Swimteam Stories

Before the silence, there was the water. For Kathy Hansen, the roar of the pool was the sound of victory-state championships, college dreams, and a future full of noise. But on June 18, 2020, the world went quiet. Now, separated from her fire chief father and hunted by creatures that track every heartbeat, a seventeen-year-old swimmer must lead her sister and their surviving friends on a desperate journey across a dead America. Their only hope? The one place the monsters cannot follow. The water.

For Ashley Davis, a seventeen-year-old swimmer and All-State hopeful from Roanoke, Virginia, June 2020 was supposed to be about summer break and college recruiting. But when the sky falls silent and blind, hyper-sonic predators descend on Earth, Ashley's world is reduced to a single rule: Don't make a sound. Separated from her family during a trip to Seattle, Ashley must use her swimmer's discipline-her lung capacity, her control, her ability to move in absolute silence-to navigate the first days of the invasion. From the burning streets of the West Coast to the abandoned Blue Ridge Mountains, she fights to reunite with her firefighter father and survive in a world where one whisper means death. Inspired by the canon of A Quiet Place, this is a story of family, grief, and the terrifying power of silence.

Three best friends. Seventy miles of silence. One chance to survive. Suncoast High swim captains Sienna, Sylvia, and Gabrielle have spent years moving as one in the water. When blind predators that hunt by sound descend on Miami, that bond becomes their only weapon. Their journey home up the Florida coast will test everything they know about trust, sacrifice, and the loudest thing of all: hope.

Danica Green has one rule for her final season with the Surrey Sharks: no distractions. Especially not Lycus Anderson, the golden-boy co-captain whose betrayal two years ago shattered their friendship. Her teammate, Iris "Flower" Wang is trying to savor every last moment with her best friend, Fraser. But after a hug that crosses an unspoken line, Iris uncovers her freshman-year journal and a truth she's been running from: she's always been in love with him. Now, with graduation looming, staying quiet feels like its own kind of lie. For Danica and Iris, the hardest race won't be in the pool; it's the one against time to mend a broken friendship and confess a hidden love, or watch as their chances disappear into the deep end.

~cover not mine~ Issac Mills just moved into Lakewood to join their elite swim team, no other plans whatsoever. When Ezra Moore comes into his life things become a bit more- well let's just say complicated. Can the boy next door help him come out of his shell or will it be the other way around? Read to find out!

Park Jisoo is everything a university could want in an athlete-Olympic-bound swimmer, straight-A student, golden boy with a smile made for sponsorship deals. He's built his life on discipline, silence, and never slipping beneath the surface. Liang "Zen" Zhen doesn't smile for cameras. A nationally ranked MMA fighter with a reputation for violence and a past he doesn't explain, Zen is the athlete parents warn their sons about. He doesn't care about public image. He cares about winning. When a careless comment from Jisoo about combat sports goes viral, it sparks a rivalry neither of them asked for. Forced into shared media appearances and a semester-long sports psychology project, the swimmer and the fighter find themselves circling each other-sharp words, sharper tension. Jisoo thinks Zen is reckless. Zen thinks Jisoo is fake. They're both wrong. Because beneath the bruises and perfect times, beneath the expectations and family pressure, they recognize something in each other no one else sees: obsession. Fear. Hunger. Zen falls first. Jisoo falls harder. But in a world where reputations are currency and masculinity is measured in silence, loving each other might cost them everything. And neither of them knows if they're brave enough to choose

Have you ever had to watch your guy best friend the guy you not so secretly love, fall in love, 11 times over? But it's fine cause you're popular and pretty and eventually he'll fall right into your arms. Right? But with the arrival of a 12th girl, 16 year old Aspen Reynolds is thrust into uncertainty about where she stands. If this mystery girl is his true match, where does that leave her? It's either she gets over or under Jake Whelton. No more waiting, but who in the world would even consider helping this mean girl reform? Caught up in a world of contract girlfriends, love triangles, and seething jealousy, Welcome to my not so love situation.

Sam believed her life couldn't get better than it already was. She had amazing family and friends, worked at the local cafe in her small town and was always in the water. Being the best never mattered to her, it was being her best. She worked hard for her grades and was constantly beating records on her school swim team. Her life was chaotic but the only thing she didn't have to be good at was surfing. It was her escape. Ollie was known as one of Richmond Highs bad boys. Mostly known as the 'approachable one'. He always swooned teachers with his million dollar smile, and knew all of his classmates since they all started together in preschool. But all milo wanted was to graduate and escape the small town he only knew as home. But he still had three years left. for now, the only escape he had was music.

