Katie Hoff

Baltimore's best swimmers traveled to the Midwest and spurred high hopes for what they might accomplish a year from now in the Far East. Michael Phelps and Katie Hoff were named the top individual performers at the ConocoPhillips USA Swimming Nationals...

How do you motivate an athlete who really doesn't have enough storage space for more medals, and whose swimming resume already requires a library chock-full of three-ring binders? The incentive isn't as hard as you might think. Michael Phelps' coach...

The third day of the ConocoPhillips USA Swimming National Championships was marked by a pair of exciting rivalry races -- one marred by a bad start, and the other capped by an exciting finish. Just a half-hour after his third-place finish in the 400-...

Still a year away from the Summer Olympics, coaches, commentators and swimming enthusiasts are already running out of adjectives to describe what Michael Phelps is capable of in the pool. You have to dig deep to capture his latest feat - nearly breaking...

For a pair of the nation's top swimmers, the chlorine that was in the air in the Indiana University Natatorium proved to be much thicker than any competitive tensions. Michael Phelps, from Rodgers Forge, and Towson's Katie Hoff each raced in an "off"...

In Australia this year at the FINA World Championships, swimmer Michael Phelps proved that, when it comes to his best events, he's racing against only himself and history. When he steps away from his strengths, however, there are still swimmers out there...

MONTREAL - Before every race at the FINA World Championships, held this year at Parc Jean-Drapeau, the competitors are introduced one at a time to the crowded stadium in both French and English. Many of the swimmers choose to smile, and most wave to...

Harford County is known for suburban sprawl, military munitions and hand-carved ducks. Today it will earn the distinction as home to the youngest athlete competing at the Olympic Games. Again. When Bel Air resident Kimmie Meissner takes the ice today...

Cal Ripken Jr.'s election to the Baseball Hall of Fame yesterday punctuated his legacy as one of Baltimore's greatest sports figures. Ripken not only played brilliantly, but he also always seemed to embody the very characteristics Baltimoreans use to...

Maybe all this simply was too much for 19-year-old Katie Hoff, even if she won't admit it. Talk of gold medals and a sack full of medals. Five individual events -- none shorter than 200 meters -- and a relay. Two finals, the 200 freestyle and 200...

MONTREAL - Already having accomplished so much in the sport of swimming, Baltimore's Michael Phelps came into the FINA World Championships eager to test his weaknesses, not his strengths. And so, thumbing his nose at conventional wisdom, he dropped two...

In his first interview since a photo surfaced showing him smoking from a marijuana pipe, Michael Phelps said yesterdaythat the intense public scrutiny has him contemplating whether he will swim in the 2012 Olympics. Phelps, who said that he "clearly made...