Asian Faculty and Staff Association competes in Milwaukee Dragon Boat Festival

The team from UWM’s Asian Faculty and Staff Association delivered its best-ever performance Saturday in the 2017 Milwaukee Dragon Boat Festival, held at Lakeshore State Park.

The UWM AFSA Panthers reached the finals of the Pearl Division, the festival’s third-highest tier, with a team-record time of 1 minute, 15.48 seconds. That was good for fourth place in the division and 20th overall out of 53 boats.

AFSA Panthers team members, decked out in T-shirts celebrating UWM’s research and Graduate School, included more than two dozen faculty, students, alumni and staff from throughout campus. The team was captained by UWM history professor Chia Youyee Vang and competed in the race for a fourth consecutive year.