For Amber Tran, a star swimmer at Lubbock High, the loudest sounds were the roar of the crowd, the splash of the pool, and the laughter of her friends. Her world was a vibrant tapestry of school, sports, and the fierce loyalty of her team. Everything shattered in the summer of 2020. Now, lethal creatures that hunt by sound stalk the Earth. The slightest noise means death. Haunted by the memories of her friends lost on the first day, Amber must use a swimmer's discipline-controlled breathing, silent movement-to survive. Her only hope is to cross a silent, monstrous America and reach the last evacuation point. Her destination is a place where sound still lives: Australia. An island the monsters cannot touch. To get there, she must master a world of silence, or be consumed by it. The story shifts between different swimmers how they survive the Invasion.

Jamie Lam has spent her life as a high school swimmer through a stretch of winter defined by early alarms, damp towels, crowded pool decks, and the slow countdown to the state championships. Her days unfold in familiar places-kitchen tables at dawn, carpools, locker rooms buzzing with half-serious jokes, and long meets where time stretches between races. Swimming shapes everything: friendships built in shared exhaustion, teammates who qualify and teammates who don't, and the unspoken tension of knowing not everyone will keep moving forward together. Away from the pool, life continues quietly. Family routines repeat. School fades in and out of focus. Plans for the future begin to surface in small, unexpected moments. As the lanes narrow and the stakes rise, Jaime starts to understand that growing up doesn't arrive all at once-it happens in pauses, in waiting, in what's left unsaid after the race is over. This is not a story about winning or losing. It's about what happens between-between heats, between friends, between who you are now and who you're becoming.

My life was measured in milliseconds and the silent focus behind my goggles. I'm Sam, a swimmer from Scottsdale, and I thought my biggest problem was beating my personal best. I was wrong. Now, on a trip to Italy with my best friends, the world has ended. Creatures that hunt by sound have invaded. One scream, one dropped phone, one careless step and you're dead. We're stranded thousands of miles from home. Our only hope is to reach the coast, to an island they can't touch. Because they have one weakness: They can't swim. And I've spent my whole life training for the water. In a world gone terrifyingly silent, my greatest skill might be the only thing that can keep us alive.

A Jayden Croes fanfiction.

welcome to my ted talk :D

Almost is never enough. Would this 'almost' lead them to a happily ever after or would lead them to an almost-love story?

Drarry Swim au oneshot don't read if you don't understand swimming because there's a lot of language you may not understand. There is talk of self harm and attempts so don't read if that triggers you.

This is the typical High School story about three best friends. When one of them, Ellie goes to a dance camp and becomes friends with Kayla and when Rhyme becomes friends with TK, the drama starts. Will their friendship hold for much longer? Rhyme and her friends have always danced together. But this year there's a new girl in town and only three spots on the team. - Brat Channel ~~~~~~~~ This is the written version of Chicken Girls by Brat. You can get the videos on youtube on the Brat channel. The storyline, characters, and everything that makes this book is possible all thanks to Brat. Without them, you wouldn't be reading this. Enjoy!

If you are a swimmer or are looking to laugh, read this book! :D

In the summer of 2020, the world changes in silence. Emma Ding, a seventeen-year-old competitive swimmer at Olympus High School in Holladay, Utah, navigates the ordinary turbulence of teenage life: school, friendships, competitions, and family celebrations. Alongside her close-knit swim team, they balance study sessions, practices, parties, and state championships, their bonds strengthened by years in and out of the pool. But everything shifts when the Death Angels arrive. A mysterious, silent, and merciless threat descends upon Madrid, Spain, where Emma and her team are traveling for their school summer camp in June 2020. The rules of survival are absolute: sound draws death. In a world turned upside down, Emma must rely on instinct, courage, and her friends' strengths to navigate a shattered city and reach the safety of Mallorca, a distant sanctuary untouched by the invaders.

(Swim team, enemies to lovers) One day George moved from the UK to Florida because he had to move schools because family business expect little did, he know he would make an enemy. Dream end up meeting George at the school at first absolutely hating his guts but slowly he started realizing he started to develop... feelings for George?