Team SOAR - Race Events

Wasabi Team SOAR races in local, national and international dragon boat events. Dragonboating is a growing water sport around the world. Not only the number of teams participating at the events is increasing, so has the skill level.

SOAR competes in cancer survivors as well as women's division races. Competition amongst the teams is fierce. While we support each other as cancer survivors, we are also athletes who train and compete for the gold!

Members select the level of participation that best fits their work and home life. But once you go to a race, feel the energy, and experience the competition -- you will be hooked.

SOAR on KPTV-12

KPTV did a video highlight of Dragonboats on September 9, 2010 which featured team SOAR. Here are three of those video segments courtesy of KPTV-12.

2010 Portland Dragon Boat races

Soar competed in the Portland Dragon Boat races on September 12, 2010. Here are videos of the Cancer race and Heat 67.

Pool Practice

We augment our rigorous river practice with warm indoor pool practice. This indoor session enables refinement of paddling technique in a controlled setting.

2011 Arizona Dragonboat Festival

We competed in the 8th annual Dragonboat Festival in Tempe on March 26th and 27th. Here are videos of our Woman's Survival Final and our Woman's B Division final. We brought home Gold medals from each race!

2011 Kent Cornucopia Days Festival

We competed at the dragon boat races at the 2011 Kent Cornucopia Days on July 9th. Here are videos of our Woman's Cancer Race (Gold medal) and our Woman's B Division semi-final with a great come-from-behind first place finish.