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AVP Tour
$125,000 AVP Pro Series Austin Open
May 6 - 8, 2022

(14) Raffe Paulis/Jeff Samuels

Raffe Paulis

Photo: Ken Delgado

Personal Info

Birth Date:

May 13, 1986 (39 yrs old)

Home Town:

Chicago, IL

Height:

6'2"

College(s):

Northeastern Illinois

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Best:

4th (NORCECA Managua 2022)

Career AVP Best:

5th (Waupaca 2023)

Career Winnings:

$24,075.00

Jeff Samuels, II

Photo: Ken Delgado

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jun 1, 1986 (39 yrs old)

Home Town:

Grand Blanc, MI

Height:

6'3"

College(s):

Michigan State
Davenport

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Best:

2nd (2 times)

Career AVP Best:

2nd (Waupaca 2023)

Career Winnings:

$35,225.00

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
AVP	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	2	$8,350.00

Previous Austin Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2017	Piotr Marciniak - 13th	David Smith - 21st
2018	Travis Mewhirter - 13th	Michael Brunsting - 21st
2019	Andrew Dentler - 29th	Dylan Maarek - 21st

Recent Results Have not played together in the last year

Austin Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Fri, 5/6/2022

Winner 1

Theo Brunner / Chaim Schalk (3)

Lost 16-21, 19-21

0:45

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Raffe Paulis	Total	34	11	4	0.206	0	6	0	5
	1	18	5	2	0.167	0	3	0	2
	2	16	6	2	0.250	0	3	0	3
Jeff Samuels	Total	15	9	2	0.467	2	0	2	2
	1	7	4	0	0.571	0	0	1	0
	2	8	5	2	0.375	2	0	1	2

Sat, 5/7/2022

Contender 1

Paul Lotman / Skylar del Sol (11)

Lost 15-21, 14-21

0:43

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Raffe Paulis	Total	26	13	6	0.269	0	8	0	1
	1	15	10	1	0.600	0	3	0	1
	2	11	3	5	-0.182	0	5	0	0
Jeff Samuels	Total	14	7	4	0.214	1	0	0	3
	1	5	2	2	0.000	0	0	0	1
	2	9	5	2	0.333	1	0	0	2

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Raffe Paulis	60	24	10	0.233	0	14	0	6
Jeff Samuels	29	16	6	0.345	3	0	2	5

Team Finishes By Tournament Type

Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-6th	7-8th	9-12th	13-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
Challenge/Four Star/Open	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$2,500.00
Manhattan Beach	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$550.00
Tour Championships	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	$2,500.00
Heritage Series/Pro Series	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	$2,800.00
Contender Series/Tour Series	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	$0.00
Total	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	2	0	$8,350.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Raffe Paulis												Jeff Samuels
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
34	0	0	0	0	0	10	16	0	1	$11,400.00	Challenge/Four Star/Open	18	0	0	0	0	0	5	7	1	1	$6,000.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00	Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star
8	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	$1,000.00	Manhattan Beach	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	$1,450.00
7	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	0	$1,650.00	Tour Championships	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	$1,650.00
3	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	$5,350.00	Gold Series	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	$925.00
9	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	2	$2,700.00	Heritage Series/Pro Series	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	0	1	$2,000.00
13	0	0	0	0	2	5	6	0	0	$1,400.00	Contender Series/Tour Series	15	0	1	1	0	2	10	1	0	0	$4,525.00
75	0	0	0	0	3	20	32	4	4	$23,500.00	Total	49	0	1	1	0	2	19	15	4	3	$16,550.00

Team Finishes by Season

			Results												Matches
Season	Assoc	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-6th	7-8th	9-12th	13-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Won	Lost	Pct
2017	AVP	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$2,500.00	4	2	66.7 %
2018	AVP	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	$3,050.00	7	5	58.3 %
2022	AVP	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$1,400.00	0	2	0.0 %
Total	AVP	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	2	0	$6,950.00	11	9	55.0 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Raffe Paulis													Jeff Samuels
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	2009	AVP
											2010	AVP	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$0.00	2011	NVL
											2011	Wide Open	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	2012	AVP
											2012	NVL	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	$0.00
4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	1	$475.00	2012	Pro Beach
5	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	$0.00	2013	AVP
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$50.00	2013	NVL	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	$675.00
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	$0.00	2014	AVP
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$50.00	2014	NVL	6	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	$3,600.00
7	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	0	$1,650.00	2015	AVP
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00	2015	NVL	8	0	1	4	0	2	1	0	0	0	$11,675.00
											2015	NORCECA	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$250.00
7	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	1	$1,400.00	2016	AVP	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$400.00
											2016	NVL	4	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	0	0	$2,475.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	2016	FIVB
7	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	1	$3,500.00	2017	AVP	8	0	0	0	0	0	5	3	0	0	$6,175.00
7	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	2	1	$4,775.00	2018	AVP	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	2	0	$2,525.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$500.00	2018	FIVB	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
8	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	1	$2,225.00	2019	AVP	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	$0.00
2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	$0.00	2021	AVP	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	$0.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$700.00	2022	AVP	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$700.00
59	0	0	0	0	0	14	22	8	15	$15,325.00	Total	Total	51	0	1	5	0	11	12	11	4	7	$28,475.00

Team Match Records

	Won 1st Set								Lost 1st Set								2 Set Matches		3 Set Matches		By Forfeit		All Matches
Season	Won 2-0		Won 2-1		Lost 2-1		Overall		Won 2-1		Lost 2-1		Lost 2-0		Overall		Overall		Overall		Won	Lost	Overall
Overall	10	62.5%	5	31.3%	1	6.3%	15-1	93.8%	2	13.3%	3	20.0%	10	66.7%	2-13	13.3%	10-10	50.0%	7-4	63.6%	0	0	17-14	54.8%
2021-2022	0	0.0%	1	100.0%	0	0.0%	1-0	100.0%	0	0.0%	2	50.0%	2	50.0%	0-4	0.0%	0-2	0.0%	1-2	33.3%	0	0	1-4	20.0%
Against the Field	0		0		0		0-0		0	0.0%	1	33.3%	2	66.7%	0-3	0.0%	0-4	0.0%	0-2	0.0%	0	0	0-3	0.0%

Team Match Records by Round

	Country Quota		Qualifier		Pool Play		Lucky Loser		Elimination Rounds		Semi-Finals		Bronze Medal		Gold Medal		Overall
Tournament Type	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost	Won	Lost
Challenge/Four Star/Open	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2
Manhattan Beach	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
Tour Championships	0	0	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	3
Heritage Series/Pro Series	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	4
Contender Series/Tour Series	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3
Total	0	0	11	1	2	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	17	14

Head to Head Results
Paulis/Samuels trail the series against the field 0-2 (Lead 0 Series, Trail 2 Series, 0 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 3 Brunner/Schalk 0-1
5/6/22	AVP	Austin Open	Winner 1	Brunner/Schalk	3	Paulis/Samuels	14	21-16, 21-19	0:45
Trail the series against # 11 del Sol/Lotman 0-1
5/7/22	AVP	Austin Open	Contender 1	Lotman/del Sol	11	Paulis/Samuels	14	21-15, 21-14	0:43