Red Dragons Corporate Regatta - 2nd July

Congratulations to our fabulous Pink Snapdragons for winning Bronze at the Red Dragons Corporate Regatta last saturday!  
A few words from our coach about the day.....
"Congratulations to all the corporate regatta paddlers. What a fantastic result. Just to make the major final was a significant result and to run third against the more athletic and male dominated crews was awesome. I wished I was there to witness it, however I do have my spies and their comments were enough to fill me full of optimism for our future regattas with the National Breast Cancer regatta foremost in my mind.

Your boat captain Donna had this to say. “The team performed really well yesterday – it was great getting a medal for third place in the major final. The day reinforced to everyone what it is like to race as a crew with our fantastic camaraderie and support from other pinkies and bosom buddies such as Dani, Maz and Rhonda”.

A special thanks to Lyn Grigg for her role as Team Manager. Having someone there to take the pressure off the coach and boat captain pays dividends in the end. It must work, I wasn’t even needed!!!!.

Now the hard work starts. We have Tin Can Bay in 20 days time. Only 2 more Saturday trainings to fine tune our starts and race plans. Then we start on our training plan for the Nationals at Kawana in September.

Well done everyone”

Arthur

Go Pink Snapdragons!

Our new mascot Max

A beautiful day!

Boat Maintenance Day

Our beautiful pink Zonta boat is looking good as new again after a big day of cleaning recently.  It was a lot of hard work but worth it for the great results!  As usual there was much laughter in between scrubbing and washing making the day go quicker and the hot chips from Del and Marla were greatly appreciated on the cold day!

National Titles - Canberra April 2011

Congratulations to our sister team the Redcliffe Red Dragons for their fantastic effort at the National Titles coming home with a bronze medal in the Club v Club 10s crew 200 metre event.  A few members also competed in the State v State competition and won Gold in the Grandmasters Women, Silver in the Grandmasters Men and Gold in the Great Grand Masters.

Several of our own Pink Snapdragons members competed as "Reds" also so a HUGE congratulations to Lyn Stainlay (Gold in Grandmasters Women),  Lyn Grigg (Bronze in 10s Crew 200m) and of course our "Elite Athelete" and super coach Arthur Heales (Gold in Great Grand Masters).

It was a fantastic weekend and beautiful venue, whether we won or lost a great time was had by all!

Lyn Stainlay & Lyn Grigg - Medal Winners!!

 

Chinese New Year Sydney - 12 & 13 February 2011

Wow! what a fantastic weekend just gone.  Congratulations Snapdragons on 4th in the Major Final!!!


The team headed down to Sydney for the Chinese New Year regatta at Darling Harbour last weekend and as usual took over the town!  A few of us arrived early on the Friday and met up for happy hour and then headed down to Chinatown for dinner, a definate highlight of the weekend. Watching the fantastic lion dancers from the top windows of the restaurant and then having them come up to our tables for good luck made the night.  I don't think the poor waiters knew what hit them when we arrived!! ;-)


Saturday we were let loose on the town, paddy's markets, city shopping and boat tours on the harbour the order of the day.  Dinner at the Dry Dock Hotel in Balmain finished the day off well.


Sunday was regatta day.  We arrived early to secure a spot under cover hoping to hide from the rain that was predicted, luckily it didn't arrive till after our races had finished (the god's smiling down on us I think!).  Always fun and exciting paddling on Darling Harbour.  Pretty thrilling for the spectators too wondering will the boats stop before the wall!  


Now to plan for next year!

Happy Hour at the Ibis :-)

Who are those masked pinkies??!!

The fantastic Lion Dancers
@ dinner  in Chinatown

Dinner at the Dry Dock in Balmain.

"Tough Tatts"  maybe they'll give us "dragon power"!!

Pow Wow time.  

Go Girls!

Flowers on the Water Ceremony

Pan Pacific Masters Games - NOV 12-13th 2010

Pinkies get some Bling!!!  Awesome news from the Pan Pacific Games.  Pink Snapdragons win Bronze in the 500m race on Friday and backup on Saturday to win Bronze again in the 200m.  Fantastic effort ladies!  And of course a big thanks to the ladies from Townsville, June, Cheryl and Gail who joined our team for the event, Deb Matthews from Sunshine Coast for drumming and the many ladies from other teams who jumped in at the last minute to fill our boat.

I think the huge smiles on everyones faces say it all......