when russian figure skater natalia moves to the united states to attend the university of connecticut, she expects to focus on perfecting her craft and navigating life in a new country. what she doesn't expect is to get tangled up with uconn's most infamous basketball duo-nika mühl and paige bueckers.

Maddy and Nika don't have the best record...but oh do things get interesting

CONTINUATION: REWRITING When Julie Romano, one of UConns best players, suffers a career-threatening injury just at the start of the season, her world crumbles. The future once bright with promise was now hanging on by a piece of thread. Julie slowly finds herself spiraling, turning to not so healthy things to numb the loss of basically her whole life. As Julie withdraws, isolating herself from friends and family, her path unexpectedly collides with Nika's, her long-time rival on and off the court. Circumstances force the two athletes to share an apartment- a living arrangement neither of them wants. But as they reluctantly navigate this new reality, the tension between them begins to shift. Can two enemies find common ground when everything else has fallen apart? And when the walls come down, will they see each other-and themselves-in a new light? #3 in #slam: 3/5/24 Started: 2/05/24

For Nika, it's always been Basketball first, everything and everyone else second. It has to be. It's her rule. But rules are made to be broken. G!P

In which they can't leave each other alone... Nika Mühl x fem!OC imgonnagetyouback by taylor swift

Maddison Silverston and Paige Bueckers never got along, Paige and Maddy always fought to be the number one of the country, that rivalry leed then to be enemies. Less they know that they will became someting more than rivals.

Paige Bueckers x fem reader Y/n Auriemma is the daughter of UCONN's Women's basketball coach. Unlike her father, she doesn't know the first thing about basketball. She simply never cared for the sport, until she discovered her dad's star player, Paige Bueckers. Y/n eventually decides admiring Paige from a far isn't enough anymore, so she starts interning with the teams personal physical therapists who Paige sees often. But even if Paige notices Y/n, the two of them together is a bad idea. Y/n is the coach's daughter after all. Disclaimer: Geno is depicted as the antagonist of this story. He's probably a really nice guy in real life lol.

"IT WAS A BAD IDEA, TO THINK I COULD STOP, WAS SUCH A BAD IDEA I CANT GET ENOUGH!" Chloe is a junior at the university of Connecticut. Where she finds herself accepting an internship as the media assistant for the women's basketball team. When her path unexpectedly crosses with star player #5 Paige Bueckers. There relationship unfolds to be surprising yet controversial match.

"Alexa, play Casual by Chappell Roan." From playing each other in college to being teammates on the same WNBA team Nika's always held a grudge against Sydney after she became overly popular around the United States and with popularity came entitlement and Sydney was full of that. On the other hand Sydney hated how Nika was after some choice words were said in the NCAA tournament between the two. Something along the lines of Nika telling Sydney to be less cocky and fix herself almost resulting into a fight between the two. But what happens when Nika finds out the real reason Sydney was like this and finds her way through Sydney's tough outside personality and finally sees the real Sydney. Will she fall in love? Read to find out.

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