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SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterMailbag! New Partnership Breakdowns? Most Exciting Events? Is Travis Enjoying Florida?This is the first mailbag episode of 2025, where Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter answer all of the fan questions we had as the boys are finally back together again. They answer the most pressing questions on the beach volleyball world's collective minds, including: - Who is playing with who on the AVP Tour and Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour? - How has fatherhood changed both Tri and Travis' outlook on volleyball and life? - Would you rather win a Manhattan Beach Open or a World Championship or a Gstaad cowbell? ...
2025-03-2649 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterMailbag! Why did Travis move to Florida? What will happen to the pod??This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features our lovely co-host, Savvy Simo, on one of our most popular somewhat monthly segments: fan questions. We had A LOT of fan questions to get through, which is why we split this into two: one on the AVP League, which just wrapped up, and this one, in which we answer, amongst many, many others: - With Travis moving to Florida, what’s going to happen to the pod? - How did Travis decide on the new role as an assistant on the Fl...
2024-11-131h 06SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRio Elite16 Recap: Hello Bello!This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is our recap of the Rio Elite16, where Travis and Kyle Friend broke down all of the action, including: Javier Bello and Joaquin Bello going off for a most unexpected of gold medals Another huge tournament for Nico Capogrosso and Tomas Capogrosso, who took a career-high silver medal How Martins Plavins and Kristians Fokerots have become the giant killers, knocking off Sweden’s David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig and Norway’s Anders Mol and Christian Sorum in the same tournament A fitting end to the season for...
2024-11-1234 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterJoao Pessoa Elite16 Recap: Norway Remains King; Brazil Women ReloadThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is an international Beach Access, where Travis and Kyle Friend traveled to Brazil for the Joao Pessoa Elite16. After a week in Brazil on the Beach Pro Tour, we recapped a tremendous event in Joao Pessoa, chatting: How Anders Mol and Christian Sorum are still King, fending off Sweden’s David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig and a rejuvenated Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan of Qatar No Ana Patricia and Duda? No problem for the Brazilian women, who are reloading the talent pipeline with Victoria Lopes and Th...
2024-10-2125 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterAVP League Miami Recap: Is "Home Court" Advantage Real?Welcome to Beach Access, where Travis Mewhirter and sometimes Kyle Friend and sometimes Tri Bourne break down all things domestic beach volleyball. Today, Travis is breaking down week 2 of the AVP League in Miami, discussing: Why Trevor Crabb, he of the Miami Mayhem, thinks there might be a home field advantage Why each team’s No. 2 pairing will be critical to success in the AVP League How April Ross and Alix Klineman made the most of their wild card into the League And that’s about it. Not much to wrap up from week 2 of the AVP Leag...
2024-09-2410 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterAVP League Week 1 Recap: Is This The Future of Beach Volleyball?Welcome back to Beach Access, where Travis Mewhirter and occasionally Kyle Friend break down professional beach volleyball on both the AVP Tour and the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. This week, Travis, fresh off a week in Tallahassee at Florida State, takes a look at the AVP League and its week one debut, talking: How were the teams assigned, and how in the world is Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander on the same team as Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes? (the New York Nitro) What’s the prize money for the AVP League? Why is the AVP League in...
2024-09-1919 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterHermosa Beach Open Preview: The Old School, True Open Tournament Beach Volleyball NeededWelcome back to Beach Access, where Travis Mewhirter and his producers, including a celebrity appearance from Producer Mom, preview this week's Hermosa Beach Open, presented by Wedbush Securities. We chat about: - How Travis wound up pulling Andy Benesh - Why Miles Partain is playing with Alex Ranghieri - Where are Trevor Crabb, Taylor Crabb, and Taylor Sander - Heather Bansley making her USA debut! - AVP League questions And, per usual, a whole lot more! SHOOTS! *** Get 20 PERCENT off all Wilson products...
2024-09-0514 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterBrooke Niles, Nick Lucena, and FSU Beach Volleyball's New Coach: Travis MewhirterThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Florida State Beach Volleyball’s entire (and new) coaching staff. Longtime head coach Brooke Niles, her top assistant and husband, Nick Lucena, and the new addition to the crew, Travis Mewhirter, chat all things beach volleyball, including: What it’s like being a husband-wife, coach-assistant-coach How long it took Niles and Lucena to dive full-time into coaching and not miss playing (hint: maybe the player in them never left) How Travis coaching FSU beach volleyball came to be Why even a 35-win season can sometimes leav...
2024-09-042h 05SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterAVP Chicago Preview: Who is Going to Make the AVP League?Welcome back to Beach Access, where Kyle Friend and Travis Mewhirter break down, preview, recap, analyze, and chat all things beach volleyball. After a week in Germany for the Hamburg Elite16, the boys are back stateside and heading to AVP Chicago, the final stop on the AVP calendar, where there are huge AVP League implications. We chat about: - What every team needs to do to qualify for the AVP League - Why we believe April Ross and Alix Klineman will get a wild card, making it an even tighter race for the women
2024-08-2942 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterLIVE Mailbag Episode: Why Did Tri Switch Partners? Beach Volleyball in...Montana??This is our first-ever LIVE and in-person fan question episode, a feature of our SANDCAST Tour stops, this one being in Missoula, Montana. Because who doesn't put beach volleyball and Montana together? We answer questions about: - Why did Tri Bourne switch partners, dropping Chaim Schalk for Ryan Wilcox? And for that matter...who is Ryan Wilcox? - What advice does Travis Mewhirter have for someone who didn't grow up in a beach volleyball state to get better at beach volleyball? - Travis' hilarious story on why he doesn't drive a stick shift...
