2023 Dragon Boat Festival Teams
Teams Listed by Team Name
| Team Name | Biography | Contact & Email | |
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| BJ’s Sportshop Mario Party
Funding Status: Total Raised: $0 |
BJ’s Sportshop is back and better than ever! For our seventh year of competition, we have expanded our fun loving group of friends & family of BJ’s Sportshop. We can’t wait to get paddlin’! | Elizabeth: elizabeth@hyfinc.org
Division: Community Mixed |
| Team Name | Biography | Contact & Email | |
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| Chicago Sirens
Funding Status: Total Raised: $500 |
Unlike the Greek god, this team of Siren women causes destruction with their sweet paddling technique. Started in 2016 as part of the Greater Chicago Dragon Boat club, this women’s team is made up of local, national and international paddlers. Led by coach Melissa, these ladies show the strength and friendship that can be created from the sport of dragon boating. | Kim: treasurer@chicagodragonboat.com
Division: Club All Female |
| Team Name | Biography | Contact & Email | |
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| The Dragon Flys
Funding Status: Total Raised: $800 |
We are a team of friends who know very little about dragon boating however we do know a lot about having fun! | Beth: beth@nsmprojects.com
Division: Community Mixed |
| Team Name | Biography | Contact & Email | |
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| Dragons of Steel
Funding Status: Total Raised: $100 |
The Women of Steel 460 from Tomahawk. Working to bind our factory with fun, water, food, drink and best of all dragons! The WOS are women who work to make a difference in the community and our workplace by helping and advocating Womens rights. | Christine: mertesce@icloud.com
Division: Community Mixed |
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| The Flying Ears
Funding Status: Total Raised: $100 |
The Flying Ears is a club team from DeKalb County, Illinois. We have been racing since 2013 and 2023 will be our 5th year racing in Minocqua. We race in honor of our team founder, Mary Beth McGill, who started our team back in 2009. The team changed the name from The Flying Ears to Paddlin’ for MB when Mary Beth was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2011. She lost her battle to this terrible disease in December of 2012, but not until she saw her namesake team win its first championship in St Charles, IL in June 2012. By 2013 the club had grown in membership to the point where a second team was created, and the team name The Flying Ears was resurrected. By 2019 The Flying Ears won 4 Gold and 2 Silver. We race today in honor and memory of Mary Beth. We wear our team motto, “No One Fights Alone’ on our shirts honoring those who may be fighting a disease or other personal issues and saying, You Are Not Alone in your struggle. | Gary: salgar61@aol.com
Division: Club Mixed |
| Team Name | Biography | Contact & Email | |
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| Fire & Smoke
Funding Status: Total Raised: $100 |
We are a collection of amateur dragon boat enthusiasts. We paddle for fun once a year enjoying the camaraderie and competition for a good cause. | Erin: erin5181@yahoo.com |
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| Motley Crew
Funding Status: Total Raised: $100 |
We are the Motleyest group of paddlers you would ever want to meet on or off the water. | Steve: hutchhaus@hotmail.com |
| Team Name | Biography | Contact & Email | |
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| Mushroom Hill Gang
Funding Status: Total Raised: $100 |
This team is built from generations of friends paddling in honor and memory of Dr. George Anast. A pioneer of modern emergency medicine and world-renowned orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Anast was influential in developing healthcare in the Northwoods and beyond. We are so thankful he shared his talents with us as part of the photography team with Geri Miller. | Linda: Lhutch784@gmail.com |
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| Off the Edge
Funding Status: Total Raised: $500 |
Off the Edge is a competative all women dragon boat team paddling together since 2012. We claim White Bear Lake as our home, but paddlers come from all over the Twin Cities metro area in Minnesota. We channel our White Bear energy into all our competitions! | Lisa: yogadevo@gmail.com |
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| Racine Dragon Belles
Funding Status: Total Raised: $100 |
A wild group of ladies that when knocked down will get back up spitting fire. | Steve: hutchhaus@hotmail.com |
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Funding Status: Total Raised: $0 |
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