The Annual Membership Meeting of the ADBA will be held via Zoom on Saturday, April 27th. Nominations are currently being accepted for two Officer positions and three At-Large Board positions. Additional information can be found on the flyer by clicking on this link.
Instructors Joann Fegley and Liisa Reimann have scheduled a new session of their Level 1 Dragon Boat Steering Course – Part A. This is a four-week online course covering theory, safety, boat commands, boat operation, and principles of racing. Self-paced modules are coupled with a Facebook community and live weekly coaching calls. Participants are expected to…
ATTENTION CCWC 2024 team managers who are sending crews and support personnel to the CCWC 2024 in Ravenna. In continuing the expansion on the important education of our athletes and support personnel the IDBF has made it a mandatory requirement for CCWC athletes and all coaches to complete or have completed an Anti-Doping course before being…
The USDBF has announced that it is working with Dragon Boat Canada to host the first ever CanAmerican Championships at the Welland International Flatwater Center in Welland, Ontario, Canada. This event is billed to be the most competitive, fair and exciting racing on the continent in 2024! At this event the US teams will race…
The IDBF Club Crew World Championships were held beginning on Tuesday, July 19th, 2022. This is the 13th year that the International Dragon Boat Federation has held the Club Crew World Championships and in 2022 they were held in Sarasota, Florida. You can view a YouTube archive of each day’s racing by going to this…
It is with sadness we must report that Jane Frost, International Breast Cancer Paddlers’ Commission (IBCPC) Founding President died in hospital in Vancouver BC Canada on June 12, 2022. Jane was a visionary and activist for the past twenty seven years as an original member of Abreast In A Boat the world’s first breast…
Paddlers from around the Midwest recently attended a paddling camp held in Florida.
The International Dragon Boat Federation (IDBF) has announced that it has moved it’s website to a new domain name. See the Media Release below:
The United States Dragon Boat Federation and its communities have lost a prominent member of our dragon boat community, Dr. Hype Mattingly-Jordan on Saturday, August 18, 2018. Dr. Mattingly served the USDBF as the Premier Women’s coach in 2015, and paddled many years as a Team USA member. Hype’s passion for the sport at all…
Congratulations to the participants of the ADBA Steering Clinic that was held in the Chicagoland area over the weekend of May 19th and 20th. A big thank you to John McDermott; Coach for Greater Chicago Dragon Boat Club and a Coach for Team USA, for conducting the training. It’s great to see that…
