Mississippi Valley Dragon Boat Festival

About the Event

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)

Races Offered

Community Team

Sep 19, 2026

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Distance — 200m

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Type — Running

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09:00

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$1,500.00

Corporate Team

Sep 19, 2026

straighten

Distance — 200m

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Type — Running

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09:00

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$2,000.00

Universities, High Schools, Nonprofits, and Competitive Clubs

Sep 19, 2026

straighten

Distance — 200m

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Type — Running

timer

09:00

sell

$1,000.00

Weather History

These values represent the 3-year monthly averages for September in Davenport.

thermostat Temperature

15.7° / 26.2°

wb_sunny Feels like

14.9° / 25.3°

light_mode Avg sunshine hours

10h 43m

water_drop Avg rainfall

1.6 mm

ac_unit Avg snowfall

—

air Avg wind speed

9.9 km/h (Light breeze)

opacity Sweat loss rate

High

terrain Course conditions

Hard and dry surface

sunny Max UV Index

Moderate (5.0)

humidity_mid Humidity

66.8%

wb_twilight Sunrise

06:43

nightlight Sunset

19:09

About Davenport

Learn more about the host city, Davenport.

Davenport is one of the Quad Cities, in Eastern Iowa. This Midwestern city on the bank of the Mississippi River has seen a great deal of action throughout history. Today Davenport offers visitors interesting museums, activities and culinary experiences. Being one of the Quad Cities, a side trip to another city is easily doable - just follow the color coded signs!