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BARCELONA, Spain -- Anita Nall's infectious smile was back.Her voice was vibrant and her eyes sparkled as brightly as the silver medal that had just been placed around her neck."

BARCELONA, Spain -- Anita Nall reappeared at the 1992 Summer Olympics today.The sophomore from Towson Catholic High turned in the second fastest qualifying time in the 100-meter breaststroke heats, finishing in 1:09.32. Elena Roudkovskaia, of the Unified team, had the best time of 1:08.75.The finals were to be held later today.The strong showing by Nall, 16, also qualified her for breaststroke leg of the 4x100 medley relay. The U.S. team will be heavily favored to win that event.Nall was the gold-medal favorite to win the 200-meter breaststroke but ended up winning a bronze medal Monday.

INDIANAPOLIS -- The U.S. Olympic swimming trials were once the threshold of a dream for Anita Nall, who won the women's 100- and 200-meter breaststroke in the 1992 trials and went on to three Olympic medals at age 16. This time, the weeklong Olympic selection meet may be her last stand."

INDIANAPOLIS - Towson's Anita Nall will be a spectator when her American record in the women's 200-meter breaststroke goes down over the next two days. Nall, an Olympic gold medalist in 1992, knew that this year's U.S. trials would be her farewell to competitive swimming. After a labored effort in the 100 breaststroke preliminaries, she decided to withdraw from the 200 breaststroke and begin her retirement two days early. "I don't have much more to put into racing here," Nall said. "My first event was a good indicator that the 200 [breaststroke]

The Baltimore Bombers scored the final five goals Sunday to win their first-ever home game, 12-8 over the Rhode Island Kingfish at Du Burns Arena. With the Bombers trailing 8-7, captain Dan Marohl (St. Mary's, UMBC) started the run by scoring off a feed from former Stevenson men's assistant coach Jordan Kenney with 6:52 left. Devan Spilker put the Bombers in front 48 seconds later with an unassisted tally on a spectacular diving shot across the front of the goal crease. Kenney, a forward, capped the scoring on a pick-and-roll play with former Baltimore Bayhawk Matt Alrich (Calvert Hall)

When seats were assigned in Anita Nall's algebra class at Towson High School, she ended up at the back of the room. It was weeks before the teacher, Rebecca Munn, got to know the brown-haired ninth-grader, "who always had her head down, working."When Nall chose her own seat later in the year, she "picked one right smack in front," recalls Munn. Perhaps that's because math is Nall's favorite subject; perhaps it's because Nall isn't used to being at the back of a group.Be it an algebra class or a swim team.

Anita Nall is only 14, so it's safe to assume that her best swimming is still ahead of her. In that case, American swimming has a bright future, and Marylanders will play a big part in it. On Thursday, Nall, a Towson High School student who swims for the North Baltimore Aquatic Club, set a U.S. record for the 200-meter breast stroke and came within 37/100ths of a second of setting a new world record. Jill Johnson of Lutherville finished third in Nall's event, while Brandy Wood and Amanda White of the North Baltimore Aquatic Club finished 11th and 13th.

YesterdaySwimming: Pablo Morales came out of retirement and won the 100-meter butterfly as the United States collected a pocketful of medals. But Towson's Anita Nall finished a disappointing third in the 200-meter breaststroke and teammate Jill Johnson from Lutherville failed by two-hundredths of a second to make the final in her event.

Anita Nall is probably Baltimore's most famous athlete since Cal Ripken. But when Ripken's performance is sub-par (an event of distressing regularity of late), there is always tomorrow, always next week, next season.No such luxury for Olympic performers. Ms. Nall will have to wait until the 1996 Olympics, when she will be an old lady of 20, to win the gold medal denied her last night in the 200-meter breaststroke. The winner, Kyoko Iwasaki of Japan, turned 14 six days ago, on the same day Ms. Nall turned 16.Ms.

FEDERAL WAY, Wash. -- It took more than two months for Baltimore's Anita Nall to return to swimming. It took a little more than two minutes at the Phillips 66 Spring Nationals for her to discover she's on the way back -- but yesterday Nall got upstaged by a member of her own team.Nall, the 1992 Olympic gold medalist did not compete from December through the end of February while battling mononucleosis. She returned to the water in February and competed for the first time yesterday. She responded with a second-place finish in the 200-meter breaststroke.