Teams
Align Cycling
Community Team
Athenahealth
Community Team Racing with Periop Pirates.
Banchors Aweigh
Many banks have a long history. Northfield Savings Bank has something even more powerful. From the day of our founding in 1867 and continuing to today, a constant and resilient thread of meeting and supporting Vermonters in the moment has defined us. This powerful legacy fuels our actions, shapes our character, and separates us from other banks and credit unions. We are proud to be Vermont’s largest local bank with 14 locations serving over 35,000 consumer and commercial customers. We are also one of Vermont’s few remaining mutual savings banks, owned by our depositors, not shareholders, and offering investment services through Northfield Investment Services. We are proud to participate in the Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival supporting Dragonheart Vermont and its partner, Sail Beyond Cancer VT
BCS Dragons United
Breast Cancer Team
Blazing Blades
M&T Properties Community Team
Century Dragon Boat Club
Century Dragon Boat Club is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. Our mission is to create a vibrant community centered around the exhilarating sport of dragon boating. We prioritize fostering a sense of family and camaraderie, ensuring that everyone feels included and welcomed. Through our commitment to support and empower each member, both socially and physically, we aim to cultivate an environment where friendships flourish and individuals thrive. With a focus on competitive spirit, we champion teamwork and the pursuit of excellence while preserving the traditions of the sport. Our club is a place where fun, challenge, and personal growth intersect, providing opportunities for community engagement, camaraderie, and collaborative learning, while working together towards a common goal.
CCS Sunbeams
Champlain Community Services envisions a community where everyone participates and everyone belongs. The strongest and healthiest communities recognize and value all members and resources. CCS works to forge strong partnerships with businesses, organizations, and neighbors to help realize that vision. And we encourage self-advocacy and deep engagement within the community for the individuals we serve.
Champlain College Making Waves
Racing with UB Stay Local Go Fast. We are a dynamic team of educationally focused, spirited paddlers. Champlain College has participated in this event regularly. It is an honor to be a part of this fun and very meaningful fundraiser to join in the effort to support those who previously or currently live life fully with cancer.
CHC Monsters
Community Team
Code Pink
Community Team
Collins Aerospace Boats of Glory
Aerospace gurus from United Technologies. If we can make aircrafts fly, you can only imagine what we can do in the water!
Community Bank Hakuna Ma Ta Tas
Our employees come from Vermont and New York and bring 100% enthusiasm as they paddle together at this year’s Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival. HaKuna MaTaTa means ‘worry free for the rest of your days’ and that’s our cancer free philosophy! Community Bank, N.A. is happy to help support cancer survivors in our community.
Dawgs on the Watah
Sport Team - Ohana New England
Dealer.com Coxswains
Community Team
DHVT Fun-raisers
Dragonheart members who are not paddling on another community team, but are fundraising for the Festival.
DHVT Sisters
Dragonheart breast cancer survivor members who are not paddling on another community team, but are fundraising for the Festival.
DragonFire
Sport Team: Hartford’s DragonFire team has been paddling on the Connecticut River for over 13 years. In fact, they’re the only original Hartford dragon boat team still in existence (how’s that for commitment!) They began as the “lunch bunch” crew, and since that time, have grown into quite an eclectic crew. Paddler ages range from mid-20s to earlier 80s (yes, you heard that right)! Although they began as a “mostly women” team, they’ve recruited some men over the years with a lot of heart (and a bit of muscle) to join them. While they love to paddle for fun, they always race to win. While DragonFire aspires to become Hartford’s “premier” team, with multiple boats racing at multiple levels in and outside of Hartford, for now, they are simply thrilled to be in Burlington and race on Lake Champlain.
Dream Weavers
This year the Dream Weavers honor Vermont’s woolly past, when sheep out-numbered people. The Dream Weavers team is a true community flock woven together from folks from Burlington’s Old North End, the Vermont Weavers Guild, the Burlington Bocce Club and additional friends each of us recruited. You could say Dream Weavers is an organically grown team, bound together by a common interest in being a source of hope for community members and giving back to fellow Vermonters. On top of that, we woolly ones have dreams of earning braaa-ging rights from our paddling, decorating, and fashion feats. Dream Weavers may be the fiercest, fluffiest paddling team to ever grace Lake Champlain! We won’t baaa-ck down in the face of competition and we’re not sheepish or baaa-shful, despite our woolly appearance and team theme.
Epic Wave Warriors
We're a crew of educators, analysts, clinical staff, and kin! We're not just making waves in the water, but also in the fight against cancer, supporting Sail Beyond Cancer Vermont. Here's to the joy of paddling for a purpose, where the only thing stronger than the current is the spirit of camaraderie, teamwork, and a great cause!
