Thompson's Boathouse Center
Georgetown/Kennedy Center Waterfront
2900 Virginia Avenue, Washington DC

Saturday - Sunday, 17 - 18 May 2008

TEAM REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.

REGISTRATION FEES:

Please submit your registration fess ASAP. Any team that we do not receive a payment from by May 10, 2008 will be automatically disqualified from the race. If you are mailing a check, it MUST be postmarked by Wednesday, May 7, 2008.

Make checks payable to: Chinese Women's League (CWL) - 2008 Dragonboat Festival
P.O. Box 2114, Bethesda, MD 20827

If your captain has not yet informed you, paddlers DO NOT have to register anymore via the online Paddler's Registration. Unfortunately the experiment did not go as well as we intended. Thank you for cooperation and patience.

Important Announcements:

Captains/Co-Captains/Team Managers: Please sign up for the Dragon Captains Listserv for important updates and information!!! Please read previous announcements if you are recently joining. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dragoncaptains/

DOWNLOAD TRAINING WAIVERS!!! Please have all training waivers completed and ready to be collected by the training staff when you arrive for your training session. Each participant must complete a waiver. The training staff will need to have one waiver from each participant which will cover all training sessions. You do not need to re-sign the waiver each time you go to training. Youth teams will need to complete an additional training agreement that will also be collected by the training staff. Please review the training policy on the festival website!

Message from A Special DC Dragon Boat Festival Partner

Breast Cancer Survivor (BCS) Teams

The breast cancer survivor community has taken a special interest in Dragon Boat. It has become a dynamic sport for breast cancer survivors of all ages, as part of a healthy recovery lifestyle. Dragon boat paddling enables each woman to increase her strength at her own pace, while enjoying the bonds of friendship and support of other survivors.

Last year, the Hope Afloat breast cancer survivor team from Philadelphia had paddlers ranging from their mid-30s to their 70’s. We are nurses, teachers, engineers, retirees, accountants, small business owners, comptrollers, programmers, waitresses, florists, administrators, journalists, and managers, the Hope Afloat Team says of themselves. On the face of it, we are your ‘average’ women. Yet, average is not a word that we use to describe ourselves. We are strong and confident, motivated, dedicated and positively focused.

GoPinkDC, the newly organized breast cancer survivor team in metropolitan Washington, DC, is recruiting new members to join their Festival Team (www.gopinkdc.com). GoPinkDC has extended a special Festival invitation to other BCS teams and a number are expected to participate in the 2008 Festival. A special pink carnation ceremony will involve the BCS Teams and Festival spectators to remember and honor those with breast cancer.