2024-08-211h 04SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterParis Pod: USA Volleyball continues rolling; give me double-elim or give me deathWelcome back to the Paris Pod, where Travis Mewhirter and occasionally a guest break down the Olympic volleyball action. Today we're in the Bayview Studios with producers 1 and 2, previewing the Olympic beach volleyball playoffs, where all four USA teams -- Chase Budinger and Miles Evans, Miles Partain and Andy Benesh, Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes, Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth -- have made the playoffs, and a shout-out to the indoor teams for making it to the quarterfinals as well! On this episode, Travis chats about: Chase and Miles’ excellent performance against Australians Thomas Hodges and Zach Schubert in...
2024-08-0419 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris: France Goes CLUTCH Mode in Continental Cup, and the Netherlands Gets "Bizarre"On this episode of the Road to Paris, Travis Mewhirter breaks down the European Continental Cup -- a fancy way of saying Olympic trial -- where France's Arnaud Gauthier-Rat and Teo Rotar, and Julien Lyneel and Remi Bassereau went absolute clutch mode and clinched a second Olympic spot for the French men. Meanwhile, four young Dutch women, Brecht Piersma and Wies Bekhuis, and Kirsten Broring and Emi van Driel, won the bid for the women...or so you might think. But a weird rule in the Netherlands has muddied things up a bit, and Mewhirter explains what...
2024-06-1815 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris: Olympic Histories Written, Legacies Made, Records BrokenThis episode is brought to you by Aura! Use our link to get a free trial and help the show in a big way! On this episode of the Road to Paris, Travis Mewhirter breaks down the Ostrava Elite16, the final event of the Olympic qualifying period, where dreams were made, hearts were broken, history written, legacies etched into stone. On this episode, Mewhirter: Gives a warm welcome back to Anders Mol, who returned in dominant fashion after an injury break Breaks down the controversial call, with the help of ref John King, that decided Anouk...
2024-06-1019 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris: What every team needs to do to qualify for the OlympicsThis episode is brought to you by Aura! Use our link to get a free trial and help the show in a big way! This episode of the Road to Paris, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the race to the Paris Olympic Games, is a breakdown and analysis after the Stare Jablonki Challenge. There remains just one event left: The Ostrava Elite16, which begins next Wednesday. Even after all the action in Poland, no races were determined in Stare Jablonki. Mewhirter breaks down: Why it’s finals or bust for Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner and Al...
2024-06-0321 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterEvan Cory is Playing Volleyball His Own Damn Way in 2024This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Evan Cory, one of the brightest talents on the AVP Tour and within the USA Volleyball system. Cory had an up-and-down 2023 season, one that was still more up than it was down, but his trajectory slowed, so he felt it was a failure. It certainly wasn’t – but he learned from it. Now, coming into 2024, he’s returned to his old style of playing, building a team around him that is custom-fit to him, including a blocker you may have heard of: Alison Cerutti. We talked all ab...
2024-05-151h 27SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris: The Grimalts just did THAT! Ittlinger-Borger win first gold, Anouk retakes the leadOn this episode of the Road to Paris, Travis Mewhirter breaks down the race to the Paris Olympic Games following the Xiamen Challenge on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. As the Olympic race winds down, it just gets wilder and wilder and wilder, as: Marco Grimalt and Esteban Grimalt won their first medal of the Olympic qualifying period, coming out of the qualifier to win gold Chase Budinger and Miles Evans playing some of their worst volleyball…and also some of their best to take a fourth and cut down Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner’s lead Karl...
2024-04-2920 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris: Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot Just Did ThatThis episode of The Road to Paris, Travis Mewhirter’s breakdown of the Olympic Beach Volleyball race to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, follows the season-opening Doha Elite16, where Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot won a shocking gold (not shocking that they won, but shocking in how they did it), Tina Graudina and Anastasija Samoilova took a critical fourth, Laura Ludwig and Louisa Lippmann made the most of their wild card, and Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner continued tacking onto their lead. On this episode, Travis chats about: Why Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot are now nearly a...
2024-03-1120 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris: 10 Events, 3 Months, 1 Last Sprint for the OlympicsWelcome back to the Road to Paris! Travis Mewhirter previews the final three months of the Olympic qualification cycle, which is about to begin with this week's Doha Elite16. Doha kicks off a sprint of the next three months, which feature 10 events on four continents. On this episode: - Travis provides a statistical analysis projecting the odds for every team remaining in the race - Why Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk still have a 7.9% shot at qualifying - Explains why the top 13 men's teams, and top 12 women's teams, are safe and pretty much...
2024-03-0421 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterMailbag! Talking AVP Schedule, Hand-setting rules, Olympic Race, Tri and Chaim's New CoachThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is our season-opening mailbag episode. As always, thank y’all tons for the questions. If you want to ask a question for the pod, drop one in the comments section or send us a DM on Instagram. With the AVP schedule being released the day before we recorded, much of the conversation centered around that, as well as: What are the young guns to keep an eye out for on the AVP this year? Our thoughts on the new AVP League, and what we think of it...
2024-02-141h 09SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterBest of SANDCAST 2023: The Top Moments From Every Guest, From Andy Benesh to Zana MunoThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball With Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is a unique one: The top moment from every single podcast we did this year from A – Andy Benesh, April Ross – to Z – Zana Muno, and everywhere in between – Miles Partain, Taylor Crabb, Taylor Sander, you get it. This was, by a long, long, long shot, the most successful year the podcast has had, exploding through records in every single metric, from YouTube to audio to engagement. We wanted to THANK YOU for sticking with us through crappy audio, inconsistent camera setups, studio changes, and episodes...
