Career
He is a 2-time Olympian, having swum at the 2000 and 2008 Olympics.He represented Northern Ireland four times at the Commonwealths and placed fifth twice in the 200m breaststroke. His home club is Ards, but as of 2008 he trains in the United States at the University of Tennessee. After swimming at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
He failed to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
In the months leading up to the 2008 Olympics he tested positive at a drug test. Bree claimed that he had used a nasal spray and did not know it contained banned substances.
The results of the drug test were later overturned and he was allowed swim at the Beijing Olympics. Bree qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics at the 2008 United States National Swimming Championships in Indiana by swimming a new personal best time and then-Irish record of 2:13.14 in the 200 m breaststroke.
At the British Swimming Championships in June 2008 he swam the 100 m breaststroke in a time of 1:01.83 which allowed him to swim the 100 m breaststroke at the Olympics also.
He was also entered in the heats of the 200 metres individual medley but scratched from the heats. He is also Irish record holder in the 100 m breaststroke (1:0178) and the 200 m individual medley (2:0443). In 2012, Bree was an analyst on the 2012 Olympics swimming coverage on Raidió Teilifís Éireann Sport.