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AVP Tour
$200,000 The Manhattan Beach Open
August 23 - 25, 2013

(1) Jennifer Kessy/April Ross

Jennifer Kessy

Photo: Ed Chan

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jul 31, 1977 (46 yrs old)

Home Town:

San Juan Capistrano, CA

Resides:

Hollis Center, ME

Height:

6'0"

College(s):

Southern California

Seasons:

Tournaments:

264

Career Wins:

Career AVP Wins:

Career Winnings:

$1,445,459.50

April Ross

Photo: Ed Chan

Personal Info

Birth Date:

Jun 20, 1982 (41 yrs old)

Home Town:

Newport Beach, CA

Resides:

Costa Mesa, CA

Height:

6'1"

College(s):

Southern California

Seasons:

Tournaments:

269

Career Wins:

Career AVP Wins:

Career Winnings:

$2,041,312.50

Team Career Summary

Tour	Played	1	2	3	4	5	7	9	13	17	25	37	CQ	Money
AVP	51	12	13	15	0	8	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	$769,750.00
FIVB	78	10	12	9	4	20	3	12	1	3	2	1	1	US$1,204,850.00
FIVB C&S	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	US$1,100.00
NVL	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$27,500.00
P&R	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$10,000.00
Pro Beach	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$22,500.00
Wide Open	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	$7,000.00
Overall	136	26	26	26	4	28	6	12	1	3	2	1	1	US$2,042,700.00

Previous Manhattan Beach Results

Year	Partner - Result	Partner - Result
2001	Heather Lowe - 9th	Did not play
2002	Cary Wendell - 9th	Did not play
2003	Jenny Pavley - 13th	Did not play
2004	Barbra Fontana - 5th	Did not play
2005	Holly McPeak - 3rd	Did not play
2006	Rachel Scott - 5th	Keao Burdine - 17th
2007	April Ross - 5th	Jennifer Kessy - 5th
2008	April Ross - 2nd	Jennifer Kessy - 2nd

Recent Results

Tour	Date	Tournament	Seed	Finish	Points	Money
AVP	8/15-18/2013	AVP Salt Lake City Open	1	1	750	$15,000.00
FIVB	8/7-11/2013	Berlin Grand Slam	5	9	400	US$5,500.00
FIVB	7/22-26/2013	Long Beach Grand Slam	1	9	400	US$5,500.00
FIVB	6/18-23/2013	Rome Grand Slam	7	2	720	US$22,000.00
FIVB	6/11-16/2013	The Hague Grand Slam	2	9	400	US$5,500.00
FIVB	5/22-25/2013	Corrientes Grand Slam	2	4	560	US$12,900.00
FIVB	5/1-5/2013	Shanghai Grand Slam	4	9	400	US$5,500.00
FIVB	4/24-28/2013	Fuzhou Open	4	5	300	US$6,500.00
FIVB	10/23-28/2012	Bangsaen Open	2	1	600	US$30,000.00
AVP	9/7-9/2012	AVP Championships	1	1	4500	$47,500.00
AVP	8/30-9/2/2012	AVP Cincinnati Open	2	1	3000	$20,000.00
FIVB	8/13-18/2012	Stare Jablonki Grand Slam	1	5	480	US$13,200.00
FIVB	7/28-8/8/2012	London 2012 Olympic Games	4	2	0	US$0.00
FIVB	7/11-15/2012	Berlin Grand Slam	4	5	480	US$13,200.00
FIVB	7/2-7/2012	Gstaad Grand Slam	4	5	480	US$13,200.00
FIVB	6/12-17/2012	Grand Slam Rome	4	3	640	US$23,000.00
FIVB	6/6-11/2012	Moscow Grand Slam	4	5	480	US$13,200.00
NVL	5/17-19/2012	NVL Preakness	1	1	800	$7,500.00
FIVB	5/7-12/2012	Beijing Grand Slam	5	5	480	US$13,200.00
FIVB	4/30-5/5/2012	Shanghai Grand Slam	5	5	480	US$13,200.00
FIVB	4/15-20/2012	Brasília Open	5	9	240	US$6,000.00
FIVB	11/1-6/2011	Phuket Open	2	2	540	US$21,000.00
Pro Beach	9/23-25/2011	Pro Beach Volleyball Series Hermosa Beach Open	1	1	720	$15,000.00
Pro Beach	9/16-18/2011	Miami Beach Pro	1	3	576	$7,500.00
NVL	9/10-11/2011	NVL Miami Beach	1	1	1500	$20,000.00
Wide Open	9/1-4/2011	U.S. Open of Beach Volleyball	1	3	0	$7,000.00
FIVB	8/23-28/2011	The Hague Open	8	5	360	US$9,100.00

