So, thank you, hillary, as well. So, thank you very much. applause thank you, supervisor. Id like to acknowledge our next colleague to offer a commendation, our district 2 supervisor, supervisor farrell. Thank you. Colleagues, today i have a really fun one. We are going to be honoring our viking soccer club here in San Francisco and theyre under 9 girls team. So, girls, why dont you come on up. applause so, colleagues, why were honoring them today, this is the vikings under 9 years girls team called courage, and were honoring them because they not only won the San Francisco ccsl prep tournament, but just a few weeks ago they also won the norcal state cup. applause as we can all see, and this is done over the weekend of november 16th. The courage under 9 team is comprised of girls from six different supervisor districts throughout the city of San Francisco, and the name courage encourages those girls and these girls to do their best and challenge their fears and Work Together as a team
There are six straight wins earned courage the norcal championship and demonstrates to us what hard work and teamwork can do together. First of all, girls, the board of supervisors would like to say congratulations to you for really understanding the true meaning of hard work and for representing us as a city of San Francisco at the state and playing three games a day is no small task. And to be champions at the end is really something thats remarkable. I want to thank the coaches, mary and lawrence, for their endless time and guidance and support of these teams, and special thanks for today to a good friend of mine and fellow parishioner, aaron barnes, for organizing this event today. And lastly, and very much personally, thank you to the parents of the team members. So many of you that are out in the audience, you know, i know the time spent taking your children to and from practice in games in manteca, thats a whole different world. [speaker not understood] for our children, i can i