Swimming Stories

Max Petrauskas is the only Bolles Shark going to Orlando. He qualified for NCSA. His team didn't. So they're all coming anyway - Krish, who won't stop making jokes. Shoesmith, who won't stop being right about everything. Allison, who's already organized the whole trip. And the rest of them, holding up a sign that says SHARK BAIT. Sherya Chatterjee has been to a hundred travel meets. She's got her taper, her playlist, her AP Chem flashcards, and a boyfriend who says "I love you" mid-set. Then she tells Max he's blocking her lane. 🦈 Over five days in Orlando, two swimmers from rival clubs go from strangers to phone numbers to the kind of texting that makes a person's mom ask who's on the phone. And through the rest of the year - through Nationals in Irvine, through a summer camp in Colorado Springs where they finally almost say it out loud - they have to figure out what they actually are. 400 miles apart. Two different clubs. One very long group chat. The only thing harder than a 200 butterfly is being seventeen. - 🏊 What to expect: • Alternating POV (Max 🩵 / Sherya 💙) • Friends-to-lovers, slow burn, long distance • Swimming meets, taper chaos, relay DQs • Found family, terrible jokes, Waffle House at midnight • A boy who says "cool" when he means everything • A girl who makes a plan for everything except him Updates on Wednesdays, Fridays & Saturdays. Comments keep me alive.

𝐉𝐎𝐄𝐘 𝐋𝐘𝐍𝐂𝐇 has nothing. Somehow, he still manages to feel everything. Every thought comes too loudly, every memory leaves its fingerprints, and every wound he has spent years pretending doesn't hurt seems to find a way back to the surface. He grew up too quickly, learned too young that loving people sometimes means protecting them from the things they should never have had to survive, and somewhere along the way, forgot that he was allowed to be a boy instead of a shield. There is always something waiting to break inside him, and Joey has become very good at breaking himself first. So when the noise becomes unbearable, he reaches for the one thing that knows how to make it stop - 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝐂𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐍 𝐅𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐘 has everything. Somehow, he still manages to feel nothing. At least, that's what he tells himself. He has learned how to disappear inside his own skin, how to smile when he wants to scream, how to make everyone believe he is fine because being honest would mean admitting just how badly he isn't. When numbness becomes too much to bear, he searches for something that will remind him he is still alive, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴. 𝑪𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑱𝒐𝒆𝒚, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑱𝒐𝒆𝒚 𝒊𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝑪𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒂𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒌𝒆𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒔𝒂𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆. 𝗝𝗢𝗘𝗬 𝗟𝗬𝗡𝗖𝗛 𝗫 𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗘 𝗢𝗖 | 𝗚𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣𝗬 𝗫 𝗚𝗥𝗨𝗠𝗣𝗬

Five swimmers. One apocalypse. No finish line. Rachel Leow was a junior at Davis Senior High. A fly/back specialist. A former tennis player who found her true home in the water. She had dreams of college championships and Olympic trials. Then the world ended. Now Rachel and her four best friends-Athena, Brianna, Kiera, and Summer-are fighting to survive. From the swim meets of Northern California to the mountains of the Sierra Nevada, they'll learn that the pool taught them more than how to swim. It taught them how to endure. A story of friendship, loss, and the relentless will to keep moving forward.

Ayumi is a seventeen-year-old professional swimmer. She was born to swim. She could swim before she could walk. While training in her school's pool, she feels a sudden, terrible pain in her chest. Her body sinks beneath the surface. 'What's happening?!' One of her classmates pulls her from drowning, but she's left terrified. The water paralyses her now. Even taking a bath makes her anxious. Her passion has become her worst nightmare. She starts to wonder if life is still worth living, until the day she meets Kano, a merman. She's drowning in darkness. He shines like light. She hates the water. He was born in it. She's down-to-earth. He's a dreamer. She's afraid. He's fearless. Together, they intend to bring Ayumi back to swimming.

Two swimmers. Two states. One summer that changes everything. Danny Boyle (17, Jersey Wahoos) has the talent. Rachel Frederick (17, Team Greenville) has the drive. They meet at a swim meet, exchange one awkward glance, and spend the next three months texting. By the time they finally meet for real at the NCSA Summer Championships, they're already falling. But with a boyfriend in the way, a Nationals meet in California, and college decisions looming, Danny and Rachel have to figure out if what they have is worth the distance - or if it's just a summer thing. Fast Lane is a dual-POV YA sports romance about first love, fast times, and the summer that changes everything.

