i'm been paddling with lincoln for the past four years. >> i'm kelsey fong. i've also been paddling with lincoln for the past four years. >> i'm jason tang. i also have been paddling for four years. shocker. >> so first off, we'd like to thank everyone here at san francisco city hall who have gathered here today to congratulate us on our recent performance at the world championships in hungary. so, thank you to our coaches, families, friends and supporters that have made it possible for us to make it this far. going to hungary it was a onces in a lifetime experience for us. in reality, though, it wasn't just a trip for our team. it was the cumulation of four years of hard practice and ambition. setting -- settling our ever increation sights on the highest level of competition in the world. this is when the idea was seriously a twinkle in the eye of our head coach fanny chen back when we were 30-strong instead of 100 and still thinking about how to not lose at our local races. we saw the truly staggering scale of the dragonboat community from all over the worl