Montréal Thunder consists of a team of paddlers from different backgrounds, with different experiences and with a variety of different interests. What unites these paddlers are their desire to train hard on the water and at the gym, their love of teamwork, and their thirst to win.

MTDBC at the Olympic Basin

After seven years as Captain of the Ville de Montréal Rising Dragons, Chuck Li took a chance and built a new crew composed of his most talented former team members, a few national calibre athletes, and a lot of rookies. The future of this motley group of individuals was uncertain until Chuck found his ace in the hole – Coach Maxime Lee Larose – a former national flatwater canoe champion with the proven ability to turn a good team into a great one. With Maxime’s unique coaching and paddling techniques and Chuck’s dragon boat experience, the Ville de Montréal Rising Dragons was reborn in 2002 as our team: Montréal Thunder Dragon Boat Crew.

This is Montréal Thunder’s third season on the dragon boat circuit.