Meet the Team Meet the Team
Marc
Member of Team USA
Title: Prresident / Captain / Head of Race Committee
Occupation: Geek
With Puff since: April, 2006
Originally from: Eastern Pennsylvania
Paddle: left side
Favorite race venues: Vancouver, Hong Kong, Long Beach, Marathon, FL
Hobbies: dragon boat, outrigger canoe, weightlifting, music festivals, world travel, Harley riding
Why I paddle with Puff: What else would I do?
Michael
Title: President and Founder
Occupation: Dragon Boat Evangelist
With Puff since: Day 1
Originally from: Macau
Paddle: both sides
Favorite race venues: any place there is to race
Hobbies: finding restaurants for the team
Why I paddle with Puff: dragon boating is the best sport in the world
Oliver
Title: Coach
Occupation: Physician Assistant
Originally from: California
Paddle: both sides
Kristin
Member of Team USA
Title: Director / Coach
Occupation: Middle School Algebra Teacher
With Puff since: September, 2008
Originally from: San Diego, CA
Paddle: right side
Favorite race venues: Tampa, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Long Beach
Hobbies: paddling all over the world, traveling and taking crazy foot photos
Why I paddle with Puff: great friends and great exercise
Kevin
Title: Director / Head of Social Committee
Occupation: Lawyer
With Puff since: July, 2009
Originally from: St. Louis, MO
Paddle: Both Sides
Favorite race venues: Whereever there is tough competition
Hobbies: Explaining the rules against perpetuities in 500 words or less
Why I paddle with Puff: We play hard, we paddle harder
Harold
Title: Director / Member of Executive Committee / Head of Equipment Committee
Occupation: Product Designer
With Puff since: April 2011
Originally from: Bogota, Colombia
Paddles: Both sides
Favorite race venues: Disney
Hobbies: Photography, Hiking and Camping
Why I Paddle with Puff: Puff means Dragonboat for me and Dragonboat challenges me everytime i grab a paddle, not to give up but to bring out everything till the last second.
Doug
Title: Director / Member of Executive Committee / Head of Research Committee
Occupation: Inventor
With Puff since: April, 2009
Originally from: Northern Illinois
Paddle: both sides
Favorite race venues: Miami, Tampa, Marathon, Kona/Kohala coast
Why I paddle with Puff: Great team! Great fun! Winners! Learn a lot from the other paddlers!
©2010 Puff Dragon Boat Team. All rights Reserved. Puff DBRT, Inc. is a Non-Profit Corporation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
About Us About Us
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Puff was established in 2003 as the first competitive dragon boat racing team in the Miami area. Our group varies widely in terms of age, race, nationality, religion, and many other things, but we all share a passion for this sport, and we enjoy each other’s company. We aim to be a competitive team in the local area and beyond, and to help raise the level of competition of the sport in the area.As a team, we usually participate in about four races per year in Florida, plus one or two out-of-state races. We have traveled to races throughout the United States, and recently a group of us raced in Hong Kong. We plan to have ongoing international excursions for those who can attend, and various other combinations of social and racing opportunities. Throughout our travels we have created a network of friends worldwide, which affords us many opportunities for individuals to join with other teams, when the full team cannot participate.We are always looking for new members with a passion for excitement, a good team spirit, and a desire to improve though practice. Growth of the team gives us opportunities to strengthen our most competitive group, plus it allows us to enter races in multiple divisions.
