Board
of Directors 2007-2008
Other Abreast In A Boat Contacts
Donations
Related Links
Breast Cancer Paddlers Around the World
Australia
Canada
China
Czech
Republic
England
Italy
Malaysia
New Zealand
Singapore
South
Africa
United States
Cancer Dragon Boat Teams (all cancers)
Board of Directors
Other
Abreast In A Boat Contacts
Donations
If you wish to make a tax-deductible donation
to Abreast In A Boat Society, please send to the following address
and include your name and address so we can send you a receipt.
Abreast In A Boat Society,
c/o Judith Stainsby,
#29-900 Clarke Road,
Port Moody, BC,
Canada,
V3H 1L5
Related
Links
Breast Cancer:
Lymphedema:
Lymphovenous
Canada
National Lymphedema
Network
Clinical practice guidelines on lymphedema
are found in the Jan 23, 2001 back issue of:
Canadian Medical Association Journal
Articles about the medical history of Abreast
In A Boat in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
August
1998 (full article in pdf)| October
1996 (abstract only)
Dragon Boating:
International
Dragon Boat Federation (IDBF)
Alcan
Dragon Boat Festival (Vancouver)
Toronto Dragon
Boat Festival
Polish
Dragon Boat Federation
Worldwide
Dragon Boat Calendar
Dragon
Boat Canada
False Creek Racing
Canoe Club
Dragon
Boat World online magazine
Breast
Cancer Paddlers Around the World
If you know of teams that aren't listed
here, or want to add to or correct this information, please contact
Heather Trenholm, teamcontact@abreastinaboat.com
Australia
Dragons
Abreast Australia
Dragons Abreast Australia consists of 34
member groups. We are not competitive teams and are founded on
the principles of participation, inclusiveness, support, promotion
and awareness of breast cancer.
Website: www.dragonsabreast.com.au
Webmaster: Jan Skorich - webmaster@dragonsabreast.com.au
National Coordinator: Michelle
Hanton
You may contact any of the following groups via the National
Coordinator: nationalcoordinator@dragonsabreast.com.au
Australian
Capital Territory and Region
Dragons
Abreast - ACT & Region
First dragon
boat season: 2001
New
South Wales
Bidgee
Boobs - Wagga Wagga
First
dragon boat season: 2007
Clarence
Valley Dragons Abreast
First dragon boat season: 2005
Dragons
Abreast - Central Coast
First dragon boat season: 2001
Flamin'
Dragons Abreast - Port Macquarie
First dragon boat season: 2005
Dragons
Abreast - Illawarra
First dragon boat season: 2002
Dragons
Abreast - Newcastle & Hunter
First dragon boat season: 2000
Rainbow
Dragons Abreast - Northern
First dragon boat season: 2005
Pendragons
Abreast - Penrith
First dragon boat season: 2005
Pittwater
Pinks - Northern Beaches
First dragon boat season: 2006
Outback
Dragons Abreast - Dubbo
First dragon boat season: 2005
Sapphire
Water Dragons Abreast - Merimba
First dragon boat season: 2005
Dragons
Abreast - Sydney (Pink Passion)
First dragon boat season: 2003
Northern
Territory
Dragons
Abreast - Northern Territory
First dragon boat season: 1998
Queensland
Dragons
Abreast - Gold Coast
First dragon boat season: 2005
Dragons
Abreast - Mackay
First dragon boat season: 2005
Missabittatitti
- Brisbane
First dragon boat season:
2005
Dragons
Abreast - Queensland
First dragon boat season: 2001
Pink
Snapdragons, Dragons Abreast - Redcliffe
First dragon boat season: 2005
Sunshine
Coast - Dragons Abreast
First dragon boat season:
2005
Dragons
Abreast - St George
First dragon boat season:
2006
Dragons
Abreast - Townsville
First dragon boat season:
2004
South Australia
Dragons Abreast
- Port Lincoln
First dragon boat season:
2004
Warriors
Abreast - Adelaide
First dragon boat season:
2004
Western Australia
Dragons Abreast
Amazons - Perth
First dragon boat season: 2001
Crewsader
Abreast - Bunbury
First dragon boat season: 2001
Victoria
“Bravehearts”
Dragons Abreast - Albury/Wodonga
First dragon boat season:
2005
Dragons
Abreast - Ballarat, Victoria
First dragon boat season:
2006
Dragons
Abreast - Geelong
First dragon boat season:
2005
Dragons
Abreast - Melbourne
First dragon boat season:
2002
Dragons
Abreast - Peninsula Dragon Fly
First dragon boat season:
2007
Dragons
Abreast - Victoria, Bendigo Team
First dragon boat season:
2003
Tasmania
Dragons
Abreast - North West Tasmania
First dragon boat season:
2005
Dragons
Abreast - Tasmania
First dragon boat season:
2003
Adelaide
Survivors Abreast
First dragon boat season: 2004
E-mail: Lynn Hill, LynnHl8@aol.com
South
Australia Dragons Abreast "Pink Paddlers"
First dragon boat season: 2001
Our sports team for supporters and survivors is called "SA
Vipers".
