Swimteam Stories

Pete's story begins with him as a quiet, unassuming boy, entering the hallowed halls of his new senior high school with a mix of trepidation and careful curiosity. His wire-rimmed prescription frames, later so iconic, were already firmly settled, casting his brown eyes in a reflective clarity as he absorbed his surroundings. Dressed in the school's formal, dark wool dress uniform-the standard academic shell-he appeared to be just another unindexed file within the system, a freshman component waiting to be registered. On his first morning interval, amidst the chaotic geometric matrix of hundreds of students navigating the corridors, Pete's focus was already split. His long, thin fingers were meticulously guiding a mechanical drafting compass across a clean parchment sheet, capturing the load-bearing parameters of the complex's gothic architecture. Even as he sat beneath the cold, clinical glare of the campus halogens, his quiet, calculating soul was cataloging the physical environment with the same structured logic that would later define his survival. The presence of the varsity line, the corrupt real estate grants, and the water's ancient curse were still invisible variables to him, but the core script of his analytical nature was already fully operational. He was a perfect component, primed to observe and neutralize any impending diagnostic anomalies that city hall might execute.

On their first day of school, best friends and competitive swimmers Mable and Conner must adapt to the newest addition to their swim team, a runaway, who is from a very wet, very different world.

An enemies to lovers college sports romance. Josie Lucason knows how to survive underwater. As a scholarship swimmer at Ironridge University, she's spent years pushing through pain, pressure, and the expectations of everyone watching from the deck. But when her perfect relationship with golden-boy swimmer Lachlan shatters in front of the entire team, Josie becomes the kind of mess people whisper about. Crew Parker knows how to win a fight. A tattooed, hot-headed wrestling captain with one last shot at becoming an All-American, Crew has no time for distractions, especially not from a swimmer. The rivalry between their teams is already ugly enough, and Josie Lucason has always been everything he thinks he should hate: polished, untouchable, and completely off-limits. But after one reckless punch, one public fallout, and one moment neither of them can stop replaying, Josie and Crew find themselves pulled into each other's orbit. She doesn't need saving. He doesn't know how to let go. And neither of them is prepared for what happens when hate starts feel a lot like want. Pin Me Down, Pull Me Under is a new adult college sports romance featuring swim team drama, wrestling room tension, enemies-to-lovers heat, emotional damage, found-family friendships, and two athletes learning that sometimes the hardest thing to fight is the person who sees right through you.

The water made her. The water never let her go. Brooke Kowalczyk has three things on her mind: her best friends, her relay team, and the IHSA Girls State Championship at FMC Natatorium. November 15-16, 2024. Two days that will define her senior year. She doesn't know they're also the last normal days of her life. Six months later, a virus called TSJ reaches the United States from Europe. It spreads through bites and blood. It turns the dead into something fast, aggressive, and hungrier than anything Brooke has ever faced. The military calls it an outbreak. The internet calls it the zombie apocalypse. Brooke calls it the end of everything she knew. But she's a swimmer. She knows how to hold her breath when the world tries to drown her. She knows how to keep moving when every muscle screams to stop. She knows that the water doesn't care about fear - it only cares about the weight you bring into it. From the suburbs of Hinsdale to the flooded ruins of Chicago to the frozen shores of Lake Superior, Brooke must navigate a slow-burn collapse that doesn't happen in a single explosion - it happens in phone calls that drop and never reconnect, in neighbors who disappear in white vans, in the silence when the power goes out for good. She'll lose things she never thought she could lose. She'll discover strengths she never knew she had. And through it all, the water will hold her. Or it will pull her under. The only question is: how much weight can she carry?

They trained for speed. Now they race for their lives. Elyssa Kuo lives for the water. CIF championships, early morning practices, and the Calamaga relay are her world. Then a rage virus turns the infected into sprinters. The only safe place? Water. Now Elyssa and her swim team must use their lungs, their lane lines, and their bonds to survive a collapsing California. Fast zombies. Flooded aqueducts. A supercarrier on the horizon. They can't swim. You can.

When summers romance enters falls cruel stance. Keisha-Rae Simone is the girl who sticks to herself. She likes to lay low, avoiding the crazy life that plays around her. Every summer she goes down to the cottage to get away from the madness. No raging teens. No fighting parents. No internet. Just nature, and herself. Or so she thought. Kahlil Hayes Casper High's golden boy gets a taste of reality after making a huge mistake. He gets dumped at the cottage for the summer. He struggles to remotely take care of himself so he finds himself turning to the girl across the lake. Falling for each other this summer was the easy part. But now summer is over and senior year begins... we all know how the seasons go. They say senior year is always memorable. They also say everything dies in fall.

Jules leblanc is an Olympic swimmer hopeful. But out of nowhere she suffers an accident that changes her dreams drastically. Which leaves her really scared to even stay in the water for a long period of time. Around 5 minutes to be exact. But her dad has other plans, then to actually continue to take a break away from swimming. He signed/forced her to become a coach for the male swim team in Australia. - Will she ever get back into the water? - Will she face her fears? - Will she let a team of boys bring her down? There will be some rivalries. As Jules is blaming Sophia for taking her Goggles at the last swim comp she competed in. What will happen in "swim to the gold"?

