Gung Haggis dragon boat team starts practice this Sunday, March 27
Gung Haggis dragon boat team at
Rio Tinto Alcan Festival – a mix of veteran and novice paddlers that
proudly made it to Rec B medal finals!
We start paddling this Sunday – March 27th 11am
Dragon
Zone / South East False Creek Community Centre.
11am Sunday
6pm Wednesday
meet at Creekside Community Centre
Dragon Zone
for more information
contact coach Todd Wong
778-846-7090
email gunghaggis at yahoo.com
2010
was wonderful for the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team. We
started paddling in January then took a break for the Olympics. We
celebrated with a big Gung Haggis Fat Choy dinner at Floata where we
first met a Chinese lass born in Scotland, who came to join the dragon
boat team, starting the string of Irish, Yorkshire, French, Belgian and
Australian visitors to Canada who came to paddle and race with us.
Dragon
boat races found us first time in A Division at
Lotus Races with the Community Spirit Award, in Rec B at Rio Tinto
Alcan Festival with a silver medal in Senior B Race, Silver medal and
2nd overall at Richmond with 1st prize of free entry for 2011 in the
challenge race. We partnered with Spirit of Vancouver and went to Banff
for a silver medal in C Division. In Ft. Langley both teams were in
the A Final. Wow!
The Gung Haggis team for 2011 – It will be
incredible….
2011 is year 10, of the Gung Haggis Fat Choy dragon boat team, paddling
every year @ Alcan Races and beyond since 2002. It is also year 15 for a
team that started in 1997 under the name Celebration Team and for which
the Gung Haggis Fat Choy Robbie Burns Chinese New Year Dinner event was
created as a fundraiser for in 1999. This is the only team that has
twice won the Hon. David Lam Award for the team that best exemplifies
the multicultural spirit of the dragon boat festival (2001 & 2005)
Gung Haggis Fat Choy paddlers bite
their silver medals at Richmond Dragon Boat Festival – 2nd place
overall, and 1st in the steering challenge race.