Swimteam Stories

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. The world falls. New communities and networks are established. And deep in the Black Hills, a sanctuary awaits. Emily runs north with her little brother and her swim team. Tanisha runs west with her cousin and her best friend. They encounter survivors along the way who become their allies. 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 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.

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).

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.

Willow, a senior and track captain, falls for her best friends twin. She writes poems for him, but never gives them. They start to fake date and realize the feelings they have for each other. (Friends to lovers) (Fake dating) (Best friends Brother)

Meet Naya: popular nice girl, and the captain of the swim team. And then there's Cole: cocky, but considerate womanizer. The two have never gotten along, fighting over their best friend. But when they start fake dating to make their significant others jealous, punches are thrown, people start to show their true colors, and Naya and Cole start to wonder if their whole relationship is really fake.

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 friends on a desperate journey across a dead America. Their only hope? The one place the monsters cannot follow. The water.

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?

Hey, mydudes! C'mon in and embrace the unstableness.. well, really this is just gonna be the place where I post random things. Maybe some artwork or my sad excuse of a love life, tags, rants, or maybe just some weird thoughts that pop into my head (lemme tell ya that part gets a little dangerous, especially when it involves math). well, uh.. anyways, good luck keeping your sanity!

"I think you should go." "Can't handle the truth princess?" "No, I can't handle your lies." "The clock doesn't lie darlin, you've said it yourself." Camila, Captain of the girls team works her butt off to achieve her dreams in swimming. Luke, captain of the boys team works just as hard. With his season not yet started, he is the team manager for the girls team. Leaving Camila in misery all season long. The two despise each other, in and out of the pool. So much so nothing can bring them together, not even swimming.... Or so they thought. Swearing is in the book, I'm a bad writer so read at your own risk lol Best ratings: #1 in swimming #1 in swimteam #1 in pool #1 in Lifegaurd #1 in pool #1 in swim #1 in swimmer #1 in competition

It's about a guy I met..

Vedaant Madhavan had a dream of attaining excellence in the field of swimming he wanted to win a Gold Medal in Olympics for which he is never tired to practice for Ishita who is just 2 years younger than him was a really healthy girl who wanted to reduce weight and achieve her dreams

Kaylee Walker is what most people would call nerd or geek in high school, forced to go to parties with her brother and his friends. she has particuar eyes on her brothers best friend Easton Collins. he is what she dreams of but there is one reason that they cnt be togter even if he liked her back. Her brother protects hermlike she is goin to die in the next few seconds.

Avery hill the swim team captain as had a crush on Levi Monroe the football team quarterback, since as long as she can remember. Will there be love or disappointment? This is my first book so be patient and comment what you think it means a lot. Thank you!❤️

Anthony Greyson's family owns a well known flower shop in the town of Fort Collins, Colorado. He's a quiet, sarcastic, stubborn, and hard working junior that's on the swim team. Anthony has a small group of loyal friends and is an only child. Christian Riley's family is well known in Fort Collins for their big business. He's immature, athletic, a player, and hot headed. Christian's the captain of the school's soccer team and is known for being a bad boy. Guys want to be him and girls want him. One day, Christian comes in to Anthony's family flower shop and asks for a passive aggressive 'fuck you' in flowers. What happens when you take two boys and mix in an angry goat, paper airplanes, birds with a vengeance, and a jealous cow? Read to find out.

Swim Season. The one sport I actually look forward to every year. I know I started out as a freshman, but I fell in love with it. At the time, my life was full of tragedy and depression. But I made lifelong friends and even moved on from an almost unmentionable incident. The stories behind a high school swimmer's life. ~CAUTION~ Swearing, lots and lots of swearing. AUTOBIOGRAPHY.. Well, sort of. NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED FROM ORIGINAL PERSONS ENJOY!!

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.

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!

Basil St. James is a junior in high school when the Statue of Liberty mysteriously disappears one fateful September night. All he knows is school, swimming, and trying to figure out what college he wants to go to. So of course, he doesn't really dwell on the missing statue. That all changes when the Vidal siblings transfer to his high school on Bancroft Island. Rumors swirl around them, accusing them of stealing the Statue of Liberty, but is that really true? To everyone else, their father is the highly private billionaire, Achilles Vidal, and their mother a French model. But to Aristotle, Caspian, and Delia, their parents have entirely different secret lives. Why do the Vidal siblings think that they have the means to bring back the statue? If they really didn't steal it, that is. Why do they move to Bancroft Island? All Basil St. James knows is that his junior year just got a hell of a lot more interesting.

(Book #1 of the Westbrook Minnesota University Series) Lottie Mae Collins, the golden girl of Westbrook Minnesota University, is stepping into her junior year with her signature charm and a plan: make memories, have fun, and soak up every moment with her friends. Grant Smitt, the 6'6" captain of WMU's powerhouse hockey team, has had his sights set on Lottie since the night they met two years ago. A night she doesn't even remember. To Lottie, Grant is just the quiet, brooding goalie with a reputation as unbreakable as the puck-stopping wall he is on the ice. But as Grant and Lottie find themselves spending more and more time together, she learns there's more to the story. There's something about his soft Canadian accent and him being surprisingly in touch with his emotions that has Lottie second-guessing her first impression. Grant may be a fortress on the ice, but off it? He's crumbling for the girl who has no idea she's been his since the day they met.