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AVP Tour
$183,000 Birmingham-Hoover Open presented by Vault
July 13 - 16, 2006

(18) Mike DiPierro/Steve Grotowski

Mike DiPierro

Photo: Ed Chan

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Dec 10, 1980 (44 yrs old)

Home Town:

Pompano Beach, FL

Height:

6'6"

College(s):

Lindenwood University
St. Louis Junior

Seasons:

Tournaments:

Career Wins:

1 (NVL Port St. Lucie 2016)

Career AVP Best:

7th (2 times)

Career Winnings:

$56,817.50

Steve Grotowski

Photo: Ken Delgado

Personal Info

Birth Date:

May 30, 1982 (43 yrs old)

Home Town:

London

Height:

6'6"

College(s):

University of New Haven

Seasons:

Tournaments:

120

Career Wins:

1 (NVL Port St. Lucie 2016)

Career AVP Best:

5th (Cincinnati 2013)

Career Winnings:

$82,274.60

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	Money
AVP	17	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	7	3	$24,350.00
NVL	5	1	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	$19,250.00
Overall	22	1	1	2	0	1	2	2	3	7	3	$43,600.00

Previous Birmingham Results Neither player has played in this venue before

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
AVP	7/6-9/2006	Atlanta Open	21	9th	144	$2,600.00
AVP	6/29-7/2/2006	Seaside Heights Open	25, Q2	13th	108	$1,400.00
AVP	5/26-28/2006	Huntington Beach Open	27, Q2	17th	72	$600.00
AVP	5/18-21/2006	Santa Barbara Open	25, Q1	25th	52	$350.00
AVP	3/31-4/2/2006	Fort Lauderdale Open	25	17th	72	$600.00

Birmingham-Hoover Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Fri, 7/14/2006

Winner 1

Paul Baxter / Jason Ring (15)

Lost 19-21, 15-21

0:47

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike DiPierro	Total	21	9	3	0.286	0	5	0	1
	1	8	4	1	0.375	0	4	0	1
	2	13	5	2	0.231	0	1	0	0
Steve Grotowski	Total	23	18	1	0.739	1	4	0	3
	1	14	11	0	0.786	1	2	0	3
	2	9	7	1	0.667	0	2	0	0

Fri, 7/14/2006

Contender 1

John Moran / Chris Seiffert (31, Q8)

Won 25-23, 18-21, 15-12

1:13

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike DiPierro	Total	30	21	3	0.600	4	7	0	0
	1	13	9	2	0.538	2	3	0	0
	2	12	8	1	0.583	0	3	0	0
	3	5	4	0	0.800	2	1	0	0
Steve Grotowski	Total	26	18	4	0.538	0	5	0	3
	1	9	6	0	0.667	0	4	0	0
	2	11	6	4	0.182	0	1	0	2
	3	6	6	0	1.000	0	0	0	1

Sat, 7/15/2006

Contender 2

Dain Blanton / Matt Prosser (16)

Lost 18-21, 10-21

0:44

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike DiPierro	Total	7	4	0	0.571	0	5	0	1
	1	5	2	0	0.400	0	2	0	0
	2	2	2	0	1.000	0	3	0	1
Steve Grotowski	Total	32	17	6	0.344	2	1	1	0
	1	17	12	3	0.529	1	1	1	0
	2	15	5	3	0.133	1	0	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Mike DiPierro	58	34	6	0.483	4	17	0	2
Steve Grotowski	81	53	11	0.519	3	10	1	6
Total	139	87	17	0.504	7	27	1	8
Opponents	149	102	16	0.577	7	37	6	11

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	16	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	6	3	0	$23,550.00
Manhattan Beach	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$800.00
Total	17	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	7	3	0	$24,350.00

Individual Finishes by Tournament Type

Mike DiPierro												Steve Grotowski
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Tournament Type	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
											Olympic Games	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$0.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$0.00	Elite/Major Series/Five Star/Grand Slam	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	$2,650.00
63	0	0	0	0	2	14	27	12	0	$32,317.50	Challenge/Four Star/Open	70	0	0	0	0	4	10	13	19	0	$37,537.50
1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	$1,200.00	Challenger	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	$1,225.00
7	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	$900.00	Manhattan Beach	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	$925.00
1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	$1,250.00	Tour Championships	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	$2,500.00
73	0	0	0	1	2	15	29	13	0	$35,667.50	Total	89	0	0	0	0	5	13	16	21	0	$44,837.50

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
2004	AVP	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	$500.00	1	2	33.3 %
2006	AVP	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	3	1	0	$6,150.00	15	12	55.6 %
Total	AVP	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	1	0	$6,650.00	16	14	53.3 %

