中国科大国际龙舟队成立

中国科大国际龙舟队正式成立了！

早在去年夏天的黄山比赛，龙舟队就已经有留学生队员参赛。本学期训练开始后，龙舟队确定了每周两次的留学生训练，提供英语讲解，除此之外也有留学生队员参与日常训练。有不少的留学生能每周坚持训练，而且技术水平以令人惊叹的速度进步，从入门到与中国同学们相近的水平不过就是三周左右的时间。有了足够的留学生参与训练，可以构成一只队伍的后备力量，选拔出了留学生龙舟队的组成。

国际龙舟队日常训练，用的也是皮皮虾，就是新创基金会赠送的那一只。2017年，新创基金会收到龙舟队的诉苦，“很多队员在也西湖划了几次后，臀部和脚跟都被磨破了，经常有队员训练结束脚跟流着血走路都疼。”于是购买了这只龙舟，用于日常训练，详情点击送你一只皮皮虾！给中国科大的最奇葩捐赠。

“龙头”安装，队员们开“香槟”庆祝

在留学生队伍的建立过程中，说着一口迷人西班牙口音英语的安塔露琪亚女生Sara起了非常重要的作用。Sara参加了去年黄山的比赛，是龙舟队最早的留学生队员之一，在建队的过程中负责与其他留学生的联络、训练安排、动作指导和选拔等诸多事宜。

在科大校园内看到一张充满异域风情的脸庞并不是一件困难的事，但由于语言和文化的隔阂，留学生和中国学生基本上是两个分离的群体，在实验室之外并没有太多的交集。而龙舟队为此提供了一个绝佳的场合，留学生队员们肤色各异，来自这个星球的不同角落，从肯尼亚到乌克兰，从西班牙到巴基斯坦，从伊朗到美国，大家说着口音各不相同的英语，简直就像一个小联合国。队伍的这种多样性有利于增进大家对其他文化的交流和了解。

以下为USTC龙舟公众号发布的新闻：

Individual time tests for paddling a distance of seventy meters was administered to all qualified international students who are willing to attend the competition in the future and have previous training experience.
Several international students have already participated in the USTC Dragon Boat Team since the competition held in Huangshan 2017. They cooperated with their excellent Chinese teammates in that competition .

The dragon boat team invited more international students to join the training, which generated interest for newcomers to try this amazing Chinese sport last semester.

This semester, the USTC Dragon Boat Team decided to offer routine training every week with English instructions. The number of international students joining the training increased tremendously.

（这只就是新创基金会资助的“皮皮虾”）

Our excellent coordination has also proved to dramatically increase each team member's enthusiasm, camaraderie, and skill for the sport. Now we have enough students to build a competitive team, so we decided to do it.

Team Leader--Coach Sara

During the process of building the team, Coach Sara, who came from Andalusia and speaks English with a charming Spanish accent, has helped us a lot. Actually, Sara was one of our first International teammates who attended the competition in Huangshan last year. She invited a lot of international students to the team and helped us organize training for them. For the reason of cultural difference, there used to be some small conflicts during our work.

Sara in Huangshan

International students say:

Just like Sara, we now have a lot of teammates from every corner of this planet. This kind of diversity would benefit our teammates on experiencing different cultures, make this sport more international, and make our team a lot more interesting.

新闻来源：中国科大龙舟队

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