The water remembers. So does he. Seventeen-year-old Brandon Kilpatrick has one dream: to swim at Junior Nationals. Then September 13, 2026 happens. The world ends. The dead rise. And Brandon-along with his teammates, his coaches, and a handful of fellow swimmers-must navigate a nightmare no amount of training could prepare them for. Alongside him: David Sammons, his rival turned brother. Grace McCarthy, a Harvard-bound breaststroker. Sawyer Carlson, a team captain who becomes the group's strategist. Caylee Hollar, the girl who captured his heart. And Emily Connors-the heart of SwimMAC, the one who swam at Junior Nationals with them, the one who won't make it to the end. The water remembers. And so does he. Train to Busan meets competitive swimming in this gripping tale of survival, love, and the unbreakable spirit of an athlete.

Seventeen-year-old Elise Tan has spent her entire life in the water. Five AM practices. Two-a-days. Weekends sacrificed to the pool. As a junior at Corona del Mar High School and a member of Irvine Novaquatics, she's trained her body to endure the impossible - to keep going when her lungs burn and her arms scream and every part of her wants to quit. She never imagined that training would save her life. August 2026. After a breakthrough performance at Junior Nationals, Elise and her best friend Sofia celebrate with a trip to Las Vegas - a weekend of concerts, neon lights, and one last taste of normalcy before senior year. Then the outbreak begins. At the NE-YO & AKON concert, the MGM Grand Garden Arena becomes ground zero. The infection spreads faster than the music can stop. Elise, Sofia, and Sofia's younger sister Maddy barely escape the arena with their lives. The Strip is a war zone. The hotels are death traps. The Convention Center - the city's designated evacuation point - becomes a pressure cooker of desperation, overcrowding, and violence. Elise has one advantage: she's a swimmer. She knows how to hold her breath. How to stay calm under pressure. How to move through water silently. How to endure pain and keep going. But surviving the apocalypse isn't a race. It's an endurance event. And the finish line keeps moving. With a small group of survivors - teammates, rivals, strangers - Elise must lead them through a broken city toward the mountains. Toward safety. Toward hope. But in the deep end, there's no touching the wall. There's only swimming.

හඳවතෙහි ඇදි සිතුවමක්ද? 💕 නෙත්රූ × අශ්රූ දේව් × සිතෙව් නිතුන් × මිණිල

Hay personas que llegan a tu vida por casualidad. Y luego está él. Himari Kurosawa jamás quiso dejar Kamakura. Mucho menos empezar de cero en un país donde todo era diferente: el idioma, las costumbres, el colegio... incluso las personas. Cuando su familia se muda a Corea del Sur por el nuevo trabajo de su tío Takumi, lo único que espera es terminar la preparatoria sin llamar la atención. Pero sus planes desaparecen el mismo día en que conoce a Minho, un chico tan talentoso como insoportable. Él parece estar en todas partes. En el salón de clases. En la academia de natación. En el escenario de baile. Y, para colmo, sus familias terminan acercándose más de lo que cualquiera de los dos quisiera. Lo que comienza como una competencia por demostrar quién es el mejor pronto se convierte en algo mucho más difícil de entender. Porque, mientras ambos intentan ganarle al otro, también empiezan a descubrir que las primeras impresiones no siempre cuentan toda la historia. A veces, el lugar donde menos esperas sentirte en casa... termina siendo una persona.

A compete guide to The Rafferty University Book World! A collection of book series' following female college athletes and close friends as they take different paths down their careers and romantic journeys!

Emma has her future planned: college, competitive swimming, dental school-and maybe Tom, the teammate who has always been more than just a friend. Then she meets Jack. Mysterious, intense, and somehow familiar, he enters her life with secrets that shouldn't be possible. Caught between two love stories and a mystery that defies time itself, Emma must discover the truth before it changes everything. Some love stories begin with a first meeting. Others began long before.

Cool. Popular. Awesome. For Jenny Baker, those words don't mean fun. They mean survival. To protect herself from the brutal hallways of Oakwood high, Jenny joins forces with the ruthless queen bee Alisha. But high school popularity isn't free. The price? Your integrity. Your safety. And your secrets. When Alisha forces Jenny into a criminal stunt, the guilt begins to physically tear Jenny apart. Her only escape is the school pool, where a genuine new friendship with a girl named Anika offers her a lifeline. But Alisha doesn't take rejection lightly. As psychological manipulation escalates into a near-fatal pool assault and a devastating car crash, Jenny's small town is shaken to its core. Time is running out, sirens are echoing through the streets, and Jenny must face down her fears to expose the truth-before someone else pays the ultimate price. Sometimes, the most heroic thing you can do is stand up, walk away, and say goodbye. (Wrote with 31h0pp3r.)