Individual Finishes by Season

Mike DiPierro													Steve Grotowski
Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)	Season	Association	Played	Gold	Silver	Bronze	4th	5-8th	9-16th	17-24th	25th	Lower	Winnings (US$)
2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	$0.00	2000	AVP
1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	$0.00	2000	FIVB
3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	$300.00	2001	AVP
2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	$50.00	2002	AVP	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	$0.00
5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	$50.00	2003	AVP	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	$0.00
4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	1	$350.00	2004	AVP	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	2	$350.00
7	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	3	1	$1,425.00	2005	AVP	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	1	$787.50
7	0	0	0	0	0	2	4	1	0	$3,450.00	2006	AVP	6	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	1	0	$3,075.00
31	0	0	0	0	0	3	7	10	11	$5,625.00	Total	Total	25	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	11	7	$4,212.50

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	23	60.5%	11	28.9%	4	10.5%	34-4	89.5%	2	6.7%	6	20.0%	22	73.3%	2-28	6.7%	23-22	51.1%	13-10	56.5%	0	1	36-33	52.2%
2005-2006	14	63.6%	5	22.7%	3	13.6%	19-3	86.4%	0	0.0%	2	12.5%	14	87.5%	0-16	0.0%	14-14	50.0%	5-5	50.0%	0	0	19-19	50.0%
Against the Field	3	37.5%	5	62.5%	0	0.0%	8-0	100.0%	0	0.0%	1	7.7%	12	92.3%	0-13	0.0%	6-24	20.0%	10-2	83.3%	0	0	8-13	38.1%

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	13	1	0	0	0	0	6	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	35	31
Manhattan Beach	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	2
Total	0	0	13	1	0	0	0	0	6	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	36	33

Head to Head Results
DiPierro/Grotowski trail the series against the field 6-7 (Lead 6 Series, Trail 6 Series, 0 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 5 Hyden/Nygaard 0-2
7/7/06	AVP	Atlanta Open	Winner 3	Hyden/Nygaard	4	DiPierro/Grotowski	21	21-11, 21-19	0:38
4/1/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Contender 2	Hyden/Nygaard	7	DiPierro/Grotowski	25	21-18, 21-16	0:49
Lead the series against # 6 Gibb/Rosenthal 1-0
7/7/06	AVP	Atlanta Open	Winner 2	DiPierro/Grotowski	21	Gibb/Rosenthal	5	21-17, 16-21, 15-13	0:59
Trail the series against # 7 Stolfus/Wachtfogel 0-1
7/8/06	AVP	Atlanta Open	Contender 3	Stolfus/Wachtfogel	7	DiPierro/Grotowski	21	24-22, 21-19	0:47
Lead the series against # 8 Doble/Mariano 1-0
6/30/06	AVP	Seaside Heights Open	Winner 1	DiPierro/Grotowski	25, Q2	Doble/Mariano	8	21-16, 23-21	0:48
Trail the series against # 11 Keenan/Mayer 0-1
7/1/06	AVP	Seaside Heights Open	Contender 3	Keenan/Mayer	18	DiPierro/Grotowski	25, Q2	21-10, 21-18	0:34
Trail the series against # 12 Loomis/Ratledge 0-1
6/30/06	AVP	Seaside Heights Open	Winner 2	Loomis/Ratledge	9	DiPierro/Grotowski	25, Q2	21-14, 21-12	0:41
Lead the series against # 14 Fonoimoana/Roumain 1-0
7/7/06	AVP	Atlanta Open	Winner 1	DiPierro/Grotowski	21	Fonoimoana/Roumain	12	21-16, 18-21, 18-16	1:12
Trail the series against # 15 Baxter/Ring 0-1
7/14/06	AVP	Birmingham-Hoover Open	Winner 1	Baxter/Ring	15	DiPierro/Grotowski	18	21-19, 21-15	0:47
Trail the series against # 16 Blanton/Prosser 0-1
7/15/06	AVP	Birmingham-Hoover Open	Contender 2	Blanton/Prosser	16	DiPierro/Grotowski	18	21-18, 21-10	0:44
Lead the series against # 19 Boss/Hannemann 1-0
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Contender 1	DiPierro/Grotowski	27, Q2	Boss/Hannemann	22	21-17, 21-19	0:41
Lead the series against # 24 Mihalic/Mowrey 1-0
6/30/06	AVP	Seaside Heights Open	Contender 2	DiPierro/Grotowski	25, Q2	Mihalic/Mowrey	23, Q1	21-17, 21-16	0:42
Lead the series against # 31, Q8 Moran/Seiffert 1-0
7/14/06	AVP	Birmingham-Hoover Open	Contender 1	DiPierro/Grotowski	18	Moran/Seiffert	31, Q8	25-23, 18-21, 15-12	1:13