E-mail: Judi
Sweatman, terier1@optusnet.com.au
Canada
Alberta
Abreast of 'bridge,
Lethbridge, Alberta
First dragon boat season: 2000
E-mail: Pat Mackintosh, doug.mack@shaw.ca
Breast Friends,
Edmonton, Alberta
First dragon boat season: 1999
E-mails: Gill Priestley, gillpriestley@telus.net
Website: www.cbcn.ca/breastfriends
Sistership,
Calgary, Alberta.
First dragon boat season: 1998
E-mail: Heather Webber, hwebber@shaw.ca
British Columbia
Abreast In A Boat,
Vancouver, British Columbia
First dragon boat season: 1996
E-mail: Heather Trenholm, teamcontact@abreastinaboat.com
Website: www.abreastinaboat.com
Abreast In The Rockies,
Cranbrook, British Columbia
First dragon boat season: 2006
E-mail: Sandy Zeznik, szeznik@shaw.ca
Abreast of Life,
Central Vancouver Island, British
Columbia
First dragon boat season: 1999
E-mail: Georgia Maclean can2@shaw.ca
Website: www.abreastoflifecvi.com
Angels Abreast,
Nanaimo, British Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2001
E-mail: angelsabreast@hotmail.com
Website: www.angels-abreast.ca
Buoyant Buddies,
Vernon, British Columbia
First dragon boat season: 2004
E-mail: Joanne Taylor, taylorsd40@hotmail.com
Bustn' Loose,
Kelowna, British Columbia
First dragon boat season: 1999
E-mail: Judy, bustnloose@hotmail.com
Dragon
Divas, Duncan, British Columbia
First dragon boat season: 2004
E-mail: info@dragondivas.ca
Website: www.dragondivas.ca
Friends
Abreast, Shuswap, British Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2002
E-mail: Donna Hazell, comhaven@jetstream.net
Hope
Afloat - Canada, Comox, British Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2002
E-mail: mpetersen@shaw.ca
Website: www.hopeafloatcanada.ca
Island
Breaststrokers, Victoria, British Columbia
First dragon boat season: 1997
E-mail: Etiennette Soulodre, etiennette.soulodre@tvcs.ca
Website: www.islandbreaststrokers.com
Kootenay
Rhythm Dragons, Nelson, British Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2004
E-mail: Mary Walters, mbwalters@telus.net
Website: www.krd.kics.bc.ca
Kootenay
Robusters, Trail, British Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2001
E-mail: Sheana Green (Manager), sheanagreen@telus.net
Website: www.kootenayrobusters.org
NorthBreast
Passage, Prince George, British
Columbia
First dragon boat season: 2000
E-mail: Becky Girard, bgirard@telus.ca
North
Shore Dragon Busters, North Shore, Vancouver, British
Columbia
First dragon boat season: 2008
E-mail: communication@dragonbusters.ca
Website: www.dragonbusters.ca
See a photo
of the Dragon Busters.
Paddling
for Life, Powell River, British
Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2002
E-mail: harpstrings@shaw.ca
Pink
Panthers, Nanaimo,
British Columbia
First dragon boat
season: 2006
E-mail:
nixon@malu.bc.ca
Pink
Piston Paddlers, Shuswap, British Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2006
E-mail: Cynde Russell, pinkpistonpaddlers@gmail.com
Website: www.pinkpistonpaddlers.ca
Rainbow
Warriors, Prince Rupert, British Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2004
E-mail: lorimcw@citytel.net
River
Spirit, Campbell River, British Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2003
E-mail: Ingrid Thomas, thominbc@hotmail.com
Website: www.riverspirit.ca
Spirit
Abreast, Chilliwack, British Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2002
E-mail: perrinoyd@telus.net
Website: www.spiritabreast.com
Sunshine
Dragons Abreast, Sechelt, British Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2005
E-mail: Sally Haugen shaugen@dccnet.com
Survivorship,
South Okanagan, British Columbia.
