Repeated dropdownlists on a web form

Hello Everyone,
I have a form that has 21 dropdownlists. Those dropdownlists are used for a Training Records Entry form that user can select Attendee1, Attendee2, etc... Basically, all 21 dropdownlists are the same and each dropdownlist contains approxmatly list of 400 employees, the problem is that it takes a very long time to load the page due to large number of dropdownlists loaded from the database. I am just wondering if there is a way I can improve the page load speed. Here is the code I have in my page_load subroutine. I am using dreamweaver.

 

Sub Page_Load(Src As ...