This Rec League was suggested by Sarahwasme in the SBTB Podcast Patreon Discord:
I am so mad at US men’s hockey team I could spit. (Not really, I hate when dudes do that.) I want to buy all the sports romances featuring women’s team players and gift them to random people on the street. Maybe with a whistle.
Anyone have recs for romances featuring women’s league/national team? My first thought is FMC/Soccer player in Mariana Zapata’s Kulti – already planning on a reread.
JoVE in the podcast discord: Wake Up Nat and Darcy. ( A | BN | K | AB ) 2 former Olympians doing broadcast at the Olympics. 2nd chance. Forced proximity. It’s good.
Jfhobbit in the podcast discord: Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner features two professional soccer players who also play for the USWNT.
Josephine in the podcast discord: If Only You by Chloe Liese ( A | BN | K ) is a female soccer star and queer disaster of a man in a fake friends to lovers. Yes, he’s a hockey player, but Seb (and Ren, his captain and Ziggy’s brother) would never.
There’s a sapphic Cricket series ( A ) that’s not bad too. The first one is members of the Australian national team.
Amanda: We had an Olympics Rec League from 2024 that may have some recommendations.
What books would you recommend? Drop them in the comments!
Kelly Farmer’s Out on the Ice series is an f/f hockey series; I enjoyed it.
Playmaker by Lauren Gallagher (aka LA Witt) is a standalone f/f hockey romance.
Seconding Kelly Farmer! And I loved Anita Kelly’s How You Get the Girl, which involves two former women’s basketball players now co-coaching a team of teen girls (and falling in love).