2023-12-271h 10SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterFINAL Road to Paris of 2023: Sharpies, Contenders, Dark Horses for the Paris OlympicsThis is the FINAL Road to Paris of a long and wonderful 2023 beach volleyball season. This is a comprehensive recap of which teams are all but assured spots in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games – aka SHARPIED! – which teams are favored and in contention of the remaining spots, and which teams are the dark horses vying for the few spots remaining. As always, if you have any questions about the complicated Olympic qualifying process, I’d LOVE to answer them. Always happy to help and chat Olympic beach volleyball. Thank you to everyone for coming along for the ride this season, it’s b...
2023-12-2631 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterMailbag Episode! Our thoughts on the new AVP? Olympic predictions?! Best moments of 2023This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our always-popular, semi-monthly mailbag episode. And boy oh boy did we have questions for this one, largely on the same topic: What’s up with the new AVP and its proposed league model? We delve into that for a large portion of the episode, as well as: What are our Paris 2024 predictions? What does off-season look like for professional beach volleyball players? What are our best, worst, and funniest moments of 2023? Are Russians allowed back on tour? That, and a whole lot more. Thank yo...
2023-12-201h 08SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterJump Higher, Hit harder, Play Better, With Volleyball Strength Coach Nathan MichaelsThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is with volleyball strength and conditioning coach, and the man whom Mewhirter calls the “knee whisperer,” Nathan Michaels. Mewhirter began working with Michaels in 2021…and hasn’t taken a single Ibuprofen since, playing pain free, as strong and mobile as he’s ever been, all the while playing the best beach volleyball of his career. Michaels is a huge reason for that. This episode might be the most useful and practical episode we’ve done in six-plus years of podcasting, chatting about: The 5 BEST b...
2023-12-131h 43SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterMason Briggs: The Trailblazing Libero Who Built A 100k-plus FollowingThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Mason Briggs, an All-American at Long Beach State and one of the best liberos in the world. But he’s far more than that. Briggs is a trailblazer, a 22-year-old who has amassed one of the biggest followings in all of NCAA Volleyball, a following he is using to expand the reach of the game in new and innovative ways, such as trading cards. We talked all about that, as well as: Where Briggs’ entrepreneurial spirit comes from (come for the duct tape wallets, stick arou...
2023-12-061h 29SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris: Dutchmen are Flying, China is Rising, Qatar is Returning, Chase and Miles Are SurgingThis episode of The Road to Paris breaks down the two most recent  @volleyballworld  events, a Challenge in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and an Elite16 in Joao Pessoa, Brazil. The highlights, per Travis Mewhirter, are: - A Netherlands race that is heating up with a gold won by Steven van de Velde and Matthew Immers and a bronze taken by Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot - George and Andre reasserting themselves as the top team in Brazil - Chen Xue and Xinyi Xia: SHARPIE! - Chase Budinger and Miles Evans topping Tr...
2023-11-2822 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad To Paris: Maybe those USA partnership changes weren’t such a bad move after allThis past December was a wild one for USA Volleyball on the men's side. Tri Bourne dumped Trevor Crabb to pick up Chaim Schalk, and Theo Brunner then picked up Trevor Crabb. Chase Budinger scooped Miles Evans, while Miles Partain and Andy Benesh confirmed their partnership, and Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander stuck together. Eleven months later, were the partnership changes a good move? With three of the four semifinalists at the Haikou Challenge USA men, and four USA teams now in the top-24 of the Olympic rankings, well, maybe they weren't such bad moves...
2023-11-0729 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterFall Mailbag! Tri Bourne on the hot seat! Why doesn’t the AVP stream on YouTube? Where’s Sponcil?Tri Bourne made a landscape-altering decision this winter, dumping Trevor Crabb and picking up Chaim Schalk instead. The results thus far haven't backed up that decision, and our semi-monthly mailbag on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball With Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter was chock full of questions about that decision. So our episode today put Bourne on the hot seat, answering the question: Does he regret dumping Trevor for Chaim? As well as: Why doesn’t the AVP stream on YouTube anymore? Is Sarah Sponcil coming back to the beach? The fastest way young and developing players can become elite And...
2023-11-011h 15SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad To Paris: Ana Patricia and Duda vs. The WorldWelcome back to the Road To Paris, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the race to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, France. On this episode, Mewhirter breaks down the most recent  @volleyballworld  Elite16 in Paris, less than a year from the Olympics, which will be hosted right down the street from Roland Garros. We chat about: - The growing dominance of Ana Patricia and Duda, who have now won as many Elite16 gold medals (4) as the rest of the world - Alex Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen getting back on the podium for the first time in a...
2023-10-0325 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris No. 11: If you’re not jump-setting, are you even trying?This episode of the Road to Paris follows the Hamburg Elite16, an event in which every single men’s medalist – Sweden’s David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig, Italy’s Paolo Nicolai and Sam Cottafava, Norway’s Anders Mol and Christian Sorum – has added the jump-set to their offense, not to mention fifth-place finishers and master jump-setters Miles Partain and Andy Benesh. The women’s side is a touch different, as world No. 1 Ana Patricia Silva and Duda Lisboa need no trickery, nor do silver medalists Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth and German bronze medalists Cinja Tillman and Svenja Muller. Travis M...
2023-08-2220 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterBeach Volleyball Mailbag: What’s up with the AVP’s streaming? Can anyone stop Benesh and Partain? Is Klineman coming back?What’s up with the AVP’s streaming? Is Alix Klineman making a run at the Olympics? Are Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes on a slump? (if so, I’d like to slump like them). Can ANYONE stop Miles Partain and Andy Benesh? These are but a small sampling of the questions we tackled on this week’s SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball With Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, as well as Savvy Simo. AVP Atlanta seemed to be a tipping point for the fans, as more than 60 percent of our record-setting number of questions was on the AVP streamin...
