History

Sydney Zodiacs began working with juniors and youth in 2012 attending our first regatta at Manly Dam in November 2012. As the only exclusively Junior/Youth Dragon Boat Club in NSW we offered a safe and fun environment for young people to enjoy this sport with their peers.

November 2012

Since our beginnings in 2012, Sydney Zodiacs has grown and seen members competing for both NSW and Australia. We are very proud of all our members achievements across many aspects of our sport.

At the beginning of 2014 we raced at the Lunar New Year races with our new club uniform and we had an amazing year.

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We enjoyed hard work and achieved some great things with so many Sydney Zodiacs being selected for the NSW Squad.

2014 NSW -Zodiacs Members

We always supported each other.. on and off the water.

We trained sweeps and coaches. Carrie our first junior coach, was named NSW Coach of the Year in

Training was fun and we celebrated.

2014

Over the years have travelled together to Queensland, Western Australia, Victoria and South Australia, competing and making friends along the way.

2015 Nationals took us to Perth!

and we had our Australian Aurora Zodiacs head to Canada!

2016

In 2016 We headed to Adelaide for the Australian Championships and Club Crew World Championships. Some of our U24s selected into the Australian team for the Asian Championships.

We continued to train and introduce the sport to more young people.

In 2017 we continued to build.

We volunteered!  We raced!     

and we had fun!

In 2017 we had Sydney Zodiacs representing Australia in France.

We talked about mental health to raise awareness

In 2018

2019

We went to Albury/Wadonga

and some raced for Australia in Thailand.

2020

Covid came, but we still had fun.

2021 an unusual year!

We helped film Youth Tribe!

We trained. when we could.. and caught up by zoom during lock down

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Sydney Zodiacs has experienced great success at the NSW and Australian Championships through the years standing strong for juniors and youth! In 2023, we were back in Albury for the Australian Championships where we achieved qualification for both our Juniors and 24U to compete in Italy in 2024 at the Club Crew World Championships.

State Champs 2023

Aus Champs 2023