Paddling on Puslinch Lake with team members from Cambridge, Guelph, and surrounding areas, we are the city’s premier dragon boat team, dedicated to celebrating life after cancer through paddling, fitness, and community.
Dragon boat paddling is a high-intensity, synchronized team sport requiring 20 paddlers to move in unison, utilizing core strength rather than just arm power – all timed to a drummer’s rhythm to maximize efficiency and speed.
Since 1998, BreastStrokes dragon boat team has served as a floating support group for breast cancer survivors. Our mission is to increase breast cancer awareness, provide hope and support for those living with the impact of breast cancer, and bring awareness to others that there is “Life after Breast Cancer.”
We provide a unique environment for paddling fitness that supports physical recovery and mental well-being. We aren’t just survivors; we are athletes, friends, and a community dedicated to showing there is vibrant life after cancer.
Upper-body exercise builds the strength required for a full life after cancer. We prove that active recovery works.
A bond exists between breast cancer survivors. In the boat, we move as one, supporting each other at every stroke.
Our dragon boat team shows the world that a diagnosis is not an end, but a beginning of an empowered chapter.
