkemper

Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton, ‘11

Dahlkemper, a defender for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, helped her college alma mater UCLA win its first-ever NCAA Championship in 2013, and joined the USWNT roster in 2015. Dahlkemper was named National Women’s Soccer League’s (NWSL) 2017 Defender of the Year. She joined Tierna Davidson, a fellow graduate from Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton in Atherton, California, on the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup winning team, where she was one of only two players to start every tournament match for the United States.

Photo Credit: Brad Smith/ISI Photo

Tierna Davidson

Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton, ‘16

Davidson, also a defender for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team, led her college alma mater Stanford University to the 2017 NCAA Championship, earned 32 appearances with the USWNT, and was the youngest player on the champion USA team at the 2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup in France. 

Photo Credit: Brad Smith/ISI Photo

Gaby López

Colegio Sagrado Corazón México, '12

López will represent México and compete in golf. López attended the University of Arkansas, where she won three collegiate golf events and was individual runner-up at the 2015 NCAA Division I Championship. She turned professional in 2015, and earned her her LPGA membership for the 2016 season. This will be her second Olympics.

Mayte Martínez

Colegio Sagrado Corazón México, '08

Mayte Martínez works as the nutritionist for the Mexican national football team.

 

Nicola Johnson

Former educator, Stuartholme School

Nicola is the first Australian female water polo referee at an Olympic Games.

Anabelle Smith

Sacré Cœur, '10

Smith will compete in diving in her third Olympics representing Australia. Smith won bronze medal in the 2016 Rio Olympics in the 3m synchronized springboard event. Notably, she's made 3 appearances in the Commonwealth Games, Diving World Cup and Diving World Championships, earning multiple bronze medals. In 2019, she was second overall in the Diving World Series and was named Diving Victoria's Athlete of the Year. This year she will compete in the 3m springboard event.

Paige Greco

Sacré Cœur, '15

This will be Greco's first Paralympics on the Australian para-cycling team. She will compete in both track and road cycling events. An accomplished athlete, Greco set three world records at the 2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships. She holds three world championship gold medals in track para-cycling, two national gold medals in track para-cycling, and two national gold medals in road para-cycling.

Dylan Martin

Coach, Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart

Martin is a defender on the Australian men's field hockey team, the Kookaburras. He is also the coach of the ladies field hockey team at Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart located in Rose Bay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He's played midfielder for New South Wales (NSW) Pride team. He helped the NSW Under 21s team win gold at the 2019 Australian Championships and was one of the top goal scorers at the tournament. This is Martin's first Olympics.

Photo Credit: Kincoppal-Rose Bay School of the Sacred Heart

Amos Bartelsmeyer

Villa Duchesne and Oak Hill School

This will be Bartelsmeyer's first Olympics. Born in Germany, he grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Oak Hill School in elementary school. He attended Georgetown University, where in his final year he qualified for the NCAA Championship and placed ninth in the 1500m finals. After college he competed in the European Indoor Championships and the World Outdoor Championships and won the German national 1500m title in 2019. He will represent Germany in the men's 1500m track event. 

Carla Scicluna

Sacred Heart College - Malta, '19

Carla Scicluna is a sprinter from and representing Malta. In 2020 she  won gold medals in the 100m and 4x100m relay at the Malta national championships. She was a 200m semi-finalist at the European Youth Olympic Festival in 2017 and, more recently, in 2021 she placed fourth in the 200m at the Championships of the Small States of Europe.

Scicluna competed in the women's 100m event.

 

Nora Seif Azmy

Collège du Sacré-Cœur - Le Caire, '18

Nora Seif Azmy will compete in team artistic swimming, representing Egypt.

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