matthews? >> this evening we'll be welcoming the lowell girls varsity basketball team. [applause] along with their coaches, max masani. katie and laura, quite a week for you, too, you are being honored with the team this evening and then friday, the team will be honored by the mayor and then saturday, you two have a birthday. [laughter] i know that because i just put your card in the mail. for the first time in school history, the girls' basketball team won the 2018 norcal division 5 championship defeating durham 48-31. woo! [applause] congratulations to the team and coaches for their accomplishment and i would like to call up our principal up to say a few words. and then you can introduce the coaches. >> members of the board, superintendent matthews, thank you for recognizing the lowell varsity basketball team for winning the northern california cif championship and making it to the state finals at the new arena in sacramento. that was the bomb. [laughter] as principal of lowell high school and president of the california interscholastic federation, i can say that this team represented lowell and san francisc