Cathedral College top 10 in state swimming championships

CATHEDRAL College came ninth in the School Sport Victoria Swimming Championships, improving upon their placing of 31st last year. Forty-six students from the school competed in the championships against 49 other schools on Friday, April 19 at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre after coming first in regionals earlier in the year. They had 12 swimmers qualify for 19 individual events, with one of the standouts being year 7 Max Chandler who won bronze in each of his 50-metre butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke and freestyle events. The majority of the school’s success came from their 13 relay teams. “All medley and freestyle relay teams smashed the times they swam at the regional championships,” Cathedral College teacher, Sue Synnot, said. Emily McLean, Amelia Conway, Zoe Riordan and Mia McGuffie of the year 4 girls freestyle relay team, and Hannah Sanders, Imogen Mattey, Jasmine Horne and Alice Colson from the 15-year-old girls freestyle relay team all achieved bronze medals. “It was a pretty good feeling coming first at regionals and then going on to state's with my relay team,” Alice Colson said. The year 5 boys, 14-year-old boys and the 15-year-old boys finished a narrow fourth in their respective relays. School principal, Nick Jones, said he is proud of all the swimmers who competed and improved upon their performance from last year. “We had our largest group of swimmers qualify for the states,” he said. “For a school in regional Victoria to compete against all the big schools across the state and to finish within the top 10 is an amazing result. “Big thank you to Lauren Lee and Sue Synnot who put a lot of time and effort into building our swimmers and helping out our swimming program which continues to go from strength to strength.” Ms Synnot said they are looking forward to building upon their skills for next year. “All students should be proud of their efforts, and we look forward to next year and more success,” she said.

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