The swimming teams have been very successful in recent years at both Ulster and Irish levels. The team also compete at the Bath Cup each year which is a competition in England for the best swimming schools in the the UK.

 

Bath Cup Report 2018

The CGS swimming team recently travelled to London to take part in the Bath Cup, Otter Medley and Whitgift Invitational events.The first competition took place at Whitgift school in East Croydon and the boys competed in this event for the first time.The gala consisted of both individual and team events and was contested by eight schools.The girls team swam fantastically to retain the trophy for best overall school.The boys team also competed well to finish in fourth place overall.The standout performances in this competition came from Molly who won the individual girls 50m breaststroke for the third year in succession with a new personal best time of 32.76 secs, and Albert who also recorded a new personal best time of 56.98 in the individual 100m freestyle.

On Friday morning, the team travelled to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford to take part in the Bath Cup and Otter Medley competitions. In the 4 x 100m freestyle relay, the boys team finished in a very respectable 24^th place out of 72 schools.The medley relay team finished in 20^th place in the Otter Medley event.

The girls freestyle relay team of finished 23^rd out of 70 schools, but excelled themselves in the medley relay in reaching the final and finishing in 8^th place overall.The team became the first CGS team to reach a final in this competition.

The team returned to Belfast International late on Saturday evening following another very enjoyable and successful tour.

 

 

 

The school has many talented swimmers including the current Irish 100m Breastroke champion.

 

Success at the Irish Championships.

                                                             

Two of our year 8 pupils participated in the Ulster Minor Schools Championships in 2018 winning gold medals in the 50m backstroke and 50m butterfly, and silver and bronze medals in the 50m breaststroke.