swim teams

After Emma makes the swim team her best friend, Izzie, (who did not make it) has started to avoid her, and Emma fears that she will have to choose between the swim team and her friendship.

Addy has never been good at sports. She's so clumsy, she's earned the name Hurricane Addy, but this year, all of that is going to change. Addy wants to join the swim team at the Club. She's surprised to learn how much exercise and training it takes to become a strong swimmer. Does Addy have what it takes to be the athlete she always dreamed of becoming?.

"When the children of workers on a 1930s Maui sugar plantation were chased away from playing in the nearby irrigation ditches, local science teacher Soichi Sakamoto had an idea. He offered to take responsibility for the children--and then he began training them how to swim. Using his science background, Sakamoto devised his own innovative coaching techniques: he developed a strict practice regime for the kids, building their strength and endurance by using the ditch water's natural current. The children worked hard under the dedicated Sakamoto's guidance, and their skills improved. They formed a swim club and began to dominate in swimming events around the world. And then one day, the proud Sakamoto saw an impossible dream come true--Olympic gold!"--From the publisher's web site.

In this twenty-ninth Heidi Heckelbeck adventure, Heidi and her friends have a pool party! When Heidi's swim team, the Little Mermaids, want to raise money for new swim caps and goggles, Heidi helps with the perfect idea: They should throw a pool party! The temperature in Brewster has been hot, hot, hot, and all the kids in town are looking for a way to cool down. With the help of her team, friends, and a little magic, Heidi brings her pool party idea to life.

"Marilla must make a choice between trying out for a singing competition with her new friend and competing in a big swim meet to make her parents proud"--CIP.

Although only in eighth grade Baxter Reilly is an important member of the Edgeview High School in Tempe, Arizona, and lately the pool has been his place of refuge from the stress of his parents' separation--but now, between the pending divorce, his father's miserable apartment, his mother's new boyfriend, and the resentment and bullying from his older teammates, it is getting harder to focus on his role as the anchor of the 4 x 400 freestyle relay in the upcoming races.

When Katharine joins the Stingrays Swim Team, she finds herself once again in competition with her schoolmate Vanessa, who swims for the Sharks.

While enjoying a weekend at the local swim club, Grace looks forward to spending time with the cute boys from the swim team and letting go of a troubled friendship while struggling to raise funds to become an official club member.

Jenny loves swimming, and her best friend has finally convinced her to join the school swim team--but when she is confronted by a crowd of spectators in competition she freezes up.

When two of her Neptunia relay team members are injured and unable to swim in the thirteen-year-olds' race, Cora presses her friends Rachel and Shyanna into service--but when the team's lucky Sea Lion statue disappears Cora fears sabotage and sets out to find the guilty party, and her chief suspect is a merboy on the rival Titania team.