2011 Teams

Team Bank of America will be participating for the first time in the Boston Dragon Boat Festival this year.  Co-sponsored by the Bank of America Asian Leadership Network & Bank of America Community Volunteers Recreation Network and trained by Living Root.  The Team consists of BOA associates, family and friends.

Closing in on a decade of participation in the Boston Dragon Boat Festival, the Brimmer and May Gators bring a combination of the energy of youth and the experience of well-seasoned age to the Charles River.  Led by Dietrich "D-Train" Pultinas, the third great Pultinas paddler, and Gia "Vamanos" Upchurch, the Gators are aiming for another Youth Division championship.  CHOMP! CHOMP! CHOMP! FEAR THE GATOR!

Brimmer and May, a coeducational, college preparatory day school for over 400 students in pre-kindergarten through grade twelve, remains committed to educating thoughtful, wise, and ethical citizens for our country and the world community.

Dynamic, competitive, fun, and supportive are the foundational pillars that highlight Catch22's uniqueness as a dragon boat team.  Comprised primarily of young professionals within the New York City area, Catch22 seeks to build a team of like-minded athletes.  We are driven by the desire to grow and improve as a crew to establish ourselves within the dragon boat community as a force to be reckoned with.

Once a year, the legendary Deloitte Dragons are roused from their slumber from deep within the bowels of Chinatown to compete in the Annual Boston Dragon Boat Race Festival. Comprised of the fiercest Accountants, Consultants, and Tax professionals within Massachusetts, the Dragons are hand-picked by the Gods (on a first-come, first-served basis). Following a rigorous, year-long training period that involves countless hours of computer work, ten-key data entry, Dragon Boat maintenance classes, reviews of financial documents, and wood-chopping; each Dragon is trained for two things: 1. Delivering excellent client service and 2. WINNING!!!! Although 2011 is the year of the Rabbit, on Sunday, June 12th the DRAGONS TAKE OVER!!!

Dragon Divas is a group of women from diverse backgrounds who come together to honor the tradition of Dragon Boat racing and to promote physical activity among women. Many of us are new to dragon boat, yet we all share enthusiasm and mutually encourage each other to do our best and have a lot of fun.

We are a group of heart-y women who love paddling together on beautiful Lake Champlain. Though all over 40, we will be forever young because of our joy of paddling together. We began as family, friends, and supporters of Dragonheart Vermont Sisters- a breast cancer survivor team here in Burlington, Vermont. Inspired by the determination and heart of Sisters, it turns out that we love dragon boating as much as they do. We share a joy of dragon boating, sisterhood, and laughter. Our bodies feel stronger, our friendships have multiplied, and our hearts have grown bigger because of Dragonheart.

The Emerson College Lions Dragon Boat team is made up of students, faculty, staff, and alumni representing the nation's only college devoted exclusively to communication and the arts.  In its second appearance at the Boston Dragon Boat Festival, the Lions seek to honor the tradition of dragon boating, while celebrating Emerson's commitment to community, diversity, and teamwork! ROAR!

HOPE IN THE BOAT is the New York Capital Region’s award winning and only Dragon Boat team. Paddled by a group of determined and positive thinking Breast Cancer Survivors, this team started by paddling around picnic tables in 2008, purchased their first boat in 2009, and this year has expanded to include a crew of Friends and Family. Living their mission to celebrate life, promote wellness and provide hope and partnership to those on a breast cancer journey, they can be found happily paddling on the Hudson River.

Our mission is to promote the Dragon Boat Festival in the Northeastern University community.  Our goal is to consolidate a competitive Dragon Boat team that represents our university in the different races developed in Boston and New England area.  This is the third year we participate in the Boston Dragon Boat Festival and we are very proud of winning the College Division last year.

Our team members consist of MathWorkers and their friends/family members. We come to the race with big heart and high spirit. On the job, we accelerate the pace of engineering and science; off the work, we help promote the ancient Asian culture.

Our team is a combination of MIT technicians, grad students, and post-docs. Hailing from Cambridge Massachusetts and ready to glide through the Charles, we are the Transgenic Dragons.

For nearly 15 years, State Street Corporation, an industry leader in financial services, has proudly sponsored participation in the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival of Boston. This event helps celebrate both our diversity and support of State Street's commitment to inclusion. Paddlers come from a cross section of both our operations areas (Global Markets, Securities Finance and Information Technology to name a few) and a wide range of cultural backgrounds.  This year we are also fielding an all women's team The Golden Dragonets.  Support for the Dragon Boat festival is another way we help strengthen working relations and build team work and cultural awareness. We are proud to sponsor the 2011 Boston Dragon Boat Festival, the oldest festival of its kind in North America.

We are the Chinese Young Professional Networking.  We have close to a thousand members.  Our team is the Team Impeccable - we are a group of young, and young at heart active fun team.

Let's Sink Together is a Montreal Dragon Boat Club since 2005. This is a competitive Dragon Boat Club that is looking to improve years after years. Please visit http://www.lstremix.ca for more additional information.

We're pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And we plan on finding out what that is.

Vitasoy USA has deemed a special place for Dragon Boat Racing and is sponsoring The Seadogs Dragon Boat Team.  The Seadogs is managed and coached by members that have passion and competitiveness for the sport.  Through the visions and guidance of these coaches and leaders, the Seadogs have remained a top 5 New York Team and getting stronger.   Through implemented training regiments, we have successfully converted unmotivated ‘couch potatoes’ into strong paddlers with winning spirits.  All team members motivate through others and their success builds upon the team and their strive to win.  Although structured, the Seadogs team is not without their recreational merits.  Team members also participate with other sporting activities such as biking, running, fishing, and other questionable sport activities like Poker and Bar Hopping?