2023 Teams
Minocqua Dragon Boat Festival
Minocqua Dragon Boat Festival
The Aspirus Water Dragons includes Aspirus Health employees and their families from across our system. We’re beginners and we plan to showcase how a group of individuals from north central Wisconsin can come together for a terrific cause.
Division: Community Mixed
Total Raised: $
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’!
Division: Community Mixed
Total Raised: $150
We are a team of misfits made up of Aspirus Rhinelander Behavioral Health Associates and their friends and family. We are looking forward to spreading mental health awareness and rowing for a great cause!
Division: Community Mixed
Total Raised: $
This is our first year competing in the Dragon Boat Festival and we are very excited. The Central Wisconsin Fun and Adventure Club is a Facebook group focused on getting together as a group and staying active through a variety of fun adventures!
If it's fun and gets you out and moving... we will give it a try!
From hiking to paddling, bingo to biking, snowshoeing to cross country skiing, tubing to dancing, walking to running... or just about anything else that gets you active... while enjoying the company of like-minded folks!
We will create events that will be inclusive to all skill levels and abilities to experience and enjoy all that Central Wisconsin has to offer!
We are sponsored by Society Insurance.
Division: Community Mixed
Total Raised: $700
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.
Division: Club - Women
Total Raised: $500
The Dragon Divas of Minnesota founded in 2006 emphasize the benefits of exercise in living longer and thriving following a diagnosis of breast cancer and demonstrate how to live a life without limits following the diagnosis. We promote awareness in the wider community about the importance of early detection and the benefits of an active lifestyle in fighting this disease. We are dedicated to helping survivors attain their personal wellbeing in body and spirit. We support and encourage each other’s journey through mentorship and our unique camaraderie. We honor those who have gone before us for what they have taught us about living with and dying from this disease, and what their journey has taught our physicians and researchers about curing this disease. We empower survivors to thrive as the strongest and most courageous versions of themselves in the boat and in their communities.
Division: Cancer Survivor
Total Raised: $600
We are a group of women who started paddling together last summer. With a varied level of experience, we are giving people an opportunity to learn and enjoy the sport of dragon boating in a fun Northwoods environment. We are excited to participate in the Minocqua festival.
Division: Club - Women
Total Raised: $700
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.
Division: Community Mixed
Total Raised: $1150
Cardio Partners – The world’s largest reseller of automated external defibrillators and other medical products, nestled in the middle of the beautiful North Woods. We are a tight knit work family that works hard, plays hard, thinks global and can paddle electrifyingly fast. If we burn up the competition it’s because we had something spicy for lunch.
Division: Community - Mixed
Total Raised: $
This is our 4th year participating in the Dragon Boat Festival. Our team is made up of co-workers, family, and friends of Trigs. We look forward to seeing everyone in Minocqua for this great event and we can’t wait to go head to head with our co-workers. Paddles up!
Division: Community Mixed
Total Raised: $5000
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.
Division: Community Mixed
Total Raised: $900
Island City Dragon Boat Club Nonprofit Purpose: The Island City Dragon Boat Club, Inc. is dedicated to teaching and training adult and youth athletes from the greater Minocqua area and surrounding counties in the sport of dragon boat paddling and dragon boat racing.
The future of dragon boating is bright with this newly formed team in the Lakeland area. With help from the Island City Dragon Boat Club, this young group of dragons was “hatched” in 2022. This mixed youth program is based in Minocqua, Wisconsin, and is coached by Mike Mondrall. This team is excited to roar with the dragons.
Division: Junior Youth U16
Total Raised: $150
"Island City Dragon Boat Club Nonprofit Purpose: The Island City Dragon Boat Club, Inc. is dedicated to teaching and training adult and youth athletes from the greater Minocqua area and surrounding counties in the sport of dragon boat paddling and dragon boat racing.
Newly formed in 2023, we have group of men committed to learn the sport of dragon boat racing and join the Island City ladies. These gentlemen , "Fish", will be paired with Island City Sisters and Holy Ship ladies, "Chicks" for the very first time.
