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\"Princess<\/p>\n

Deborah Boyd (Princess) got her start in dragon boating in 2004, when she was reluctantly recruited to race in the Colorado Dragon Boat Festival on a team led by Michael Boyd (later to become her husband).<\/p>\n

Deb has attended week-long dragon boat camps taught by world champion level coaches \/ paddlers in Florida and Canada for the past twelve years, and completed a Dragon Boat Canada Level I Recreational Coaching Certification course in 2012.<\/p>\n

Now Co-Captain and Assistant Coach of the Phantom Dragons, Deb (a\/k\/a Princess) has helped her team to successfully compete in out-of-state festivals in Las Vegas, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Montana and Tempe, Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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