About Us

Busting with Energy™ is a dragon boat team made up entirely of breast cancer survivors. Women of all ages - mothers, grandmothers, sisters, daughters and friends. Our team is committed to promoting a healthy lifestyle through dragon boat racing and to providing women with reassurance that there is life after breast cancer...and it can be active, challenging and fun.

We start circuit training at Bourassa and Associates early in the year to build upper body strength and overall conditioning. River practice in the dragon boat begins by late April or early May depending on river conditions. We practice rain or shine, with our coach Nathan Evans, twice per week. Nathan has been known to tie a tire to the boat for us to drag along to build strength!

2007 Races:

July 28^th
FMG Saskatoon Dragon Boat Festival

August 24^th to the 26^th
Calgary Dragonboat Festival

2006 Races:

July 29^th
FMG Saskatoon Dragon Boat Festival:  Busting with Energy™ placed 2^nd in the All-Female Division!

September 2^nd
SaskEnergy Regina Dragonboat Festival:  Busting with Energy™ took 2^nd place in all heats, and in the final race finished 4^th out of 9 teams.

Past Races:

June 2005: Busting with Energy™, thanks to our sponsors and supporters, attended the 10 Years Abreast celebration in Vancouver. The Vancouver team "Abreast in a Boat" hosted this weekend of dragon boat races with 62 teams from all over the world to celebrate the 10 years that breast cancer survivors have been dragon boating. We were excited to meet so many women just like us from all over the world. We raced against teams from Australia, New Zealand, Poland, Rome, and numerous teams from the United States and Canada. What a weekend! We will never forget the memories of that incredible weekend with over 1500 women in pink.

July 2004: Busting with Energy™ hosted "Breast Friends" from Edmonton and "Sistership" from Calgary at our local dragon boat festival.