First dragon boat season: 2000
E-mail: Sharon DeGelder, survivorship@shaw.ca
Website: www.survivorshipteam.org
Manitoba
Chemo
Savvy, Winnipeg, Manitoba
First dragon boat season: 1998
E-mail: Sherry Wallis, chemosvy@mts.net
Website: www.chemosavvy.ca
Waves
of Hope, Brandon, Manitoba
First dragon boat season: 1999
E-mail: Arlene Woods, ANCRUM@mb.sympatico.ca
and Diane Harrington, dianeh@mts.net
Website: www.wavesofhope.ca
New Brunswick
Breasts
Ahoy, Saint John, New Brunswick
First dragon boat season: 2003
E-mail: Breasts Ahoy, generalInfo@breastsahoy.abcn.ca
Website: breastsahoy.abcn.ca/
'tit
Bateau, Southeast New Brunswick
First dragon boat season: 2003
E-mail: Karen Baird, info@titbateau.ca
Website: www.titbateau.ca
Newfoundland
Avalon
Dragon Boat Team
First dragon boat season: 2006
E-mail: avalondragonboating@gmail.com
Website: www.avalondragonboating.com
Nova Scotia
Abreast
a River, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
First dragon boat season: 1999
E-mail: Susan Hartley, sc.hartley@ns.sympatico.ca
Bosom
Buddies, a Nova Scotia provincial team
First dragon boat season: 1999
E-mail: Marylin Hergett, mjh@ns.sympatico.ca
Website: www.bosombuddies.ca
Cape
Breastoners, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia
First dragon boat season: 2001
E-mail: Cora Shebib, President, lcshebib@syd.eastlink.ca
Ontario
A Breast
Or Knot, Windsor,
Ontario
First dragon boat season: 2004
E-mail: Lyn Turner, abreastorknot@hotmail.com
Website: www.abreastorknot.org
Breast
Buddies, Chatham, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 2001
E-mail:
Barbara Toye, Team Manager, barbaratoye@sympatico.ca
Karen Minard, Team Captain, arminard@kent.net
Busting
Out, Ottawa, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 1998
E-mail: Karen Whillans, Team Captain
Karen.Whillans@Rogers.com
Website: www.bustingout.ca
Canadians
Abreast - Messengers of
Hope, National Team
First dragon boat season: 2002
E-mail: Darlene Prager, mancany@ptbo.igs.net
Website: http://www.canadiansabreast.abcn.ca
Chestmates,
Kingston, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 2000
E-mail: Suzanne Bodner, bodnersuz@primus.ca
Dragon
Flies, Lindsay, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 2003
E-mail: info@thedragonflies.org
Website: www.thedragonflies.org
Dragons
Abreast, Toronto, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 1998
E-mail: Doreen Davenport, doreend01@aol.com
Website:
www.dragonsabreast.org
Dragons
of Hope, Thunder Bay, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 1999
E-mail: slecky53@hotmail.com
Guelph
Breaststrokes, Guelph, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 1999
E-mail: mvisserkerr@rogers.com
Knot
A Breast, Hamilton, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 1998
E-mail: Helen Shearer, bhshearer@sympatico.ca
Kupsized,
Stratford, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 2000
E-mail: Wendy Hunter Beintema,beintema@strat.net
Pink
Dragons, Belleville/Trenton, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 2003 (?)