Fanny Pack
We’re back this year and ready for another day of fun and friendly competition! We have some returning paddlers and some new faces! We represent the Inpatient Rehab Center at UVM Medical Center where we are dedicated to helping people return to everyday life. We proudly support Dragonheart Vermont and its partner, Sail Beyond Cancer VT.
FCI - The Stars of Flooring
Community Team
Fire Breathing Lab Dragons
We are a bunch of lab rats from UVM Health Network Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. We are "out for blood", "streaking" over the racecourse, hoping to "slide" into a medal position, looking for "positive results"!
Freedom, Unity & Love Boat
The Freedom, Unity & Love Boat” is made up of Vermont Town Clerks and Treasurers and members and friends of the Mount Mansfield Unitarian Universalist Fellowship (MMUUF). Vermont Clerks take an oath to support the Constitution of the State of Vermont and of the United States, and are the record keepers at the heart of our communities, serving everyone equally, justly and respectfully. MMUUF members and friends heartily support that work and all other efforts to stand on the side of love. We are paddling together in memory of Dr. Joanna Weinstock, who was a member of MMUUF and paddled on the F&U Love Boat last year along with her family members. Her spirit and her memory are blessings for us all.
Harvard Engine 9
Sport Team
Jayavarman Rising
Sport Team
Lewis Creek Builders
Community Team Racing with Ro(W)tary. We can't wait to join the fun and fundraising for the Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival. Come see us splashing our way to the finish line on August 3rd! Last year we came close to victory in our bracket - finishing second place after having our championship race cancelled due to thunderstorms. We are looking forward to this year's paddle! We owe our tenacity to our team's ability to guide clients through the ups and downs of home renovation, and because we always get our projects to the finish line ;)! We recognize the value of the programs that Dragonheart Vermont and their 2025 partner, Sail Beyond Cancer VT, provide to patients and families in our community dealing with cancer and we want to support them with our best fundraising efforts too!
Mad River-Stowe Rugby
Sponsored by Acabay, our LCDBF shirt sponsor. Mad River/Stowe RFC is a men’s and women’s+ rugby club based in the quintessential New England town of Stowe, VT. The Men’s team was established in 1972, and has a newly founded Women’s+ team established in the fall of 2024. Over four decades, the club has competed in the US and Quebec and is currently competing in the New England Rugby Football Union (NERFU) 4th Division If you've played with us or against us you'll already know that while we leave it all on the field, "rugby" means much more than just a game to us. We take pride in hosting a good jolly-up at the pitch or with one of our local sponsors. Many players have joined our club over the other Vermont rugby options because we're the hardest working club and also offer the best camaraderie.
McSoley McCoy & Cancer Patient Support Foundation
Community Team
Motley Dragon Crew
Sport Team paddlers from various clubs
Periop Pirates
Racing with Athenahealth. We are a crew consisting of preoperative professionals hailing from the University of Vermont Medical Center. Most of the crew are first-timers to Dragonboat. The captain and her right hand skipper will be “braving the seas” the second time around. The atmosphere, comradery, and experience overall is amazing to be around and who doesn’t enjoy being out on a warm, sunny day on the lake?! Additionally, almost all of us have had a loved one, friend, patient, or acquaintance, or themselves who have been diagnosed with cancer. Supporting and fundraising for cancer support organizations are ways to give back to the community. Therefore, supporting this fundraiser is close to our hearts.
Phoenix Physical Therapy Power Up Pink
Community Team
Premier Breast Strokes
Premier Rehab and Healthcare at Burlington, is a nursing and rehabilitation center that offers a wide array of services to ensure our residents receive the medical care they need, the restorative therapy they require, and the support they deserve. We serve a wide range of patient and resident needs – from short-term rehab to traditional long-term care. Our staff are thrilled to be participating in our FIRST Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival! Paddle Strong, Paddle Together! You can't beat these dragons!
Pull Together
Captain Baki says: “I joined the First Congregational Church in Burlington in 2017 and summer of that year for the first time I was introduced to Dragonheart VT by Thea Knight, and she recruited me to paddle for the church team; PULL TOGETHER. I so much enjoyed the sport but much more than that I was touched by the mission of DHVT and support of BCS. My grandmother was a breast cancer survivor and so is my mother. So, I met with John Dyer and joined the family of DHVT .” Our church is passionate about investing in downtown Burlington, and sees the festival as a perfect way to support a good cause as well as our community all while having fun together. Our team, PULL TOGETHER FIRST CHURCH, has participated in the festival for several years. We've even won some trophies along the way! This year we are excited to include Lake Champlain Dragonboat Festival on a whole slate of waterfront activities! We are honored to be part of a community that supports this great cause, helping cancer survivors to live with hope and get the treatment they need.
