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AVP Tour
$245,000 AVP Cuervo Gold Crown Huntington Beach Open
May 26 - 28, 2006

(9) Nicole Branagh/Holly McPeak

Nicole Branagh

Photo: Ed Chan

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jan 31, 1979 (45 yrs old)

Home Town:

Orinda, CA

Height:

6'2"

College(s):

Minnesota

Seasons:

Tournaments:

193

Career Wins:

Career AVP Wins:

Career Winnings:

$1,100,692.50

Holly McPeak

Photo: Holly Stein/AVP

Personal Info

Birth Date:

May 15, 1969 (55 yrs old)

Home Town:

Manhattan Beach, CA

Height:

5'7"

College(s):

California-Berkeley
UCLA

Seasons:

Tournaments:

323

Career Wins:

Career AVP Wins:

Career Winnings:

$1,575,161.00

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	33	CQ	Money
AVP	12	0	2	5	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	$102,700.00
FIVB	5	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	2	US$16,400.00
Overall	17	0	2	5	1	1	2	2	0	0	1	1	2	US$119,100.00

Previous Huntington Beach Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
WPVA 1989	Did not play	Megan McCallister - 17th
WPVA 1995	Did not play	Nancy Reno - 1st
WPVA 1996	Did not play	Lisa Arce - 1st
WPVA 1997	Did not play	Lisa Arce - 1st
SG 1998	Did not play	Various - 3rd
USAV 1999	Did not play	Nancy Reno - 4th
2002	Did not play	Elaine Youngs - 1st
2003	Did not play	Elaine Youngs - 2nd
2004	Alicia Zamparelli-Flavia - 33rd	Did not play
2005	Angie Akers - 9th	Jennifer Kessy - 3rd

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
AVP	5/18-20/2006	Santa Barbara Open	8	7th	260	$5,500.00
FIVB	5/10-14/2006	Italian Open	30	25th	60	US$2,000.00
AVP	5/5-7/2006	Tempe Open	8	9th	144	$2,600.00
AVP	3/31-4/2/2006	Fort Lauderdale Open	7	9th	144	$2,450.00

Huntington Beach Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sat, 5/27/2006

Winner 1

Kimberly Coleman / Jeannette Hecker (24, Q1)

Won 21-10, 21-14

0:37

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nicole Branagh	Total	27	20	1	0.704	2	9	1	3
	1	11	7	0	0.636	2	3	1	2
	2	16	13	1	0.750	0	6	0	1
Holly McPeak	Total	19	10	2	0.421	0	15	0	1
	1	11	5	2	0.273	0	9	0	1
	2	8	5	0	0.625	0	6	0	0

Sat, 5/27/2006

Winner 2

Carrie Dodd / Barbra Fontana (8)

Won 21-18, 21-11

0:37

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nicole Branagh	Total	29	19	2	0.586	1	9	2	4
	1	16	10	2	0.500	1	5	1	3
	2	13	9	0	0.692	0	4	1	1
Holly McPeak	Total	25	11	1	0.400	0	14	2	2
	1	16	7	0	0.438	0	7	0	2
	2	9	4	1	0.333	0	7	2	0

Sat, 5/27/2006

Winner 3

Misty May-Treanor / Kerri Walsh Jennings (1)

Lost 21-19, 12-21, 13-15

0:53

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nicole Branagh	Total	41	19	7	0.293	0	10	4	2
	1	18	12	3	0.500	0	5	1	1
	2	12	4	2	0.167	0	2	1	0
	3	11	3	2	0.091	0	3	2	1
Holly McPeak	Total	43	11	5	0.140	0	20	1	0
	1	8	3	0	0.375	0	5	1	0
	2	21	3	4	-0.048	0	9	0	0
	3	14	5	1	0.286	0	6	0	0

Sat, 5/27/2006

Contender 4

Katie Jameson / Tracy Jones (13)

Won 22-20, 21-16

0:41

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nicole Branagh	Total	44	27	3	0.545	2	18	1	5
	1	19	11	1	0.526	1	7	1	3
	2	25	16	2	0.560	1	11	0	2
Holly McPeak	Total	21	10	3	0.333	0	10	0	2
	1	11	7	2	0.455	0	4	0	1
	2	10	3	1	0.200	0	6	0	1

Sun, 5/28/2006

Contender 5

Jennifer Kessy / Nancy Reynolds (7)

Won 21-17, 18-21, 15-13

1:00

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nicole Branagh	Total	44	21	1	0.455	3	7	3	4
	1	16	8	1	0.438	1	4	2	1
	2	18	7	0	0.389	0	1	1	2
	3	10	6	0	0.600	2	2	0	1
Holly McPeak	Total	38	13	6	0.184	0	35	1	0
	1	13	6	1	0.385	0	9	1	0
	2	14	3	3	0.000	0	16	0	0
	3	11	4	2	0.182	0	10	0	0

