Monday, March 30, 2009

Water Muhfuggers Win Medals in Tempe Arizona!!

Seven Muhfuggers/Space Dragons went to Tempe AZ this past weekend to paddle their asses off in the 6th annual AZDBA DragonBoat festival. Caesar, Deej, Jeremy, Charlie, Blanca, Tammy, and Brian performed well on the water and brought home hardware. Some highlights:

Both RED Team(Ceez, Deej, Brian, Charlie, Jeremy and Tammy) & BLUE (Blanca) qualified for the top division in the tournament, Mixed Division A (reserved for the top 12 of 32 boats in the competition).

Although paddle rookie, Blanca, did not medal this weekend, her contributions help elevate her Blue boat to compete against some of the big boys in the tournament. Her Blue boat met up with dragon boat giants San Diego and UC San Diego in the semi finals on Sunday. Although they were eliminated, it was an incredible feat that the Space Dragon's B-team boat paddled themselves into the top division and raced the best to try and get to the finals.

RED brings home hardware with a bronze medal w/ a 3rd place overall finish (behind mighty San Diego & blazing UCLA) in the 500m mixed division. They fought through the elimination round & edging out the head-turning Manitoba High School (Canada) in the finals.

After two straight 1st place finishes on Sat, the MEN finish 2nd place overall in the Open Division behind mighty San Diego. Our Muhfugger men left Tempe w/ the 2nd fastest 500m time of the weekend!!

The Geri-crew MASTERS (Over 40 old farts Ceez, Deej and Tammy) brought home 2nd place hardware after finishing just a few grey hairs behind great competitors DragonMax ( from northern California) in the Master's Final.

With a very close 4th place seeding after Sat, our LADIES were just edged out from participating in the Women's Final (reserved for the top 3 of 9) & guaranteed hardware. Good job ladies!!

After a 4th place finish in the 250m sprints, RED closed out the weekend right w/ a thrillingly close 2nd place overall finish for the silver behind mighty San Diego in the Guts & Glory 1000m race.

Congratulations water Muhfuggers for your success on the water.

If there are any announcements, accomplishments, news, gossip concerning we Muhfuggers. Please let me know so we can post it.

Ceez

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