One of the best up-and-coming swimmers in the country earned her first Olympic medal on Thursday night.
Alex Shackell, a 17-year-old incoming senior at Carmel High School (Ind.), was part of the United States’ silver-winning 4×200 swim team with Katie Ledecky. Shackell swam in the preliminaries but not the championship round, in which the U.S. finished in 7:40.86.