2023-08-161h 22SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterJoe Worsley, Gage Worsley, and the explosion of Out of System VolleyballOut of System Volleyball is one of the fastest-rising, most viral digital media brands in the volleyball space. Joe Worsley and Gage Worsley charged onto the volleyball media scene in style, winning the 2020 Waupaca Boatride two weeks after launching Out of System – and just hours after learning how autofocus worked on their cameras. Since, they’ve exploded, adding all-world setter Micah Ma’a to the team. When it is the Worsleys and Ma’a together, they have yet to drop a single set in grass volleyball. Not one set! Meanwhile, their YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram pages are all taking off, as...
2023-08-092h 06SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterBrooke Niles: Building Florida State’s beach volleyball powerhouse as ”a family that works hard”Brooke Niles is the longtime beach volleyball coach at Florida State University, heading into her ninth year at the helm. She’s also one of the most successful coaches in NCAA Beach Volleyball history, taking the Seminoles to the NCAA Championship every single year it has existed, something no coach in the country can claim. She’s helped produce professionals such as AVP champions in Jace Pardon, Macy Jerger, and Alaina Chacon, as well as AVP mainstays in Katie Horton, Brook Bauer, and Maddie Anderson, among others. Alongside her husband, Nick Lucena, the assistant coach, Niles has helped build FSU...
2023-08-021h 23SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris No. 10: Bend the Knee to Mel and Brandie -- the real Queens of CanadaMelissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson should be crowned the real queens of Canada after their GOLD MEDAL at home in the Montreal Elite16. They were phenomenal all weekend long, surviving one three-setter after another – against Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes, Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth, Xinyi Xia and Chen Xue, Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles – to win their second gold of the season. On this episode of The Road to Paris, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the beach volleyball Olympic race, we cover that, as well as: How Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles jumped up to No. 7 in the...
2023-08-0128 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterJD Hamilton: The remarkable story of an AVP dream eight years in the makingJD Hamilton has had one of the most extraordinary journeys onto the AVP Tour of anyone who has qualified in recent memory. Long one of the nation’s top grassroots players, winning every kind of tournament in any sort of format in any state or city or town you can imagine, one major feat eluded Hamilton: Qualifying on the AVP Tour. In Virginia Beach with Travis Mewhirter, he alas did it, qualifying for the Hermosa Beach Pro Series. We recorded this episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, before Hermosa, so some of th...
2023-07-261h 27SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterChase Frishman is taking flightThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Chase Frishman. Long one of the most exciting defenders on the AVP Tour – and he won the 2016 AVP Rookie of the Year – Frishman has found a bigger, more purposeful use for his talents with the founding of Flight School Volleyball, a series of camps and clinics around the USA, from Idaho to Pennsylvania to Montana and everywhere in between. We chat all about the big year he's having on the AVP, as well as: Why he loves the collaborative element of Flight School, where he gets...
2023-07-191h 23SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris, Alaska Special: FOREVER TREVORThis is a special edition of the Road to Paris, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the Olympic beach volleyball race to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Mewhirter is in Ketchikan, Alaska with the Knudsen fam, catching salmon and eating nothing but salmon. He made a deal with himself: He’d only do a Road to Paris if an American team won a gold medal at the Volleyball World Espinho Challenge…which is exactly what Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner did! So Mewhirter did what he always does, breaking down: How Trevor and Theo just helped the USA do something it h...
2023-07-1716 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterHow Scott Davenport became the most sought-out volleyball coach in AmericaThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Scott Davenport, the man who is arguably the most sought-out beach volleyball coach in America. Since stopping playing on the AVP Tour around 2006, Davenport has built a lengthy list of athletes on his roster, including Nick Lucena, Matt Fuerbringer, Casey Patterson, Theo Brunner, Chaim Schalk, Emily Stockman, Sarah Sponcil, Terese Cannon, Troy Field, Evan Cory, Megan Kraft, Zana Muno – shall the list go on? You get the point. In 2022, Davenport became the first coach in history to win the same AVP tournament – AVP...
2023-07-121h 29SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris No. 8: ’Americans don’t take well to losing’This is episode No. 8 of The Road to Paris, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the race to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. This episode follows the  @volleyballworld  Gstaad Elite16, where Andy Benesh and Miles Partain just won perhaps the most significant gold medal since Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser won gold at the Beijing Olympic Games. That's not all, either: Twice, they topped Anders Mol and Christian Sorum. Meanwhile... - Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes took another silver medal and a cowbell - Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth won bronze - Germans Cinja Tillman an...
2023-07-1122 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterTri Bourne, Travis Mewhirter, and the Playbook Of ChampionsThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is a special one, as it is the launch of our new book, Playbook of Champions: The habits, routines, and stories of Olympians, Champions, and world-class athletes. If you listen to the show – which, if you’re reading this, then you are – then this is the perfect book for you, as it is a distillation of the best golden nuggets from our first five years of the podcast. You can buy the book on Amazon!  We whittled it down into 352 pages, featuring everyone from go...
2023-07-0550 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterDain Blanton, USC Beach Volleyball, and the building of an NCAA dynastyThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Dain Blanton, the head coach of the USC Beach Volleyball team and the man who has built the biggest dynasty in all of college sports right now. Despite losing 12 players from last year’s NCAA Championship-winning team, Blanton rebuilt in a hurry, winning a third straight NCAA title this past May. Indeed, life is good to be Blanton, and it’s good to be a USC Trojan. We chatted all about this year’s run, as well as: Blanton’s recruiting process, and how he has a un...