Rhythm & Blues
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont’s Rhythm and Blues team will rock (but hopefully not roll!) through the waves to victory, paddling toward a healthier Vermont! Our goal is to make the competition sing the “blues” and help find a cure for breast cancer. Come race day, we’ll be paddlin’ with rhythm.
Ro(w)tary
Community Team Racing with Lewis Creek Builders. We are excited to join the fun and fundraising for the Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival. Come see a group of Rotarians splashing our way to the finish line on August 3rd! We are members of the Charlotte-Shelburne-Hinesburg Rotary Club ("CSH Rotary") and other Rotary Clubs in our region. If you would like to join our team, email Dan York at dyork@lodestar2.com . We welcome anyone who would like to participate with us. We recognize the value of the programs that Dragonheart Vermont and their 2025 partner, Sail Beyond Cancer VT, provide to patients and families in our community dealing with cancer and we want to support them with our best fundraising efforts too!
Sail Beyond Cancer Vermont--Pledge Partner
Sail Beyond Cancer Vermont is thrilled to be paddling in this year’s Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival! Our team is fueled by the same mission that guides our sails: to honor those challenged by cancer by harnessing the healing power of water, wind and now, paddles! We're participating in this powerful event to raise awareness and vital funds so we can continue offering meaningful moments of peace, joy, and connection out on the lake. With every stroke, we paddle in honor, in memory, and with deep gratitude. Our novice crew will bring spirit, energy and enthusiasm to the day.
Shelburne Athletic Club
Community Team
Silky Serpents
Community Team Racing with Team Quechee
Snap Fitness Warriors
The Dragon Boat Team Snap Fitness Warriors is made up of members from the community who attend our local gym, Snap Fitness Berlin. We are all dedicated, self-motivated, driven people who are so excited to be a part of this great cause! Many of us have never paddled before, but we are up for the challenge! See you all on the water!
Soaring Shamrocks
Back again for 2024, this compilation of friends, family, hockey and rugby connections, and our famous Shamrock breast cancer hockey tournament will try again to take home a trophy! The “soaring” part of our name is a tribute to ovarian cancer survivor Gabrielle who paddled on our original “Soaring” team. Our team is completely funded by the fundraising done by each of the individual paddlers on our team. We look forward to seeing you on the water!
Team Quechee
Community team Racing with Silky Serpents
Tenacious Turtles
Community Team
UB Stay Local Go Fast
Union Bank is more than just a bank. It’s a partner in your community’s success. Since 1891, we have been serving northern Vermont and northern New Hampshire with a full range of banking services, from residential lending to small business support. We are proud of our achievements, such as being an SBA Preferred Lender, a USDA Vermont Lender of the Year, and a VHFA Top Performer for six years in a row. We are also committed to giving back to our community through initiatives like the Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival, which we are joining for the third time this year. At Union Bank, we make banking easy and convenient for you.
UVM Rally Against Cancer
We are excited to join the fun and fundraising for the Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival. Come see us splashing our way to the finish line on August 3rd! Your sponsorship directly supports local cancer charities, including Sail Beyond Cancer VT and Dragonheart VT. Be part of a community-wide event that raises funds and awareness for cancer patients and their families. Includes members of the VHFA team.
UVMMC Make Waves for Wellness
UVMMC Make Waves for Wellness” has been the UVM Medical Center Employee Wellness team since 2018 and it is comprised of our employees and their families. Each year our team has become more and more dynamic and committed to the mission of Dragonheart Vermont. We’ve weathered the pandemic with you and have emerged stronger than ever. Employee Wellness encourages physical activity, comradery and a sense of community. We can’t wait to see everyone out on the water on August 6th- GO TEAM.
Vermont Heating & Ventilating (VHV)
Community Team
Vermont Mutual Premium Paddlers
Community Team
VGS
VGS is proud to return to the Lake Champlain Dragon Boat Festival for the first time since 2010! As an energy company rooted in Northwest Vermont, we’re committed to powering more than just homes and businesses, we’re here to energize and engage with our communities. We are honored to paddle alongside so many inspiring teams in support of Dragonheart Vermont and Sail Beyond Cancer VT. Our team of paddlers brings the same spirit of collaboration, resilience, and forward momentum to the water that we bring to our work every day.
VHFA
Community Team merged with UVM Rally Against Cancer
Wolfpack Racing Club
Sport Team: Wolfpack Racing Club (WRC) is a Boston dragon boat club team. The team’s mission is to build an inclusive and supportive community for individuals to make lasting connections, and to achieve fitness through competitive dragon boat racing. Members come from diverse backgrounds and work in various industries, but come together as one crew with a shared love for paddling.