Team Website

Our team has a fabulous website created by Jane at Red Pebble Web Design. Check it out:
http://www.wikiwikiwahine.org/

Wikiwiki Wahine 200m - National Dragon Boat Championships

Competitions

Wikiwiki Wahine will compete at the Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival on August 28th and the Oshkosh Dragon Boat Festival on September 25th. Come on down and support our team.
http://www.lakesuperiordragons.com/
http://www.uwosh.edu/fallfest/DragonboatFestival

NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

Wikiwiki Wahine ROCKS
the National Dragon Boat Championships!

Thee primary goal in starting Wikiwiki Wahine was to pull a group of positive women together, to give each other motivation to stay in shape and to have a goal. Our goals have been simply to do well at Dragon Boat Festivals in Grand Marais, MN and Oshkosh, WI, always striving to win of course but our competition was always experienced mixed teams. We really wanted some competition from strong, experienced Women's teams. Our coach, Ron Deters looked at our times and those of the top Club Crew teams in the Nation and felt we would have a chance to do well at the National level. We decided to go to the National Club Crew Championships last year and the off season training began. We hit the water early with intense intervals and long, distance days in marathon racing canoes. We got in the Dragon Boat to practice three times to polish our race plan before heading to Chattanooga Tennessee.

Nationals was composed of three days of Dragon Boat racing. Several teams competed for the right to represent the USA at the World level in Hong Kong, China in 2012. Only one team in each division earned that right. Wikiwiki Wahine is honored to be able to represent the USA in China in the Premiere Women's Division!

Chattanooga experienced the hottest weekend of the summer with heat indexes of 110 degrees. This team from the Northland had some adjustments to make. Staying in the shade and remaining hydrated was a focus to keep healthy all weekend long. The human body is amazing though and clearly, we all fared well.

Day one was the 500, the pinnacle distance in Dragon Boat racing.
Wikiwiki Wahine powered it through the finish, winning all three heats, continuing to improve time throughout the day. WWW's first time was 2:13.44. Improvement came in the Semi Final heat with a time of 2:12.88. WWW's Final heat left fire on the water crossing the finish line at 2:07.34.

500 FINAL HEAT
1st Place: Wikiwiki Wahine 2:07.34
2nd Place: DB Charleston 2:16.69
3rd Place: Philadelphia Flying Phoenix 2:16.88
4th Place: Schuylkill Dragons 2:19.59

Day two was the 200m ... DASH! This race is a fabulous all out from beginning to end sprint. Wikiwiki swept the day taking three first place finishes once again.

200 FINAL HEAT
1st Place: Wikiwiki Wahine 00:52.969
2nd Place: Philadelphia Flying Phoenix 00:54.037
3rd Place: DB Charleston 00:56.372
4th Place: Schuylkill Dragons 00:58.291

Going into Day three, Wikiwiki Wahine knew they had the Championships wrapped up because of point totals. There was only one heat in the 1000m distance. WWW's Final Time in the 1000m was a respectable second, putting Wikiwiki Wahine on top in points by a large margin and giving the team the berth for the Club Crew World Championships in Hong Kong, China in 2012.

1000m
1st Place: Philadelphia Flying Phoenix 4:42.750
2nd Place: Wikiwiki Wahine 4:43.030
3rd Place: DB Charleston 4:43.910
4th Place: Schuylkill Dragons 4:49.690

A wide range of ages are represented on our team, from 15 to 71. The variety of women adds so much richness to our team. With Coach Ron Deters, our team includes: Julie Deters, Belissa Ho, Linda Cook, Ingrid Evavold, Leah Kurth, Mary Schumacher, Binner Rahn, Maren Hagen, Diane Anderson, Lori Boughton, Io Harberts, Emily Peterson, Andrea Radke, Christine Hansen, Clara Salveson, Lani Dalbacka, Krista Matison, Jane Reed, Laurie Anderson, Sue Wilmes, Peg Apka, Elizabeth Tressel, Kathy Brimeyer, Amy Larson, Dee Angradi, Amanda George and Ellen Law.

Wikiwiki Wahine will also compete this year at the Lake Superior Dragon Boat Festival and the Oshkosh Dragon Boat Festival. Many will also compete at the National Canoe and Kayak Championships in Peshtigo, WI.

Please plan to race regularly. EXCELLENT WORKOUTS abound. Go to:
http://www.uscanoe.com/EventsResultsRegions.cfm for races in our area.

Wikiwiki Wahine will race in Chattanooga, TN at the National Club Crew Championships and at the Oshkosh Dragon Boat Race and Festival in 2010. Paddles WAY UP!

You go, girls!