Two states. Two sports. Three girls. One unforgettable year. Riya and Nithiya Shankar are identical twins who share everything-except the boys they're falling for. As competitive swimmers for NASA Wildcat Aquatics, they're chasing Junior National cuts while navigating the chaos of junior year, first kisses, and the terrifying question of what comes next. Twelve hundred miles away in Austin, Emily Donahue is a Minnesota walk-on fighting for her place on the University of Texas soccer team. With her dreams bigger than the stadium she plays in, she's about to discover that belonging isn't given-it's earned. They don't know each other. But they're about to learn the same lesson: The water doesn't care about crushes. The field doesn't care about doubts. Only the brave dive in. From the NCSA Spring Championships in Orlando to the Speedo Junior Nationals in Irvine, from prom night to SEC showdowns, Ripples & Goals is a heart-pounding, laugh-out-loud journey through love, ambition, and the beautiful chaos of becoming who you're meant to be. Perfect for fans of Never Have I Ever and Big Shot.

Rose is a 9th grade student. She studies in DPS Dubai but due to being scouted by a popular swimming coach she changes her school to American School of Dubai. This show her journey of her improving her swimming, adjusting to her new school and finding a hot, cute, kind, good-hearted and amazing boyfriend.

" මේ දැන් ඉදන්... තමුසෙ මගේ ගර්ල්ෆ්‍රෙන්ඩ් " ' Look at me, emerald...you're mine!' ආදිත්‍ර විහාර්ඝ විද්මන්යු වික්‍රමසිංහ 💚 මෙයිලි අරෝරා ලෝරන් Start : 2026 / 04 / 19 End : ongoing

Early retired swimming athlete, Malaika, returns to swimming as she lost her academic scholarship for school. Alongside that, she caught her boyfriend cheating with a bimbo on her school trip AND she set the school cafeteria kitchen on fire. For a sports scholarship to her new school, she works hard to get in shape over summer break and gets a job at a local café to pay the bills. Clouded with stress, she meets a cute boy her age offering swimming tactics and a break from reality. But she doesn't know the danger he brings.

Michael and Sebastian met during swim. Both manifested recently, Sebastian being an alpha, and Michael being a beta. Their friendship has continued, despite only seeing each other during the winter swim season. Michael says he has an online girlfriend, and when Sebastian sees her, they both fall immediately. As the romance between the three blooms, they realize the real thing holding each other back. Time passes, feelings blossom, and confusion bubbles. Will they end up together, or will their whole relationship end up in shambles? Only time will tell. authors' note Chat this is a fic about my friends with a very homoerotic relationship (dw both consented to making this fic lmao). Me and a few of my friends made this, and we are all working hard to make this actually readable. I'll be posting some of the drawings my friends do, so be ready for those :) This is an omegaverse fic, so if that makes you uncomfortable leave now! Light smut, light angst, meant to be taken very lightly. I'll post the ao3 link in the updates chapter, as well as any drawings my friends do. Hope y'all enjoy!

At Ashbourne University, everyone knows where the lines are drawn. Between power and privilege. Between ambition and obsession. Between the people you're expected to be and the person you actually are. Aarohi Oberoi knows how to win-until she doesn't. Mihir Malhotra has spent his entire life being untouchable. They were never supposed to become anything more than rivals. But somewhere between Sunday dinners, crowded university corridors, and the silence of the swimming lanes, the lines begin to blur. And once you cross one... There may be no going back.

Josie Smith has run the Redbrook pool deck for five summers, and the coveted Deck Captain pin is finally within her grasp. But just as the season kicks off, Eli Miller arrives. Armed with an easy grin, a higher-level safety certification, and the uncanny ability to get under Josie's skin, he is everything standing between her and the promotion she has staked her summer on. As the heat rises, professional rivalry dissolves into unspoken glances, synchronized rescues, and quiet moments on late-night closing shifts. When Redbrook's rigid pool politics test them both, Josie must decide what matters more: holding tight to the control she has always fought for, or letting herself jump in. A heartwarming, slow-burn summer romance packed with small-town charm, witty workplace banter, and the vulnerability of learning to share the deep end.

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.