2023-06-281h 43SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterBrook Bauer: ”If you don’t dream big, what’s the point?”This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Brook Bauer, one of dozens of bright young talents emerging on the AVP and Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. After a successful undergraduate career at Pepperdine, Bauer finished at Florida State, where she went 29-12 on court one. After a brief, three-month hiatus in which she pursued a full-time job putting her MBA to use, Bauer quit, and is now fully invested in a career on the beach. We chatted about all of that, as well as: Her first time leaving the country to play...
2023-06-211h 24SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris No. 7: Aussie Aussie Aussie! GOLD GOLD GOLD!This is the seventh episode of the Road to Paris, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the Olympic beach volleyball race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. We also have our first guest appearance from Australian Olympian and Volleyball World commentator Damien Schumann, who provides a little background on the gold medalists. This episode follows the  @BeachVolleyballWorld  Jurmala Challenge, where Australians Zach Schubert and Thomas Hodges won gold, and Brazilians George Wanderley and Andre Loyola, Evandro Goncalves and Arthur Mariano, and Renato Lima and Vitor Felipe all made the semifinals. In this episode, Mewhirter covers: - The bi...
2023-06-2025 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterMailbag Episode! What’s up with the Taylors? Alison to the AVP? New partnerships everywhere!This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our always popular, semi-monthly mailbag episode, where our lovely co-host, Savvy Simo, moderates as we get through as many of your questions as we can! This was, per usual, a fun one, including chats on: Are Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander still making an Olympic run? Is Alison playing on the AVP full-time? What happened to Logan Webber and Evan Cory, Hagen Smith and Bill Kolinske, and how does Troy Field fit into the mix? What are the best times to ask for autographs and...
2023-06-141h 22SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRiley McKibbin and Carli Lloyd: The All-American volleyball couple living the life of athlete-parentThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features a first in many ways. In Carli Lloyd, we have one of the first indoors-only athletes to come on the show – although that is set to change this summer, when Lloyd takes to the beach and the AVP Tour. In Riley McKibbin and Lloyd, side by side on the blue couch, we also have the first couple we’ve had on (aside from the hosts and our own wives). It was, as you would expect, a treat, as Lloyd, an Olympic bronze medalist, and McKibbin, he of t...
2023-06-071h 18SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad To Paris No. 6: USA makes massive moves in OstravaThis is Episode Six of The Road to Paris, breaking down the Olympic beach volleyball race with Travis Mewhirter. After a month off of @volleyballworld events, the world returned to one of the coolest venues in the sport: Ostrava, Czech Republic, where an extensive defunct industrial area has been converted into a beach volleyball venue. It's awesome. And apparently Americans love it, as it was a MASSIVE weekend for the USA, including: - Terese Cannon and Sarah Sponcil jumping up to No. 5 in the Olympic race - Andy Benesh and Miles Partain winning the USA's...
2023-06-0626 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterApril Ross: The Olympic gold medalist who is onto the most important role: MomThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features April Ross, one of our favorite people in the world, one of the greatest players of all time, and now: A MOM TO BE! As parents ourselves now, we’re stoked for April and the new season of life she’s on. We talked about the full gamut of topics, including: What she’s been up to, under the radar, for the past two years How she became the coach for Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles, and still occasionally helps with Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunne...
2023-05-311h 40SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterAlice Zeimann: The New Zealand ’mid-major’ seeking to prove herselfThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is an absolute treat, featuring Alice Zeimann, the blocking half of the top pair in New Zealand. If you haven’t heard of Zeimann and her partner, Shaunna Polley, you will soon. They are currently the No. 31-ranked team in the world, with a win over Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth in last fall’s Torquay Elite16. An injury to Polley has limited their competition this season, but when they return, rest assured, they’ll be competitive, and are Mewhirter’s personal dark horse to qualify for the Pari...
2023-05-241h 31SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterSarah Pavan is far from retired. She’s ”chasing peace”This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Sarah Pavan, the most decorated beach volleyball player in Canada history, with a World Championship (2019), Commonwealth Games gold medal, Team of the Year (2019), three-time Blocker of the Year, and a pair of Olympic appearances to her name. This was such a fun conversation with Pavan as she nears the twilight of her career, discussing: The stark reality of sport, and how the greats just fade away while the game moves on What her next move is, as a partnership with Sophie Bukovec ended earlier than...
2023-05-181h 37SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterMiles Partain: Taking his ’spark from God’ and fanning it into flameThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, may be the most anticipated episode since we had Kent Steffes on last summer. Finally, in the studio this week, is Miles Partain, the young jedi who is returning the force to USA Volleyball. Miles is easily one of the most curious people we’ve ever met, and that curiosity has helped him develop into the most precocious and promising talent of his generation. Not that he’d tell you that. He’s as humble as can be, too, a testament to his character both on and off th...
2023-05-171h 39SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterHagen Smith is only just beginning ’to dial in my volleyball’This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Hagen Smith, one of the most physically impressive players on the AVP Tour and, yes, the son of the great Sinjin Smith, who is perhaps the most important person in the history of beach volleyball (he only helped found the AVP and FIVB, so there is that…). We chatted a bit about Hagen’s well-known lineage, as well as: His physical recovery the last few years after a handful of surgeries That breakthrough fifth-place finish in Hermosa Beach a year ago How it was being rais...
