Metro Athletic Dragons

Two year ago, the pandemic rocked the dragon boat community and festivals came to a tumultuous halt. Now here we are, toe to toe, teeth clenched, ready for the adrenaline high of race-day 😤🔥. Thank you to our dragonboat brothers and sisters for fueling us with POWER 💥and ENERGY⚡ at . We took home not one, not two, but three 🥈 from our open and mixed boats, an attestation of our tenacity and triumph. Veterans and first-timers alike, together we conquered. Congratulations to all our paddlers on this heck of a weekend! A toast 🍻 to triple plaques.
Guess how many t’s are in this post and maybe I’ll tell you how long I spent writing this. 🤪

     

After a year on hiatus, MAD returns to take on Mercer . Faces change, friendships evolve, but our spirit of fierce athleticism and loyal camaraderie remains. We had a bit of race day jitters but we felt our groove on the boat, listened to each other, and re-focused ourselves to place first in our last heat of the day: 500m 🏅. For some of us, it was our first time at this festival; for many of us, it was our first race back since the pandemic rocked our dragonboat community. Shout out to , and for paddling with us. And we are so glad to see other representation from the East Coast show up too: , , , , , , , , , . Amazing race to all the teams, especially that 2k! 💯🚣‍♂️
Check us out in our video, we are in lane 2. Underdogs at the starts but we persevered and conquered the finish line at the end.🤙