E-mail: Beth Wylie, wylieb@hotmail.com
Pink
Sensations, Pickering, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 2004
E-mail: info@pinksensations.com
Website: www.pinksensations.com
Ribbons
of Hope, Barrie, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 2003
E-mail: Susan Macallum barriesribbonsofhope@yahoo.ca
Rowbust,
London, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 2000
E-mail: Penny Dobbs or Linda Kuska, rowbust_dragonboat_racing_team@hotmail.com
Survivor
Thrivers, Cobourg, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 1999
E-mail: Edith Carr, edicar@sympatico.ca
Survivors
Abreast, Peterborough, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 2000
E-mail: Darlene Prager, macany
@ptbo.igs.net
Website: www.survivorsabreast.com
Warriors
of Hope, North Bay, Ontario
First dragon boat season: 2000
E-mail: Margaret Kervin, appletreekitchens@sympatico.ca
Website: WarriorsOfHope.com
Wonder Broads, Windsor, Ontario
First dragon boat festival: 2003
E-mail: Peggy Hurley, phurley@netcom.ca
Quebec
Two
Abreast, or Côte-à-Côte, Montreal,
Quebec
First dragon boat season: 1998
E-mail: Donna Tremblay, dtremblay@ca.inter.net
Website: www.geocities.com/colosseum/Park/9839/
Vise-à-Vie,
Quebec City, Quebec
(a little play on words, but means focus on life)
First dragon boat season: 2004
E-mail: Jocelyne Boutet, jobouz@sympatico.ca
Website: www.viseavie.com
West
Island Dragons, Pointe Claire, Quebec
( or "Les Dragons de l'ouest-de-l'ile" )
First dragon boat season: 2003
E-mail: Manager, June Pedersen rpedersen@sympatico.ca
Saskatchewan
Busting
with Energy, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
First dragon boat season: 1999
E-mail: Sandra Messett, info@bustingwithenergy.com
Website: http://www.bustingwithenergy.com/
China
Shanghai
Breast Cancer DragonBoat Team, Shanghai
First dragon boat season: 2004
(no contact yet)
Czech
Republic
DRACICE,
Prague, Czech Republic (1st Czech Oncology Dragon Boat Team)
First dragon boat season: 2007
Email: dracice@dracice.org
Website: www.dracice.org
England
Paddlers
For Life, Lake Windermere - Lake District
First dragon boat season: 2008
Email: Contact Sue Cogley via the team web site (below)
Website: www.paddlersforlife.co.uk
Pink
Champagne Dragon Boat Team, Bournemouth, England
First dragon boat season: 2008
Contact: Mary Milne in Bournemouth via the website (see below)
Website: www.pinkchampagne.org.uk
See a photo
of the Pink Champagne Dragon Boat Team
Pool
of Life, Liverpool
First dragon boat season: 2004
Email: Chair person - Wendy De-Corte W.DE-CORTE@sky.com
Read AIAB-member Jenny Yule's article
about Pool of Life
Website: www.pooloflife.net
Worcester Busters, Worcester
First dragon boat season: 2007
Email: Sue Shackleton, sueshackers@live.co.uk
See a photo
of the Worcester Busters.
Italy
Florence
Dragon Lady, Florence
First dragon boat season: 2006
Contact: Elisabetta Bernardini, info@legatumorifirenze.it
Pink
Butterfly, Rome
First dragon boat season: 2004
Website: www.butterflydragonboat.com
Contact: Orlanda Cappelli
Malaysia
Pink
Challengers, State of Selangor, Malaysia
First dragon boat season: 2005
E-mail: Barbara Khoo, bcwa@tm.net.my
New Zealand
Abreast
of Life, Christchurch, New Zealand
First dragon boat season: 2000
E-mail: Elspeth McCutcheon, f.emccutchn@xtra.co.nz
and culhanepetrie@slingshot.co.nz
Website: www.abreastoflife.org.nz
Boobops, Omokoroa, Bay of
Plenty, New Zealand
First dragon boat season: 2004
E-mail: Pam Dazeley, daze.wool@xnet.co.nz
Busting
with Life, Auckland, New Zealand
First dragon boat season: 1999
E-mail: Lynne Mee, lynnemee@ihug.co.nz
and Marcia Fraser, frasermi@hotmail.com
Website:
www.bustingwithlife.org.nz
Pink
Dragons, Auckland, New Zealand
First dragon boat season: 2005
E-mail: Graeme and Michelle Rountree pinkdragons@ihug.co.nz
Waikato
Treasure Chests, The Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
First dragon boat season: 2004
E-mail: Raewyn Calvert, President, rian.calvert@xtra.co.nz
Rosa Peake,
Vice President, rosajp@xtra.co.nz
Singapore
Paddlers
in the Pink
First dragon boat season: 2003
E-mail: Angelina Ong, angelina@bcf.org.sg
Hope in a Boat
First dragon boat season: 2003
E-mail: Angelina Ong, angelina@bcf.org.sg
South
Africa
Amabele
Belles of Cape Town
First dragon boat season: 2006
E-mail: Pam Newby, pam@dragonboat.org.za
Website: http://www.dragonboat.org.za/bcs-sa.html
United States
California
Central
Coast Survive Oars, Morro Bay, California
First dragon boat season: 2007
Website: www.surviveoars.org
Los
Angeles Pink Dragons, Los Angeles, California
First dragon boat season: 2003
Email: Diane McCabe, mccabedf@aol.com
Orange
Roughys, Orange County, California
"we're so rough we beat cancer"
First dragon boat season: 2004
Email: Regina Savage, Resavag@aol.com
San
Diego DragonBoat Breast Cancer Team, San Diego, California
First dragon boat season: 2004
Location: San Diego Bay at the Youth Facility, Fiesta Island.