2023-05-031h 33SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris No. 5: GOLDEN TKN; Tri Bourne, Chaim Schalk arrive, Swiss women with three Elite teamsThis is the FIFTH episode of our Road to Paris series, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the race to the 2024 Olympic Games. Just a quick one today, analyzing the moves made after the  @volleyballworld  Elite16 in Uberlandia, Brazil, including: - Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth with their second gold of the year! - Steven van de Velde and Matthew Immers playing big - Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk taking a massive fifth - Welcome back, Joana Mader and Anouk Verge-Depre! And a whole lot more. SHOOTS! ...
2023-05-0219 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterApril Mailbag! A deep dive into the mental side of beach volleyball, sports, and lifeThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our semi-monthly fan question episode that is doubling as a celebratory episode. We popped some bubble to celebrate Tri and Chaim Schalk winning their first AVP as partners, Savvy and Toni Rodriguez matching a career-best fifth at AVP New Orleans, and Travis BECOMING A DAD to Austin Zaun Mewhirter. And yes, we also answered some fan questions, including: A deep, deep dive into the mental side of sport, beach volleyball, and life Why are so many teams skipping Challenge and Elite 16 events If you can...
2023-04-261h 36SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterJake Dietrich, peaking at 34 years old, has finally discovered ”the thing that sets you apart”This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our LONGEST EPISODE IN HISTORY – by a long shot. Theo Brunner actually has a name for getting into a beach volleyball chat with Jake Dietrich: It’s called “Getting Jaked.” And we got Jaked in the best of ways, finally chatting with the man known on the YouTube chats last year as “The Beard Guy” playing with Hagen Smith. Well, now you’ll know him, as we covered a wide range of topics from: Jake Dietrich’s winding volleyball journey, one in which he has finally found hi...
2023-04-192h 17SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris No. 4: Brazil is BACK on the podium; Chase Budinger and Miles Evans have entered the chatEpisode Four of The Road to Paris, breaking down the Olympic beach volleyball race with Travis Mewhirter. After two wild weeks of  @volleyballworld  Challenge events in Itapema and Saquarema, Brazil -- as well as an  @avpbeach  in New Orleans -- we've had a ton of changes, including: - Miles Evans and Chase Budinger rebounding in a HUGE WAY - George Wanderley and Andre Loyola staying the Kings of Itapema - The Brazilian women have gone sicko mode - Terese Cannon and Sarah Sponcil are evolving - Valentina Gottardi is gett...
2023-04-1823 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterTri Bourne, Chaim Schalk, the American team built ”for the long-term”This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features the host himself, Bourne with his new partner, Chaim Schalk. The two have only played three tournaments thus far – this was recorded before the Volleyball World Itapema Challenge – and it has been an expectedly up and down journey. We chatted about their first two tournaments, in La Paz and Tepic, and a bunch else, such as: What it’s been like forming a new team between former rivals How Schalk’s and Bourne’s work ethics mirror one another, and why that will be so critical f...
2023-04-121h 06SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterZana Muno: Beach Volleyball’s ’Hooptidoodah Girl’This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Zana Muno, our most popular guest in the show’s history and one of our favorite people in the world. Muno had quite the interesting 2022 season, playing – and succeeding with – Toni Rodriguez (bronze in Coolangatta), Allie Wheeler (silver in Aguascalientes), Brandie Wilkerson (two AVP semifinals), Sarah Pavan (fifth in the Phoenix Gold Series Championships), Lauren Fendrick (fifth in AVP Hermosa), and Julia Scoles (main draw in the Maldives). And she’s right back at it, playing the King of the Court with Kerri Walsh Jennings, the La Paz C...
2023-04-051h 25SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterSam Schachter and Dan Dearing: Canada’s top team is looking ’to do some damage’ in 2023This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features our annual in-house visit with our brothers up north, Sam Schachter and Dan Dearing. The top team from Canada was in Hermosa Beach for a month-long (ish) training camp before hitting the road in La Paz, Tepic, Itapema, Saquarema, and potentially Uberlandia. Yeah, a lot of travel. We talked about that, as well as: What Dan Dearing’s first year back on the Beach Pro Tour was like The fun of building a new team again Winning the continental championships in December…in Punta Cana…in gal...
2023-03-291h 25SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad To Paris No. 3: Red Bull gives you gold medalsWelcome back, all of you Olympic beach volleyball fans! Road to Paris No. 3 is a FULL one, as: - David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden -- and now of Red Bull -- stunned Anders Mol and Christian Sorum in Tepic - The American women swept the golds in Mexico - The Austrians have reorganized - American men Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk and Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner debuted - Valentina Gottardi had her breakout moment - Yorick de Groot had his rebirth And...
2023-03-2825 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterTroy Field: From ’just trying to figure out life’ to playing with Phil DalhausserThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Troy Field, one of the most popular players on the AVP Tour, as well known for his vertical leap as he is for his ability to connect with fans both in person and on social media. It has been a wild journey for Field, going from rookie to partnering with Reid Priddy to making AVP finals with Tim Bomgren to playing a full-time year internationally with Chase Budinger to, now, playing with Phil Dalhausser. We chatted all about that, as well as: What this off-season...
2023-03-221h 46SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterSeason Preview Mailbag! Who are the players to watch in 2023? New Mikasa; Who will win AVP Miami?This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is our SEASON-PREVIEW MAILBAG! The AVP season begins THIS WEEKEND in Miami, while Volleyball World begins again in La Paz, Mexico, for a Challenge. As always, we begin our year with a fan question episode, answering: - Who will win AVP Miami? - Who are the players to watch on the AVP Tour this season? -  Is the Elite 16 and Challenge system popular amongst the players? - What are the players' thoughts on the new Mikasa? And, a...
