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Raffe Paulis

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California summer is insane rn! ☀️ Stoked for a few tourneys coming up finally 🙌📸 @flowwwithzo by @raffepaulis

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Fun to get back out there after 2 weeks off to let’s call it a “mental health” break even though I was pretty terrible. #lifeisbetterwithvolley by @raffepaulis

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Happy National Volleyball 🏐 Day! Let me know if you want to get out for a private lesson anytime soon! I would love to coach more since I don’t have many tourneys to play until the MBO. by @raffepaulis

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@loncarolongdrink for the 4th and some good friends 🫶 #happy4th by @raffepaulis

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This @raffepaulis rip ☄️📍North Avenue Beach, Chicago#chicagovolleyball by @raffepaulis

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Scenes from the Men’s Open Final! Congrats to Raffe @raffepaulis and Matt on the win! Amazing match from @tonypricetraining and @austinkneesfitness, entertaining the crowd and capping Beach Slap off with a great game!#beachslap #playerschicago #chicagovolleyball by @raffepaulis

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We won the tourney! @playerschicago Thanks to my sponsor @loncarolongdrink by @raffepaulis

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McCarthy and I are going to play a tourney at #NorthAvenueBeach tomorrow in #Chicago called Beach Slap. Fun local tourney. Come hang if you’re free. 🙂🙃🎥 @vbcrewmedia by @raffepaulis

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Cuties 🍊 by @raffepaulis

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Lookin for better days by @raffepaulis

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I cannot wait for Summer 😍🫶😍 #drinkloncaro @loncarolongdrink by @raffepaulis

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After following the @avpbeach Huntington qualifier yesterday, I felt compelled to write something, a little nod to those still doing it, to the ones still playing in the qualifiers, to the road dogs still punching those passports, to those with the courage to continue surfing the highs and lows, doing your best to simply stay on your feet to ride one more, and maybe one more after that. I felt compelled – always have, and probably always will – to reach out to my friends who qualified on Thursday afternoon. There are few better feelings than making it through your first (or any) qualifier. It belongs in a space reserved for getting engaged or watching your child take their first steps. I mean that. I mean it because I can recall, with a crystalline clarity the night I made my first main draw. I remember the way @raffepaulis jumped up and down, yelling “TRAVIS TRAVIS TRAVIS!” I remember him jumping into my arms. I remember @caseypatt commenting on the video of it, noting how stoked Raffe was not for himself, but for me. I remember needing a moment to myself, walking off the court, hands on my hips, smiling in disbelief – a moment captured by @louisjl23, one of the last people at Krieg Fields that evening. I remember piling into a white SUV, four people crammed into the back row. I remember meeting my wife, smushed up against me, and the first words I ever said to Delaney Knudsen: “I’m sorry I smell so bad.” I remember the words she said back: “You smell like victory.” I remember sitting at the bar that night, between @doc_vm and @troyfield_beach, cheersing celebratory beers. I remember not sleeping. I remember all these things because that’s what the brain does when it knows a moment of significance has happened. It catalogs. Records every detail. Remembers. Stays so radically present that nothing else exists. This sport has given me a life that has surpassed anything I could have imagined. Fulfillment. A daily purpose. Wonderful friends. Adventures. A family. It wasn’t longing or missing that I felt Thursday night, just a fond remembrance, and a love, I suppose is the word, for those still doing it. It’s a life worth living. by @raffepaulis

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