Mississippi Valley Dragon Boat Festival

What is a Dragon Boat Festival? 
This is an event where the community can come together to honor and celebrate those impacted by cancer in the Quad City Community or companies and organizations can use it as a team building opportunity.

Dragon Boating is easy to learn, extremely safe, and an activity where men and women compete side-by-side towards the same goal. Add the outdoors, the water, the visual spectacle of dragon boating and you get a perfect activity for friends and family, corporate team building, or a school outing.

Funds raised at this event stay locally to support the NO COST programs and services provided by Gilda’s Club Quad Cities. 

Register your team at: https://givebutter.com/c/CSCDragon25

**Please have team captain information on hand. All event correspondence will go to them to relay to their team. The team captain will be responsible day of to manage their team throughout the Dragon Boat experience. Must have 6 females on each team. **

Interested in being a sponsor for this event? Please contact Arwen Hansen, Event and Donor Relations Coordinator, at 563-594-6043 or arwen@csciowaillinois.org.

Awards:

Awards will be given for the following:

• Best team spirit
• Best team tent
• Most raised (teams)
• Most raised (individual)
• Fastest Overall Team
• Team Trophy and Gold, Silver, Bronze Participant Medals for the top three teams.
• More awards to come based on teams registered (i.e. Mayoral Cup, First Responders, Battle of the Banks, etc)

The Mississippi Valley Dragon Boat Festival brings an exciting Corporate Team, Community Team, Universities, High Schools, Nonprofits, and Competitive Clubs to Davenport, Iowa on September 19, 2026. Don't miss this beautiful event!