Evelyn Khoo, the Team Manager, reminisced how she and her fellow crewmates struggled to make a name for themselves while being in another dragon boat team. She had recalled how the team focus was not on the girls, and they were left to struggle and finished dead last in one of the worst race sets ever. Her coxwain, which happened to be the current coach of PLK, offered to train her and the girls.
Hence, Evelyn had made the snap decision to break away from her team, and with a few others, they set up PLK Paddlers. It was originally meant to be an all-women's team but in order for the team to grow especially in a male-dominated sport, men had to be included as well.
As PLK amassed in numbers and strength, that's where talents were nurtured under the training methodology of the Coach nicknamed as "the Sugarcane Machine". And so, the Old Guards of PLK had trained hard to bring PLK's name from infancy to a Force in the dragonboat arena.
Here's a quick trip down PLK's memory lane in the 2007-2010!
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| One of the first few overseas trips PLK had gone. Any familiar faces? |
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| The Pioneer Batch of the muscles of PLK! |
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| The Pioneer Batch of PLK Girls! |
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| The Old Guards of PLK. Look how far we have come since then. |
Like how our founding father Mr Lee Kwan Yew aptly put it in this simple but powerful quote
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| Credit source: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/433682639093844704/ |