2023-03-151h 17SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterKristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth: Beach Volleyball’s Sister ActThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth, one of the fastest-rising teams on the AVP and Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Just how fast did they rise? Less than a year ago, they had zero international points to their name. Now they’re No. 7 in the world and tops in the U.S. They were the 2022 AVP Team of the Year. And now they’re making a push for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. We chatted about their wild ride of a year, as well as: What it’s been...
2023-03-081h 26SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterHolly McPeak is always doing the workThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features an absolute legend of the sport: Holly McPeak. The fourth winningest player in beach volleyball history, McPeak is a three-time Olympian and a bronze medalist at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She also discovered a then-unknown gem named Misty May-Treanor. Now, you can hear McPeak’s voice on the broadcast for indoor, Pac-12 beach volleyball and, soon, Volleyball World. We chatted about all of that, as well as: What it was like growing up in the halcyon days of beach volleyball, with Marine Street fi...
2023-03-011h 29SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterFor Silila Tucker, ’there is no right or wrong route’ so long as he’s on the beachThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Silila Tucker, the most secret Hawaiian on the AVP Tour – so secret even Tri didn’t even know that Tucker spent a good chunk of his childhood summers on Oahu. We talked a ton about that, as well as: Tucker’s HUGE 2022 season, one that ended with a win at the Laguna Open and a third at the Huntington Beach Tour Series Tucker’s new partnership with Paul Lotman, and their plans to hit the international events this year How Tucker approached volleyball, both bea...
2023-02-151h 25SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRoad to Paris No. 2: All hail Alex Ranghieri, European women start strong, Nuss-Kloth shineThis is Episode No. 2 of The Road to Paris, a monthly Olympic Beach Volleyball breakdown hosted by Travis Mewhirter. The Doha Elite 16 marked the opening event of the Olympic qualifying process, and while it might prove to be relatively inconsequential in the long run, big moves were still made, namely by Italians Adrian Carambula and Alex Ranghieri, the European women, and Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth. Let us know what you think! This is a new series, so we're open to feedback and suggestions! PHOTO CREDITS: Volleyball World Episode No. 1: https://www.youtube...
2023-02-1022 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterDelaynie Maple, the mental fortress leading USC’s new-look 2023 teamThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Delaynie Maple, a junior at USC and one of the most talented, must-watch players in NCAA beach volleyball this upcoming 2023 season. When she was still in high school, Maple took a fifth at AVP Hermosa with Megan Kraft. At USC, she’s already competed on court one, going 36-1 as a sophomore alongside Julia Scoles. Could not recommend watching her enough. We chatted about all sorts of topics, including: How COVID made for the strangest of freshman years for Maple The role that mental toughness ha...
2023-02-081h 10SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterLexy Denaburg: UCLA’s senior leader is setting the best of examplesThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features our regular guest host, Savvy Simo, who is currently in Doha, competing in her first OLYMPIC QUALIFYING event, and Lexy Denaburg, her former partner at UCLA who is now charged with leading a deeply talented Bruins team. Denaburg is, simply, awesome. A lovely, gracious, humble 21-year-old out of Florida who you should absolutely watch at some point in the near future. Already an All-American, she is one of the most talented players in NCAA Beach Volleyball right now. We chatted about all manner of topics, including:
2023-02-011h 20SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterSeason-opening Mailbag! Why Tri split with Trevor; new beginnings with Chaim; four-man volleyballThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our FIRST MAILBAG OF THE YEAR! It was a full one, too, and Tri Bourne was firmly on the hot seat, answering all sorts of questions, including: What happened to him and Trevor Crabb? How did Trevor take the news? What aren’t Tri and Chaim Schalk playing the Doha Elite 16? What are Phil Dalhausser’s plans for the upcoming AVP season? And a whole, whole lot more. SHOOTS! *** NEW BOOK ALERT!!! Travis Mewhirter and Kent Steffes just publ...
2023-01-251h 11SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterThe secret’s out! How Carly Kan became Hawaii’s first female AVP ChampionThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is, incredibly, our first podcast IN HAWAII!! Tri Bourne took the mic on the road with him to sit down with Carly Kan, the newest AVP champ and the first woman from the state of Hawaii to win an AVP, as well as her coach, the founder and master of secret training himself, Danny Alvarez. Kan is one of many bright young female stars on the AVP, while Alvarez is one of the brightest minds in the game. Absolute gem of a podcast, ladies and gentlemen, covering...
2023-01-181h 15SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterSavvy Simo and Toni Rodriguez: Healthy, rested, rehabbed, and ready for a push to Paris 2024This episode of SANDCAST features Savvy Simo, our favorite female host, and Toni Rodriguez, her partner for this season and, at least, the next as they begin their push to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. It has been quite an off-season for Rodriguez, who suffered a season-ending knee injury at AVP New Orleans in 2022. While she rehabbed, Simo played with anyone who would, anywhere in the world. Now, they’re back together. We chatted about all sorts of fun stuff, including: AVP New Orleans, and how Rodriguez briefly wondered if she would continue playing volleyball What Rodriguez’s re...
2023-01-111h 12SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterThe Road to Paris: Everything you need to know about the Olympic Qualification CycleThe Road to Paris is a new series we're doing, with host Travis Mewhirter breaking down the Olympic race, which begins this February in Doha, Qatar. Here Mewhirter explains everything you need to know about the beach volleyball qualification process for the 2024 Olympic Games, from when it begins to when it ends to how every single one of the 24 teams can qualify for Paris 2024. What did you think about this video? It's new, so we're open to suggestions. What do you want more of? Less? Any tweaks? We'll take...