AVP Manhattan Beach Open Matches

Date

Bracket

Opponent

Score

Time

Sat, 8/24/2013

Winner 1

Lara Dykstra / Alexa Strange (32, Q16)

Won 21-9, 21-13

0:31

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jennifer Kessy	Total	24	18	1	0.708	0	11	1	1
	1	11	8	1	0.636	0	4	0	0
	2	13	10	0	0.769	0	7	1	1
April Ross	Total	16	10	0	0.625	0	5	1	3
	1	7	5	0	0.714	0	3	1	1
	2	9	5	0	0.556	0	2	0	2

Sat, 8/24/2013

Winner 2

Rasa DiSalvo / Alicia Zamparelli-Flavia (16)

Won 21-12, 21-10

0:35

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jennifer Kessy	Total	17	9	2	0.412	1	5	4	0
	1	14	8	2	0.429	1	4	2	0
	2	3	1	0	0.333	0	1	2	0
April Ross	Total	28	18	1	0.607	0	13	3	3
	1	11	6	1	0.455	0	5	0	2
	2	17	12	0	0.706	0	8	3	1

Sat, 8/24/2013

Winner 3

Kathryn Piening / Sheila Shaw (8)

Won 21-15, 21-8

0:34

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jennifer Kessy	Total	16	11	0	0.688	0	8	0	1
	1	9	6	0	0.667	0	4	0	0
	2	7	5	0	0.714	0	4	0	1
April Ross	Total	15	12	0	0.800	2	6	5	3
	1	6	5	0	0.833	1	3	1	1
	2	9	7	0	0.778	1	3	4	2

Sun, 8/25/2013

Winner 4

Lauren Fendrick / Brittany Hochevar (4)

Lost 14-21, 21-18, 13-15

0:53

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jennifer Kessy	Total	34	16	5	0.324	1	5	0	6
	1	11	5	3	0.182	0	0	0	3
	2	15	8	1	0.467	0	1	0	2
	3	8	3	1	0.250	1	4	0	1
April Ross	Total	34	17	5	0.353	0	13	0	6
	1	5	3	1	0.400	0	1	0	3
	2	14	7	2	0.357	0	7	0	2
	3	15	7	2	0.333	0	5	0	1

Sun, 8/25/2013

Contender 6

Lane Carico / Heather McGuire (11)

Won 21-13, 22-20

0:40

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jennifer Kessy	Total	26	13	3	0.385	0	9	1	0
	1	11	8	1	0.636	0	5	1	0
	2	15	5	2	0.200	0	4	0	0
April Ross	Total	26	18	3	0.577	1	11	4	2
	1	9	7	2	0.556	1	2	1	1
	2	17	11	1	0.588	0	9	3	1

Sun, 8/25/2013

Semi-Finals

Jennifer Fopma / Brooke Sweat (3)

Lost 21-23, 17-21

0:42

Player	Game	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jennifer Kessy	Total	42	19	9	0.238	2	14	0	0
	1	20	9	5	0.200	1	6	0	0
	2	22	10	4	0.273	1	8	0	0
April Ross	Total	20	10	2	0.400	0	6	1	3
	1	12	6	1	0.417	0	3	0	2
	2	8	4	1	0.375	0	3	1	1

Overall Tournament Stats
Player	Attacks	Kills	Errors	Hitting Pct.	Blocks	Digs	Aces	Service Errors
Jennifer Kessy	159	86	20	0.415	4	52	6	8
April Ross	139	85	11	0.532	3	54	14	20

