On March 12th, eight teams of veterans kayak football players competed head to head in Team River Runner’s 3rd annual Kayak Football tournament at Walter Reed medical center in Bethesda, MD.

The Teams!

Calleva

The Blind B’s

Team RamRod- Shepherd University

Thundervets – DCVA

Team FUBAR -Walter Reed

Team BOHICA- Walter Reed

Terp Vets- UMD

Philly Wet Exits – Southeast PA

These teams who were made up of wounded veterans, active duty service members, their family members and other community supporters played an all day tournament of double elimination. As the day went on the playing became more fierce. These teams fought fearlessly to the end. The final match turned out to be between Team RamRod and Thundervets. Thundervets was undefeated for the day and RamRod had fought back and won two games in a row to get to the final match. The final match was a blowout where RamRod beat thundervets 4-0 and became the champion for the second year in a row!

They took home the coveted golden football

Team RamRod!

Video of their 3rd Touchdown!

Thank you to Drink More water for donating 6 cases of water to our tournament!