Here is the tentative race schedule for the Phantoms crew for the 2024 Season:
- Mar 23-24 Arizona Dragon Boat Festival
- Jul 27-28 Colorado Dragon Boat Festival
- Sep 22 Riverdale Regatta Festival
- Sep 28 Kansas City Dragon Boat Festival
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Phantom Dragons – Winter Dragon Boat Pool Simulator Practice
From November through March, our Phantoms crew trains at the Wheat Ridge Recreation Center, using a custom-designed dragon boat pool simulator. This training allows us to travel to Tempe each year in March to compete in the Arizona Dragon Boat Festival on equal footing with west coast crews that can paddle on open water year-around.
Unfortunately, the 2023 Arizona Dragon Boat Festival suffered a last-minute cancellation due to flood/debris conditions at Tempe Town Lake. Still, our winter training left us well-prepared for the summer dragon boat season!
Photos
Additional photos and video clips from our pool training sessions can be seen at this link:
Phantoms Dragon Boat Pool Simulator Practices
Phantoms Win Bronze in 2K22 Portland Dragon Boat Festival
Phantoms – Bronze Medalists in 2022 Portland Dragon Boat Festival!!!
The Phantom Dragons / Pink Phantoms crew captured Bronze Medals in the 500-Meter Mixed-C Division at the 2022 Portland Dragon Boat Festival. Several of our paddlers filled open slots on Women’s and BCS crews, and brought home additional hardware! Congrats to all for a great performance!
Results and Photos
This was our first trip to Portland, and it proved to be a very fun and competitive event. Check out the full Race Results
Additional photos of the event are posted here:
Phantoms Coach Featured in Sports Profile
Phantoms Coach/Captain Michael J Boyd is the subject of a feature article in the latest edition of Wheat Ridge Living magazine. Check it out!
Phantoms Compete in 2K22 Arizona Dragon Boat Festival
Congratulations to the Phantoms crew for another strong showing at this year’s Arizona Dragon Boat Festival, held March 26-27, 2K22. Many thanks to the CODA and LA Harbor Dragons paddlers who teamed up w/ us to compete in this event, and special thanks to Connie Flesuras for drumming for us!
A huge congratulations to our Pink Phantoms paddlers who raced w/ the Central Coast SurviveOars crew, winning Gold Medals in the BCS Division. A generous grant from the Cancer League of Colorado helped make participation in this event possible for our BCS paddlers.
Results and Photos
As always, this year’s Arizona Festival was a very competitive event. Check out the full Race Results
Additional photos of the event are posted here:
Matt Norfleet selected to Team USA Crews
Matt Norfleet was recently selected to the Team USA Senior A Open and Mixed crews that would have competed in the Dragon Boat World Championships in Hong Kong this past November, had the event not been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Being named to a Team USA crew is an awesome achievement! Congratulations Matt!