Team formed in 2023. Team located in Minocqua, WI. Coached by Mike Mondrall."
Division: Club Mixed
Total Raised: $600
"Island City Dragon Boat Club Nonprofit Purpose: The Island City Dragon Boat Club, Inc. is dedicated to teaching and training adult and youth athletes from the greater Minocqua area and surrounding counties in the sport of dragon boat paddling and dragon boat racing.
We are a team of multi-generational, fun-loving women who have a passion for the sport of dragon boat racing. We train hard, race hard, and have tons of fun. We have made and will make great memories together.
Formed in 2017. Based in Minocqua, WI. Coached by Mike Mondrall."
Division: Club Women's
Total Raised: $600
"Island City Dragon Boat Club Nonprofit Purpose: The Island City Dragon Boat Club, Inc. is dedicated to teaching and training adult and youth athletes from the greater Minocqua area and surrounding counties in the sport of dragon boat paddling and dragon boat racing.
We are a team of multi-generational, fun-loving women who have a passion for the sport of dragon boat racing. We train hard, race hard, and have tons of fun. We have made and will make great memories together.
Formed in 2017. Based in Minocqua, WI. Coached by Mike Mondrall."
Division: Club Women's
Total Raised: $1150
The LaCrosse Mississippi Sisters is a composite team from LaCrosse and Madison. We have each heard the words "you have cancer" and journeyed down different paths. We have come together through dragon boat, where we survive and thrive and support one another.
Division: Cancer Survivor
Total Raised: $600
This is our opportunity to move out of the stresses and rigors of Military life, culture of discipline and have some much needed excitement . When you see us paddling your way "MAKE A HOLE"! Soldiers on Sleds is always looking for an opportunity to help relieve the stressors that contribute to PTSD. Welcome us, some of America's finest! Cheer us on as we glide by. But don't blink an eye or you'll miss us.
Division: Community Mixed
Total Raised: $200
We are the Motleyest group of paddlers you would ever want to meet on or off the water.
Division: Club - Mixed
Total Raised: $500
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.
Division: Community Mixed
Total Raised: $700
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!
Division: Club - Women
Total Raised: $500
Pink Paddling Power is a breast cancer survivor team from Racine that was started in 2006. We have raced in the US, Canada, Hong Kong and Italy. We are part of the Racine Dragon Boat Club and are involved in many community events and promote survivorship through dragon boating.
Division: Club - Survivor
Total Raised: $600
The Pukall Studs is a group of Pukall Lumber employees, customers and friends. We are looking forward to a day of competition and camaraderie on the waters of Lake Minocqua, and to raising money for health care for our community. Much as studs support structures, we support our community!
Division: Community - Mixed
Total Raised: $
A wild group of ladies that when knocked down will get back up spitting fire.
Division: Club - Women
Total Raised: $500
Team is mostly made up of wacky people who grew up together along the Everett Resort colony on Cranberry Lake in Eagle River. We paddle hard and party harder. Lots of lifetime friendships and endless stories.
Division: Community - Mixed
Total Raised: $1150
This is our 5th year participating in the Dragon Boat Festival. This is a returning group made up of co-workers, family, and friends of Trigs. Specifically Trigs in our Northwoods territory including Minocqua, Eagle River, Rhinelander and Manitowish Waters. We look forward to seeing everyone in Minocqua for this great event. Check out our sister team, Fiery Fresh!
Division: Community - Mixed
Total Raised: $5100
We are a team of friends who know very little about dragon boating however we do know a lot about having fun!
Division: Community Mixed
Total Raised: $1500
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.
Division: Club - Mixed
Total Raised: $500
The WXPR Radio Waves is excited to be part of the Festival. Our WXPR Public Radio volunteers and friends are on a mission to have fun and support a good cause at the Festival! WXPR’s mission is to inform, entertain, and engage our community; enrich lives with music, information, and interaction; and build positive lasting relationships. Our goals combined with the goals of the Festival help build strong communities! We’re ready to make good waves...and we're celebrating WXPR's 40th birthday!
Division: Community - Mixed
Total Raised: $50