©2010 Puff Dragon Boat Team. All rights Reserved. Puff DBRT, Inc. is a Non-Profit Corporation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Mission Statement Mission Statement
Our mission is to cultivate a team environment that is conducive to each member’s discovery of his or her own personal best. Besides having fun, making friends, exercising our butts off, and working together to beat the living daylights out of the competition while promoting the international sport of dragon boating, we are here to develop at our highest levels.We come from all walks of life, all ages, and all backgrounds. We are made up of different shapes and sizes and we all have distinct personalities. Some of us have been paddling for years and some of us are relative newbies. Even so, we treat each other as equals, and celebrate our unique strengths.Puff is a community of individuals with a common goal: to better ourselves as athletes while contributing to team unity and excellence. We do so by adhering to the following values:Sportsmanship: We compete to win, but in the process, we play fair and display courtesy.Team Spirit: We give 110%. We are only as strong as our weakest link. We paddle together - in sync and as a team - and in return we learn that together we are more than the sum of our individual strengths.Respect: We appreciate and maintain high regard for one another. The pacers, the engine room, the rockets, the drummer, the steersman, the captain, the coach...everyone counts, everyone matters.Tenacity: As buoyant as our boat, we recover quickly from our “off” practices and races and continue focusing on future wins. We brave the rough currents, wind, and rain and even brave the power boaters and jet skiers, because nothing will stop us from training our bodies and our minds (except lightning, of course!).
©2010 Puff Dragon Boat Team. All rights Reserved. Puff DBRT, Inc. is a Non-Profit Corporation under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Puff Races Puff Races
2011 Orlando International Boat Festival At Disney (Orlando, FL) 2nd place - Division A - 500m Mixed Tampa Bay Dragon Boat Festival (Tampa, FL) 6th place - Division A - 500m Mixed Battle in the Bay Dragon Boat Festival (Marathon, FL) 1st place - Division A - 400m Mixed (Puffers racing as Tarpons) 1st place - Division A - 2000m Mixed (Puffers racing as Tarpons) 2010 Orlando International Boat Festival At Disney (Orlando, FL) 6th place - Division A - 500m Mixed 2nd place - 2000m Mixed Synergy Series (Deerfield Beach, Fl) Overall Series Champions in Women’s and Men’s Divisions. Tie for 1st place in Mixed Division (4 race series) Tampa Bay Dragon Boat Festival (Tampa, FL) 7th place - Division A - 500m Mixed Battle in the Bay Dragon Boat Festival (Marathon, FL) 1st place - Division A - 400m Mixed (Puffers racing as Tarpons) 1st place - Division A - 2000m Mixed (Puffers racing as Tarpons) South Florida Dragon Boat Festival (Haulover, FL) 2nd place - Division A - 500m Mixed 2nd place - Division A - 500m Women’s 2nd place - Division A - 100m Open Miami Hong Kong Dragon Boat Competition (Key Biscayne, Fl) November 1st place - Division A - 500m Mixed 1st place - 2000m Mixed Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival (Vancouver, Canada) 6th place - 500m Mixed (Puffers racing as AbbyNormal) 5th place - 500m Women’s (Puffers racing as Nefertiti) 6th place - 500m Men’s (Puffers racing as Looking for Oars) Hong Kong International Dragon Boat Carnival (Hong Kong) 5th place - Division A - 500m Mixed (Puffers racing as Canusa) Atlanta Dragon Boat Festival (Atlanta, GA) 2nd place - Division A - 500m Mixed (Puffers racing as Everblades-Gators) 3rd place - Division A - 500m Mixed (Puffers racing as Everblades-Crocs) 2nd place - Division A - 2000m Mixed (Puffers racing as Everblades-Gators) 4th place - Division A - 2000m Mixed (Puffers racing as Everblades-Crocs) 2009 Orlando International Boat Festival At Disney (Orlando, FL) 7th place - Division A - 500m Mixed 2nd place - 2000m Mixed Synergy Series (Hollywood, FL) Overall Series Champions in Mixed, Women’s and Men’s Divisions (4 race series) Tampa Bay Dragon Boat Festival (Tampa, FL) 9th place - Division A - 500m Mixed Battle in the Bay Dragon Boat Festival (Marathon, FL) 4th place - Division A - 400m Mixed South Florida Dragon Boat Festival (Haulover, FL) 1st place - Division A - 500m Mixed 1st place - Division A - 500m Women’s 3rd place - Division A - 500m Men’s World Corporate and Community Championships - Miami Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival (Miami, FL) 1st place - 2000m Mixed 2nd place - Division A - 500m Mixed Denver Dragon Boat Festival (Denver, CO) 1st place - 500m Mixed (Puffers racing as Chop Suey)
