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If you are a parent and are blessed to have a daughter born, and you want her to become a superstar athlete, I have a solid suggestion: Name her Katie or Kate or Kaylee or Caitlin or some other name that starts with a K sound such as Kayla or Katherine.
I say this not just randomly and as a cheat stunt to grab your attention. There is empirical data and historical precedent buttressing my airtight theory. Check this out.
Katie Ledecky. Do I really need to elaborate? Didn’t think so.
Kate Douglass won the 200-meter breaststroke Gold Medal at the Olympics and afterward smiled broadly because she’s Miss America. I told you before the Olympics began she would become Miss America and it’s now crystallizing.
Then there’s Kaylee McKeown, the Australian swimmer who won Gold in the 100-meter backstroke.
Think this is some flimsy modern-day coincidence? Then how would that explain Katie Hoff being a star U.S. Olympic swimmer from yesteryear? It wouldn’t, so the trend is real, and admit to yourself right now you didn’t think I knew who Katie Hoff is.
What’s truly konclusive about this K-sounding trend doesn’t apply only to swimming. I know some of you haven’t heard of Caitlin Clark, which is honestly amazing, but Caitlin is the most popular basketball player in the world right now, man or woman. And she has a good friend from her college team who is also now famous named Kate Martin.
I could keep going but you might feel like I was piling on and why would I want to do that to my friends?
The point is straightforward and punchy. Great female athletes right now, and in the past, and a variety of sports, have the names Katie or Caitlin or Katie or some other name that has a kinship K clang sound.
OK, so what’s my real point? Glad you asked.
You can expect soon after this article goes viral, for the next several years thousands more parents – not just in the United States but in Australia for sure and many other countries — will bestow upon their daughters these names and many of them will end up becoming spectacular athletes including swimmers.
When this happens, you’ll look back and say to yourself: “That guy Hartley, he really knew his swimming. We should have been calling him Mr. America all along.”
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