Matt Thompson learns to pace himself when his school track club disbands and he has to decide if he wants to leave his teammates and friends to join an elite club that trains at another school.
Bill Tyler, his privileges taken away due to a failing grade in English, decides to distract himself by training for a triathlon race, but he soon learns that avoiding the things that are difficult in life is no way to handle problems.
Twelve-year-old Maya, an accomplished figure skater, is being pressured to pursue her late mother's goal of competing in the Olympics, and must somehow find the courage to follow her own dream of playing hockey.
The Brunswick Valley School soccer team's star goalie has a progressive eye disease and teammate Linh-Mai helps him through the changes that will occur.
The friendly Saturday soccer games between Brunswick Valley and a neighboring town suddenly get too serious when the parents of some of the players get a coach and now the kids have to find a way to bring their games back to the way they were.