Two swimmers. Two states. One destination. November 2025. Emily touches the wall at State. 2nd place. Her dad cries in the stands. She doesn't know that's the last normal moment she'll ever have. March 2026. Tanisha stands on the podium. Silver medal. She texts her dad "Love you." She doesn't know the world is already changing. June 2026. The infected run. They don't walk. They don't moan. They sprint. Twelve seconds after a bite, you're not human anymore. New York falls. Los Angeles falls. Philadelphia falls. Chicago builds walls. Pittsburgh fortifies. Denver becomes the new capital. And deep in the Black Hills, a bunker waits. Emily runs north with her little brother and her swim team. Tanisha runs west with her cousin and her best friend. They never meet. But they're both heading to the same dark hills. No romance. No heroes. Just swimmers. They hold their breath. They calculate their odds. They survive.

They both go to a collage party their Senor year and get way to drunk. They run into each other and start dancing together. What happens when the go up into the spare bedroom that night? Three years later , Annabeth is 24 with a two year old son, living in the busy city of New York. Percy is 24, a swimming champion and living with his younger sister while their mom and step dad are in San Francisco. What Annabeth doesn't know is that the new people who moved in next door are Percy and his sister. What Percy doesn't know is the blonde next door people tell him rumors about is the girl he has liked since high school. What will happen when they meet again after 3 years in the hallway. Will Percy ever remember what they did that one collage night, or will Annabeth have to be pained with the truth she knows? What will happen to their lives? Will they connect for better or worse?

Harvey "JC" Jeffries-Coleman has only ever known swimming. It's her first memory, and her only one true love, until one day that's taken away from her. She is fresh out of college, and hired by Harvard University to coach their swimmers to the national collegiate competition. Thomas Buchannon is a hot shot athlete who has always been good at everything, but swimming especially. He's in his senior year of college at Harvard and it's his last chance to make a big impression and break records in the swimming community before he has to takeover his father's business

For New Albany High School swimmer Caroline Evans, the 2019-2020 school year was supposed to be about championships, college plans, and making memories with her closest friends, Jillian Barnes and the rest of their tight-knit team. From the electric buzz of Halloween and the pressure of winter formals to the triumphant peak of the OHSAA State Swimming & Diving Championships, Caroline's world is one of chlorine-scented hair, whispered secrets in the hallways, and the simple, loud chaos of ordinary life. But as the school year winds down and summer stretches out before her, the news grows strange. A meteor shower. An attack. Creatures that hunt by sound. The "loudest city in the world" goes silent in an instant. As the Evans family watches the unthinkable unfold on their screens, the invasion creeps closer to their quiet, affluent suburb. Caroline must transition from chasing state titles to a much more terrifying race: navigating her family's survival through the first horrifying hours of the Death Angels' arrival, holding onto the quiet echoes of the life she left behind.

two enemies secretly in love separated by one lane line

Cole Dawson is your typical high school athlete trying to traverse school, spend time with his girlfriend, and his not so typical family. When his parents surprise him with life altering news his world is turned upside down and he finds himself in a strange but miraculous world. Soon this magical kingdom's safety is threatened and Cole himself is thrown into fulfilling the prophecy that could save or ruin the kingdom indefinitely. Inspired by "Alice in Wonderland" this coming of age tale follows a young man trying to make sense of his crumbling security and stumbles into a world who's vitality hinges upon what decision he makes next. In the face of adversity he has to discover what it truly means to be a hero and a man facing hardships no 17 year old should. Will Cole ever make it home? What does the future hold for Nymera? Stay tuned in and find out!

Music conservatory romance :) From lovers to enemies to enemies w/benefits to lovers again. Archer plays cello, Lily plays viola. My first publish btw!

A Jayden Croes fanfiction.

This story is about the drama of a friend group, torn about by teenage angst. Will they be able to come together again while they are still young?

Before the tripods, Jaime Irvine was just trying to drop a second off her 200 IM. She woke at 5:00 AM. She ate pancakes her mother made. She sat next to Lauren Aguilar in the cafeteria and complained about taper madness. She tied her hair only for races and wore her glasses everywhere else. She had a state championship. A swim banquet where she held Lauren's hand under the table. Three arcade outings that felt like forever. One night between prelims and finals where she sang karaoke and almost felt invincible. That was 2025. Summer 2026: The aliens don't care about her personal best. Three legs. Heat rays. Red weed in the Mississippi. Jaime and Lauren have one advantage: Jaime knows how to hold her breath. The Last Flip Turn is not a hero story. It is a survivor story. It follows two teenage girls through the ordinary wreckage of junior year and into an extraordinary nightmare. There are no generals, no speeches, no last-minute rescue. Only a swimmer, her best friend, and the slow, terrible realization that the only thing keeping them alive is everything they already learned in the pool. Breathe. Flip. Push off. Repeat. Inspired by War of the Worlds (2005).

The story starts with a 16 year old gay boy from Halifax, Canada; who finally saved enough money to go in a foreign exchange program to England. This is a big change in his life and he ends up falling in love with a boy from the school he go's too. READ THE STORY TO CONTINUE...

When the new girl in school shows up Makoto finds himself recognizing her and soon realizes she's an old childhood friend. While helping her get used to the school and finding her friends he finds himself starting to develop feelings. The question is does she feel the same?

Finn Dor-Selle isn't your average teenager. Sure, there's the raging hormones, but then there's the predator mode during which he loses control and becomes a killer, fueled by blood-lust that leaves him with no recollection of anything he's done. Conflicted and confused, he needs to choose between fighting his nature or embracing it. Rivian Whitlock is a foster kid. His life has been difficult and unpredictable, and he's never truly felt safe. Having the rug ripped from underneath him whenever he least expects it, he's become wary and suspicious, no longer wanting to rely on people. The last thing he expected was to trust someone who occasionally morphs into a deadly predator.