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Who We Are

The University of Waterloo Dragon Boat Club (UWDBC) facilitates the creation and organization of dragon boat teams that represent the University of Waterloo (UW) at dragon boat regattas.

UWDBC is a University of Waterloo Campus Recreation competitive sport club.

Our Objective

At UWDBC, it is not about making the cut or being the best. Instead, our objective is to simply spread the “dragon boat” experience among UW students. Unlike conventional sports like hockey and basketball, dragon boat racing provides a thrilling new experience that makes it so much more exciting. Ask any paddler and he or she will agree that a single dragon boat race is one of the most invigorating 2 minutes to live through.

What We Do

We develop the resources that will make dragon boating as accessible as possible at UW. These resources include:

- A newly acquired BuK Dragon Boat for on-water practice
- Training and safety equipment
- Experienced personnel for coaching

How We Practice

Although regattas mainly take place in the Spring term, our club is active year-round. Practices are composed of strength and endurance training alongside technique development on and off the water.

Where We Race

We race in regattas all over Ontario including:

- Toronto

- Pickering

- Welland

- St Catharines

- and many more!

We are also planning to race in the 12th Club Crew World Championships in Hong Kong in the Spring of 2012!

History

On April 10th, 2008, Philip Wang in Systems Design Engineering 2012 and George Wang in Mechatronics Engineering 2012 after reminiscing about their high school dragon boat experiences on a whim decided to start a dragon boat team at UW for the Spring ’08 term. Enough interest was gathered to create two teams: UW Fire and UW Overclocked. Both teams competed at the Kiwanis Dragon Boat Festival of Waterloo Region on July 7th, 2008. UW Fire competed in the College & University Division and finished with a best time of 2:18.00. UW Overclocked was first in the Bronze Division with a best time of 2:24.77.

In the Fall ’08 term, Edward Yu and Darren Chan led the charge in making our club an official part of FEDS.

In the Winter '09 term George Wang, Stephen Lake, Juzer Sharafali and other execs continued the club.

In the Summer '09 term Edward Yu, Darren Chan and other execs ran the on-stream club while George Wang, Stephen Lake, Juzer Sharafali and Shelly-Ann Rampersad organized and ran the off-stream club on a co-op term in Toronto with all teams competing in at least one Regatta that summer.

The club hit a significant milestone in the Spring of 2010 when we finished in the top 6 of the University 'A' division in the Toronto International Dragon Boat Racing Festival with a time of 2:09.49.

For the first time since the club was conceived, we raced at Nationals in Welland and placed 3rd in the University category and 2nd in the under-23 category. Thus, earning a spot to race in the 12th Club Crew World Championships in the spring of 2012.

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