Sun, 5/28/2006

Contender 6

Dianne DeNecochea / Tammy Leibl (6)

Won 12-21, 21-18, 15-13

0:59

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nicole Branagh	Total	64	29	8	0.328	3	10	3	6
	1	20	9	4	0.250	0	1	1	2
	2	31	13	2	0.355	0	6	2	3
	3	13	7	2	0.385	3	3	0	1
Holly McPeak	Total	14	5	2	0.214	0	13	0	0
	1	4	1	1	0.000	0	1	0	0
	2	5	2	0	0.400	0	7	0	0
	3	5	2	1	0.200	0	5	0	0

Sun, 5/28/2006

Semi-Finals

Misty May-Treanor / Kerri Walsh Jennings (1)

Lost 18-21, 16-21

0:43

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nicole Branagh	Total	35	17	6	0.314	1	9	4	4
	1	18	7	4	0.167	0	4	3	2
	2	17	10	2	0.471	1	5	1	2
Holly McPeak	Total	22	8	3	0.227	0	12	0	0
	1	12	4	1	0.250	0	7	0	0
	2	10	4	2	0.200	0	5	0	0

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Nicole Branagh	284	152	28	0.437	12	72	18	28
Holly McPeak	182	68	22	0.253	0	119	4	5
Total	466	220	50	0.365	12	191	22	33
Opponents	442	185	43	0.321	8	181	12	17

Head to Head Results
Branagh/McPeak lead the series against the field 10-8 (Lead 7 Series, Trail 3 Series, 1 Series Tied)

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Trail the series against # 1 May-Treanor/Walsh Jennings 0-3
5/28/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Semi-Finals	May-Treanor/Walsh Jennings	1	Branagh/McPeak	9	21-18, 21-16	0:43
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 3	May-Treanor/Walsh Jennings	1	Branagh/McPeak	9	19-21, 21-12, 15-13	0:53
5/6/06	AVP	Tempe Open	Winner 3	May-Treanor/Walsh Jennings	1	Branagh/McPeak	8	21-11, 21-15	0:36
Trail the series against # 2 Scott/Youngs 0-1
4/1/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 3	Scott/Youngs	2	Branagh/McPeak	7	21-18, 29-31, 15-10	1:18
Trail the series against # 4 Amaral/Minello 1-2
5/19/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Contender 4	Branagh/McPeak	8	Amaral/Minello	6	26-24, 17-21, 16-14	1:07
5/6/06	AVP	Tempe Open	Contender 3	Amaral/Minello	6	Branagh/McPeak	8	21-19, 21-16	0:44
4/1/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Contender 4	Amaral/Minello	4	Branagh/McPeak	7	By Forfeit
Series tied with # 6 DeNecochea/Leibl 1-1
5/28/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Contender 6	Branagh/McPeak	9	DeNecochea/Leibl	6	12-21, 21-18, 15-13	0:59
5/20/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Contender 5	DeNecochea/Leibl	7	Branagh/McPeak	8	21-13, 21-17	0:38
Lead the series against # 7 Kessy/Reynolds 1-0
5/28/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Contender 5	Branagh/McPeak	9	Kessy/Reynolds	7	21-17, 18-21, 15-13	1:00
Lead the series against # 8 Dodd/Fontana 2-1
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 2	Branagh/McPeak	9	Dodd/Fontana	8	21-18, 21-11	0:37
5/19/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Winner 2	Dodd/Fontana	9	Branagh/McPeak	8	21-12, 31-29	0:56
5/6/06	AVP	Tempe Open	Winner 2	Branagh/McPeak	8	Dodd/Fontana	9	21-19, 21-18
Lead the series against # 10 Niles/Straton 1-0
5/19/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Contender 2	Branagh/McPeak	8	Niles/Straton	10	21-23, 21-13, 15-12	0:57
Lead the series against # 13 Jameson/Jones 1-0
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Contender 4	Branagh/McPeak	9	Jameson/Jones	13	22-20, 21-16	0:41
Lead the series against # 15 Hochevar/Tom 1-0
5/19/06	AVP	Santa Barbara Open	Contender 3	Branagh/McPeak	8	Hochevar/Tom	16	21-11, 21-13	0:30
Lead the series against # 24, Q1 Coleman/Hecker 1-0
5/27/06	AVP	Huntington Beach Open	Winner 1	Branagh/McPeak	9	Coleman/Hecker	24, Q1	21-10, 21-14	0:37
Lead the series against # 29, Q6 Fusco/Zamparelli-Flavia 1-0
4/1/06	AVP	Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 1	Branagh/McPeak	7	Fusco/Zamparelli-Flavia	26, Q4	21-12, 21-8	0:37