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$200,000 AVP Cuervo Gold Crown Huntington Beach Open
May 3 - 6, 2007

(12) Nick Lucena/Bill Strickland

Nick Lucena

Photo: Ed Chan

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Sep 22, 1979 (46 yrs old)

Home Town:

Davie, FL

Height:

6'1"

College(s):

Florida State

Seasons:

Tournaments:

288

Career Wins:

Career AVP Wins:

Career Winnings:

$1,382,652.50

Bill Strickland

Photo: Ed Chan

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Dec 26, 1980 (45 yrs old)

Home Town:

Malibu, CA

Height:

6'9"

College(s):

Stanford

Seasons:

Tournaments:

103

Career Wins:

1 (NORCECA Boca Chica 2006)

Career AVP Best:

3rd (5 times)

Career Winnings:

$139,600.00

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
AVP	10	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	3	1	0	$29,425.00

Previous Huntington Beach Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2003	Phil Dalhausser - 25th	Did not play
2004	Phil Dalhausser - 13th	Did not play
2005	Phil Dalhausser - 7th	Justin Phipps - 25th
2006	George Roumain - 9th	Adam Roberts - 33rd

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
AVP	4/19-21/2007	Dallas Open	13	7th	180	$4,650.00
AVP	4/13-15/2007	Miami Open	16	13th	108	$1,700.00

Huntington Beach Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Fri, 5/4/2007

Winner 1

Dain Blanton / Jason Lee (21)

Won 21-19, 21-16

0:49

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nick Lucena	Total	22	12	2	0.455	2	18	0	4
	1	11	6	1	0.455	1	9	0	2
	2	11	6	1	0.455	1	9	0	2
Bill Strickland	Total	22	14	2	0.545	2	2	0	0
	1	14	9	0	0.643	0	2	0	0
	2	8	5	2	0.375	2	0	0	0

Fri, 5/4/2007

Winner 2

Casey Jennings / Mark Williams (5)

Won 21-19, 22-24, 15-7

0:54

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nick Lucena	Total	40	24	7	0.425	1	15	0	3
	1	11	6	3	0.273	0	3	0	1
	2	18	11	3	0.444	1	7	0	1
	3	11	7	1	0.545	0	5	0	1
Bill Strickland	Total	25	14	4	0.400	6	5	0	1
	1	10	5	3	0.200	5	3	0	0
	2	11	7	0	0.636	0	1	0	1
	3	4	2	1	0.250	1	1	0	0

Sat, 5/5/2007

Winner 3

John Mayer / Matt Prosser (20)

Won 21-15, 21-16

0:38

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nick Lucena	Total	23	12	4	0.348	1	12	2	5
	1	15	8	3	0.333	0	8	2	4
	2	8	4	1	0.375	1	4	0	1
Bill Strickland	Total	19	11	4	0.368	5	0	0	0
	1	6	4	0	0.667	3	0	0	0
	2	13	7	4	0.231	2	0	0	0

Sat, 5/5/2007

Winner 4

Phil Dalhausser / Todd Rogers (1)

Lost 11-21, 19-21

0:44

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nick Lucena	Total	11	5	4	0.091	0	7	1	6
	1	4	1	1	0.000	0	1	0	3
	2	7	4	3	0.143	0	6	1	3
Bill Strickland	Total	29	18	7	0.379	0	0	1	0
	1	13	8	4	0.308	0	0	0	0
	2	16	10	3	0.438	0	0	1	0

Sun, 5/6/2007

Contender 6

Mike Lambert / Stein Metzger (2)

Lost 18-21, 21-18, 11-15

1:03

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nick Lucena	Total	33	12	8	0.121	0	11	0	2
	1	11	4	2	0.182	0	4	0	0
	2	20	8	5	0.150	0	6	0	2
	3	2	0	1	-0.500	0	1	0	0
Bill Strickland	Total	40	19	8	0.275	9	2	1	1
	1	13	6	1	0.385	5	1	0	0
	2	10	4	3	0.100	4	0	1	1
	3	17	9	4	0.294	0	1	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nick Lucena	129	65	25	0.310	4	63	3	20
Bill Strickland	135	76	25	0.378	22	9	2	2

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	10	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	3	1	0	0	$29,425.00
Total	10	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	3	1	0	0	$29,425.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Nick Lucena												Bill Strickland
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	$0.00	Olympic Games
6	0	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	0	$43,400.00	World Championships
4	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	$87,500.00	World Tour Finals
59	3	5	3	2	13	8	14	5	0	$406,900.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$1,750.00
159	13	19	19	4	43	38	8	9	0	$528,627.50	Challenge/Four Star/Open	69	0	0	4	0	12	30	8	3	0	$93,370.00
1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$5,000.00	Futures/Three Star/Two Star/One Star
15	3	2	3	0	2	4	0	1	0	$110,200.00	Manhattan Beach	11	0	0	0	0	1	3	3	0	0	$14,830.00
9	2	2	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	$55,400.00	Tour Championships	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	$4,500.00
2	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$15,000.00	Gold Series
4	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	$8,500.00	Heritage Series/Pro Series
261	24	29	28	7	68	53	24	15	0	$1,260,527.50	Total	83	0	0	5	0	13	33	11	4	0	$114,450.00

