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Title: Paddle4Kids 2009 Post by: Backward Rowing on August 30, 2009, 06:35:43 PM Another year, a few dollars raised for BC Children's Hospital Foundation.
As with others in the Metro Vancouver dragon boating community, members of Team Storm volunteered in various capacities this year. I seemed to go well both dry land and on the water. Only two issues I heard of. One was an unfortunate incident of a steersperson falling in to the water during the obstacle course. The other was a moored sailboat that happened to drift into lane 3 during a race. All in all, I had fun, in particular, the obstacle race. Title: Re: Paddle4Kids 2009 Post by: Backward Rowing on August 30, 2009, 06:49:49 PM Results
MORNING HEAT (http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Paddle4Kids%202009/P1050437.jpg) FINAL HEAT (http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Paddle4Kids%202009/P1050439.jpg) Title: Re: Paddle4Kids 2009 Post by: Backward Rowing on August 30, 2009, 06:54:12 PM Pictures from Heat 11
CanWEA & Friends (http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Paddle4Kids%202009/P1050426.jpg) (http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Paddle4Kids%202009/P1050430.jpg) (http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Paddle4Kids%202009/P1050431.jpg) CanWEA & Friends with a cropping of KWL Tailgators (http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Paddle4Kids%202009/P1050432.jpg) AMEC Dragon Wings (http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Paddle4Kids%202009/P1050427.jpg) (http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Paddle4Kids%202009/P1050428.jpg) (http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m92/gingersnaps1969/Paddle4Kids%202009/P1050429.jpg) Title: Re: Paddle4Kids 2009 Post by: fdragon on August 30, 2009, 07:29:44 PM Thanks so much for this! Looks like fun! Did you have junior teams starting at this event? I'm looking for attractive races for our junior team in 2010...
Title: Re: Paddle4Kids 2009 Post by: Backward Rowing on August 30, 2009, 08:51:17 PM I think we had two juniors, one who steered for an corporate team, and another who drummed for another corporate team. Both coached these teams as they have never dragon boated before. They seemed to handled themselves well with the grown-ups.
Some established teams did participate, but there were a lot of people from the paddling community who volunteered. To give you an idea, 14 of 24 crews required both drummer and steersperson at this event. A number of teams were short the minimum paddlers and had to recruit from other volunteers and rival teams. It is a fun event, which a lot of the paddlers are experiencing dragon boating for the first time. Title: Re: Paddle4Kids 2009 Post by: fdragon on August 30, 2009, 09:01:38 PM Oh wow... may be it's better if we come and steer and drum for you then :-)
Hope it was fun! Title: Re: Paddle4Kids 2009 Post by: three_wishes5 on August 31, 2009, 09:08:32 AM Actually the steersperson fell in during the obstacle race...I know...I was the caller.
Title: Re: Paddle4Kids 2009 Post by: Backward Rowing on August 31, 2009, 01:39:25 PM Thx three_wishes5, I will correct my post.
Title: Re: Paddle4Kids 2009 Post by: Waterbunny on August 31, 2009, 04:31:22 PM Did anyone catch how much money was raised overall this year?
I missed that. Thanks Title: Re: Paddle4Kids 2009 Post by: paddling geek on August 31, 2009, 05:06:23 PM Over 90,000 I believe.
All I know my h2o geeks had a blast (13 of them never even been a dragon boat before July) Title: Re: Paddle4Kids 2009 Post by: Waterbunny on September 01, 2009, 12:39:08 PM Thank you, Paddling Geek.
I heard back from P4K today and was told: The total announced on-site was $90,062... but some additional donations have come in post-event to put our total at $95,681! Good work everyone! |