Email: Cheance Adair, adair@sandiego.edu
Florida
Pink
Dragon Ladies, Tampa, Florida
First dragon boat season: 2005
Email: Joan Busenbarrick, pinkdragonladies@hotmail.com
Website: www.pinkdragonladies.blogspot.com
Georgia
Dragon
Boat Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
First dragon boat season: 2004
Email: Beverly Booth, bb1249@bellsouth.net
Website: www.DragonBoatAtlanta.org
Indiana
The Indy SurvivOars, Indianapolis
First dragon boat season: 2007
Email: Lisa Heiden Peters, peters413@insightbb.com
Louisiana
Cajun
Invasion
First dragon boat season:
November 2005
Location: 329
Lippi Blvd., Lafayette, Louisiana, 70508, USA
Email: Neppie
or Freddy Trahan, neppie@earthlink.net
New Jersey
Hope
Floats, Camden, South Jersey, NJ
First dragon boat season: 2006
Email: riversirens@comcast.net
Machestic
Dragons, Mercer County, NJ
First dragon boat season: 2002
E-mail: Baru Saul, md-contact@yahoogroups.com
Website: www.machesticdragons.org
Princeton
Warriors USA, Princeton, NJ
First dragon boat season: 2002
Email: Jeanie Haas, princetondragoneer@verizon.net
Team
SOS (Save Our Sisters), Lake Parisppany, Newark,
NJ
First dragon boat season: 2008
Website: www.teamsosnj.com
New York
The
Hope Chest, Buffalo, New York
First dragon boat season: 2000
E-mail: Laurie Dooley, LD1128@aol.com
Website: www.hopechestbuffalo.com
Michigan
The Detroit
Karmanos Life Preservers, Detroit
First dragon boat season: 2006
Email: Helen, hdries@cogeco.ca
Ohio
The Dragon Dream Team, Craftsmen
Park, Akron
First dragon boat season: 2007
Email: Jessica Mader, Jessica@DragonDreamTeam.org
Website: www.dragondreamteam.org
Oregon
Pink
Phoenix, Portland, Oregon
First dragon boat season: 1997
E-mail: Lois Meddock loisinthepink@comcast.net
Wasabi
Team SOAR, Portland, Oregon
(SOAR is an acronym for Survivors On A River)
First dragon boat season: 2003
E-mail: Joan Cavanagh, jcavanagh@kelrun.com
Pennsylvania
Against
The Wind, Philadelphia, PA
First dragon boat season: 2001
Email: Susan Papada, susan.papada@comcast.net
Website: www.philadelphiaflyingphoenix.org
Hope
Afloat, Delaware Valley, Philadelphia, PA
First dragon boat season: 2001
Email: Shelly Keller, subbub@navpoint.com
Website: www.geocities.com/hopeafloatusa
Texas
Pink Phurree BCS Dragon Boat Team,
Houston,
Texas
First Dragon Boat Season: 2005 (evolving from Draggin' Queens)
Email: Frances Arzu, ogaria@msn.com
Website:
www.pinkphurree.org
Vermont
Dragonheart Vermont, Vermont
First Dragon Boat Season: 2004
Email: Linda Dyer, ldyer@gmavt.net
Website: www.dragonheartvermont.org
Green
Mountain Dragon Boat Team,
Vermont
First dragon boat season: 2003
Email: Karen Pellicore, kismet2001us@yahoo.com
Wisconsin
Pink Paddling Power, Racine
First dragon boat season: 2006
Email: Kathy, dsponholtz@wi.com
Cancer
Dragon Boat Teams ("all cancers"
and "survivors & supporters")
CANADA
British Columbia
BraveHearts
Coed Dragon Boat Team, Campbell
River
First Dragon Boat Season: 2007
Email: Nancy Bryson, nancybryson@hotmail.com
Website: Bravehearts
Ladies
of the Lake, Port Alberni
First Dragon Boat Season: 2004
Email: Sherry Workman, sworkman@telus.net
UNITED STATES
South Carolina
Dragon
Boat Charleston,
Charleston, South Carolina
First dragon boat season: 2003
Email: Sterling Hannah, hannahs@musc.edu
Washington
Team Survivor Northwest,
Seattle, Washington
Email: Chantelle and Claude Dykstra at cdykstra@comcast.net
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