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
2007	AVP	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	$12,350.00	8	6	57.1 %
Total	AVP	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	$12,350.00	8	6	57.1 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Nick Lucena													Bill Strickland
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	2001	BVA
6	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	2	$780.00	2003	AVP
10	0	0	1	0	1	7	1	0	0	$10,310.00	2004	AVP	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00
13	1	1	2	0	6	2	1	0	0	$49,537.50	2005	AVP	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	$175.00
2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	$3,250.00	2005	FIVB
16	0	0	0	0	9	5	1	1	0	$31,525.00	2006	AVP	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	2	$1,275.00
											2006	NORCECA	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$2,000.00
3	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	$6,175.00	2007	AVP	3	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	$6,175.00
51	1	1	3	0	18	16	3	6	3	$101,577.50	Total	Total	16	1	0	0	0	2	1	3	3	6	$9,625.00

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	17	60.7%	3	10.7%	8	28.6%	20-8	71.4%	3	20.0%	5	33.3%	7	46.7%	3-12	20.0%	17-7	70.8%	6-13	31.6%	1	0	24-20	54.5%
2006-2007	17	60.7%	3	10.7%	8	28.6%	20-8	71.4%	3	20.0%	5	33.3%	7	46.7%	3-12	20.0%	17-7	70.8%	6-13	31.6%	1	0	24-20	54.5%
Against the Field	11	55.0%	2	10.0%	7	35.0%	13-7	65.0%	3	20.0%	5	33.3%	7	46.7%	3-12	20.0%	22-12	64.7%	10-24	29.4%	1	0	17-18	48.6%

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	13	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	20
Total	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	20

Head to Head Results
Lucena/Strickland lead the series against the field 7-5 (Lead 7 Series, Trail 5 Series, 0 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 Dalhausser/Rogers 0-1
5/5/07	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 4	Dalhausser/Rogers	1	Lucena/Strickland	12	21-11, 21-19	0:44
Trail the series against # 2 Lambert/Metzger 0-1
5/6/07	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Contender 6	Lambert/Metzger	2	Lucena/Strickland	12	21-18, 18-21, 15-11	1:03
Trail the series against # 4 Fuerbringer/Scott 0-1
4/20/07	AVP	Dallas Open	Winner 2	Fuerbringer/Scott	4	Lucena/Strickland	13	17-21, 21-16, 15-9	1:00
Lead the series against # 5 Jennings/Williams 1-0
5/4/07	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 2	Lucena/Strickland	12	Jennings/Williams	5	21-19, 22-24, 15-7	0:54
Lead the series against # 6 Holdren/Nygaard 1-0
4/20/07	AVP	Dallas Open	Contender 2	Lucena/Strickland	13	Holdren/Nygaard	5	21-18, 3-2 Retired	0:32
Lead the series against # 8 Medel/Souza 1-0
4/20/07	AVP	Dallas Open	Contender 3	Lucena/Strickland	13	Medel/Souza	7	21-15, 21-17	0:39
Trail the series against # 9 Mariano/Witt 0-1
4/21/07	AVP	Dallas Open	Contender 4	Mariano/Witt	11	Lucena/Strickland	13	17-21, 21-19, 18-16	1:09
Trail the series against # 10 Kiraly/Wong 0-1
4/14/07	AVP	Miami Open	Contender 2	Kiraly/Wong	10	Lucena/Strickland	16	21-16, 20-22, 15-12	1:02
Lead the series against # 16 Doble/Loomis 1-0
4/14/07	AVP	Miami Open	Contender 1	Lucena/Strickland	16	Doble/Loomis	15	21-17, 25-23	0:47
Lead the series against # 19 Jewell/Loiola 1-0
4/20/07	AVP	Dallas Open	Winner 1	Lucena/Strickland	13	Jewell/Loiola	20	16-21, 21-11, 15-13	1:02
Lead the series against # 20 Mayer/Prosser 1-0
5/5/07	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 3	Lucena/Strickland	12	Mayer/Prosser	20	21-15, 21-16	0:38
Lead the series against # 21 Blanton/Lee 1-0
5/4/07	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 1	Lucena/Strickland	12	Blanton/Lee	21	21-19, 21-16	0:49