Head to Head Results
Kessy/Ross lead the series against the field 14-4

Date	Tour	Tournament	Round	Winning Team	Seed	Losing Team	Seed	Score	Time
Lead the series against # 2 Pavlik/Walsh Jennings 1-0
8/18/13	AVP	AVP Salt Lake City Open	Contender 4	Kessy/Ross	1	Pavlik/Walsh Jennings	2	23-25, 21-17, 17-15	1:05
Lead the series against # 3 Fopma/Sweat 3-2
8/25/13	AVP	AVP Manhattan Beach Open	Semi-Finals	Fopma/Sweat	3	Kessy/Ross	1	23-21, 21-17	0:42
8/10/13	FIVB	Berlin Grand Slam	Winner 2	Fopma/Sweat	16	Kessy/Ross	5	21-12, 21-13	0:32
6/21/13	FIVB	Rome Grand Slam	Winner 2	Kessy/Ross	7	Fopma/Sweat	24, Q3	21-15, 21-19	0:40
5/2/13	FIVB	Shanghai Grand Slam	Pool D	Kessy/Ross	4	Fopma/Sweat	29, Q13	21-15, 21-19	0:41
9/1/12	AVP	AVP Cincinnati Open	Winner 4	Kessy/Ross	2	Fopma/Sweat	6	21-18, 21-12
Series tied with # 4 Fendrick/Hochevar 1-1
8/25/13	AVP	AVP Manhattan Beach Open	Winner 4	Fendrick/Hochevar	4	Kessy/Ross	1	21-14, 18-21, 15-13	0:53
8/18/13	AVP	AVP Salt Lake City Open	Finals	Kessy/Ross	1	Fendrick/Hochevar	5	20-22, 21-18, 15-13	1:11
Series tied with # 5 Engle/Hunkus 1-1
8/18/13	AVP	AVP Salt Lake City Open	Semi-Finals	Kessy/Ross	1	Engle/Hunkus	8	21-15, 21-19	0:42
8/17/13	AVP	AVP Salt Lake City Open	Winner 2	Engle/Hunkus	8	Kessy/Ross	1	13-21, 21-14, 16-14	0:55
Lead the series against # 6 Batt-Rohr/Ferreira 1-0
8/17/13	AVP	AVP Salt Lake City Open	Contender 3	Kessy/Ross	1	Batt-Rohr/Ferreira	4	21-16, 21-19	0:38
Lead the series against # 8 Piening/Shaw 1-0
8/24/13	AVP	AVP Manhattan Beach Open	Winner 3	Kessy/Ross	1	Piening/Shaw	8	21-15, 21-8	0:34
Lead the series against # 9 Pazo/VanZwieten 1-0
9/7/12	AVP	AVP Championships	Pool A	Kessy/Ross	1	Pazo/VanZwieten	12	21-17, 21-17
Lead the series against # 11 Carico/McGuire 1-0
8/25/13	AVP	AVP Manhattan Beach Open	Contender 6	Kessy/Ross	1	Carico/McGuire	11	21-13, 22-20	0:40
Lead the series against # 12 Miller/Nielsen 1-0
8/17/13	AVP	AVP Salt Lake City Open	Contender 2	Kessy/Ross	1	Miller/Nielsen	11, Q3	21-19, 21-15	0:40
Lead the series against # 13 Harris/Wallin-Brockway 1-0
4/17/10	AVP	AVP Fort Lauderdale Open	Winner 2	Kessy/Ross	2	Harris/Wallin-Brockway	18	21-9, 21-16	0:38
Lead the series against # 16 DiSalvo/Zamparelli-Flavia 1-0
8/24/13	AVP	AVP Manhattan Beach Open	Winner 2	Kessy/Ross	1	DiSalvo/Zamparelli-Flavia	16	21-12, 21-10	0:35
Lead the series against # 32, Q16 Dykstra/Strange 1-0
8/24/13	AVP	AVP Manhattan Beach Open	Winner 1	Kessy/Ross	1	Dykstra/Strange	32, Q16	21-9, 21-13	0:31