Aug. 30, 2007

Coney Island, N.Y. - Former Pacific men's volleyball player, Aaron Wachtfogel `03, advanced to his first finals during the AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals) Brooklyn Open in Coney Island, New York on Aug. 25.

Wachtfogel and his partner, Scott Wong, fell in a closely contested match with one of the top ranked teams Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers by the score of 23-21 and 24-22. Dalhausser and Rodgers claimed their fourth consecutive tournament title and their ninth of the 2007 season. Wachtfogel and his partner Scott Wong took the AVP's best team, (Dalhausser and Rogers) into extra points in both scores (23-24, 24-22).

This was the first appearance in a final for both Wachtfogel and his partner Scott Wong and they advanced into the winner's bracket of the tournament. The two have played together in their last four tournaments, placing ninth and seventh before finishing fifth two weeks ago in Boston.

This performance places Wachtfogel and Wong at sixth place with 2,196 points on the AVP Tour.

Wachtfogel continues to hold the Tigers single game solo block record with nine. He remains second on the all time record for digs in a career with 712. The all around player also remains in the top ten in three other categories; fifth in kills (935), fifth in sets played (115) and fourth in attacks (2,035).

Wachtfogel and Wong, play in Cincinnati, O.H. during the weekend of Aug. 30 - Sept. 2.