FACTOIDS
Full Name: Katie Hoff
Nickname: Katie
Birthday: June 3, 1989
Height: 5’8”
Hometown: Stanford, California
Sports: Swimming
PROFILE
Hoff becomes one of a number of Olympians from her club team, the North Baltimore Aquatic Club. The team's pool is decorated with posters of past Olympic team members including Michael Phelps, Beth Botsford and Anita Nall. Like Hoff, they were all 15 or younger when they made the team. Hoff's family moved to Abingdon from Williamsburg, Va. last summer largely so she could swim for NBAC.
* Won 2005 World Championship Trials 400m IM, 200m IM (American and U.S. Open record), 200m free
* At the Santa Clara 37th Annual International meet in May, 14-year-old Hoff broke Olympic legend Summer Sanders's 400 I.M. meet record from 1992
* At age 15, Hoff was the youngest member of the 2004 Olympic Team
* Set the 200 I.M. national age group record for 13-14 girls twice this year
* Her mother was a standout basketball player at Stanford University
* Grew up not only swimming but doing ballet, gymnastics and other sports