2023-01-0917 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterJaden Whitmarsh, UCLA’s Ms. Clutch, is back to lead the Bruins in 2023This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Jaden Whitmarsh, a court two defender for UCLA and one of the most clutch players in NCAA Beach Volleyball. She is also, as you may be able to gather from her last name, the daughter of Mike Whitmarsh, the 1996 silver medalist at the Atlanta Olympics. We chatted about her family, as well as: What it was like growing up in San Diego, one of the most competitive cities in the country for grassroots – and all levels, really – volleyball, both indoors and on the beach The stee...
2023-01-041h 04SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterSean P. Murray, and how the 1984 Olympic Gold Medalists changed volleyball in AmericaThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Sean P. Murray, the author of If Gold is Our Destiny: How a Team of Mavericks Came Together for Olympic Glory. The book is a deep study of the 1984 men’s Olympic volleyball team who would win gold and kick off a dynastic decade of dominance – and forever change the culture of volleyball in the United States. On this episode, we chat about: The value in looking foolish, and how Doug Beal used it to create the best team, and program, in the worl...
2022-12-281h 09SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterChristmas Mailbag: Wrapping up the 2022 season, Olympic partnerships, AVP Awards, podcast rivalryThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our always popular fan question segment, a Christmas special! Savvy Simo is typically our lovely host of these episodes, but she’s been out of town for a bit, coaching at SOB Volley Vacations and spending time down in New Orleans. So it’s just the boys, answering as many of your (nearly 100!) questions as we could, including, but certainly not limited to: Who are the new partnerships for 2023 and the Paris Olympics? Are we buying into the Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes hype? Three stop...
2022-12-211h 42SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterCarly Skjodt has hit the beach full-time, and she’s here to stayThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Carly Skjodt -- pronounced Scott -- one of the brightest rookies on the AVP Tour this season. An All-American and All-Big 10 outside hitter out of Michigan, Skjodt began playing beach as a graduate transfer for Pepperdine, learning under coach Marcio Sicoli. After a brief stint playing indoors in Portugal, she hit the beach, finishing her rookie season with a third in AVP Central Florida and is now ranked just one spot behind Canadian and AVP champion Melissa Humana-Paredes. On this episode, we chat about: What...
2022-12-141h 22SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterEd Keller: Beach Volleyball’s Encyclopedic SuperfanThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Ed Keller, the biggest superfan there is in the sport of beach volleyball. How big? Keller went to 18 tournaments this season – nine Beach Pro Tour, nine AVP… and he thinks it should have been more. Ah, well, guess he’ll have to hit more in 2023. (he will) What all this traveling has done, something he’s been doing since Sean Rosenthal was a 17-year-old kid with the “most gigantic quads you’ve ever seen” is provide Keller with one of the most unique perspectives on the sport...
2022-12-071h 28SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterPERFECT: Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson ’nail the timing’ of new partnershipThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson, one of the most fascinating – and soon to be most popular – teams on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Good friends for more than a decade, Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson have played against one another for years and years, both rising through the ranks, both being voted the best in the world at what they do, both becoming two of the most popular and recognized faces on Tour. A partnership, at some point, seemed inevitable. And now it’s here. ...
2022-11-301h 08SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterMaddison McKibbin, the trailblazer who did it all backwards and carved a new pathThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Maddison McKibbin, one of the biggest – if not the biggest, alongside his brother, Riley McKibbin – trailblazers in the world of beach volleyball content. Together, the McKibbins founded and have grown the McKibbin Brothers YouTube Channel to more than 100,000 subscribers, developing one of the biggest, most loyal, followings of any beach volleyball team in the world. On this episode, we caught up with Maddison, chatting: The absurd growth in the past five years of the McKibbin brothers How Maddison and Riley flipped the narrative of ‘...
2022-11-231h 37SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter’The Brazilian Way’ of beach volleyball, with Leandro Pinheiro and Dan WaineraichThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is an absolute blast, as we brought in a pair of our favorite Brazilians, Leandro Pinheiro (the VolleyballMag Coach of the Year) and Dan Waineraich, the man who led Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson to the Chicago finals. Brazilian coaches have become all the rage in California, and the world, really, as every Olympic podium has been influenced by a Brazilian coach since the inaugural Games in 1996 (two Brazilians made the finals for the women). We talked all about the Brazilian influence on the game, as well...
2022-11-161h 17SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterPhil Dalhausser, and The Legend of the Thin BeastThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Phil Dalhausser, one of the greatest – and some would say, THE greatest – American players of all-time. Since he and Todd Rogers won the Olympic gold medal in 2008 in Beijing, Dalhausser has been the most dominant blocker in the United States, and remains that way. We chatted all about Dalhausser’s storied career, as well as: His wild experience in the Tokyo Olympics How drastically the World Tour has changed since he made his debut in 2006 The regrets his has on his career as a player, and th...
2022-11-092h 06SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterFIVE YEARS OF SANDCAST: 261 episodes in a row, 261 more to comeLast week marked FIVE STRAIGHT YEARS OF SANDCAST! In five years, somehow, Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter haven't missed a single episode. So much has happened: - Travis made his first AVP main draw (then a bunch of international medals) - Tri battled an autoimmune disease...then became an Olympian...then a two-time Manhattan Beach Open champion - Tri had a kid, Naia Bourne, who makes many appearances on this episode - Travis got married to Delaney Knudsen, who has since won a bunch of big time matches and tournaments, including...
2022-11-021h 19SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterTim Brewster, the Chinese Bamboo Tree of the AVPThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Tim Brewster, a breakout star on the AVP this season who had career-highs in so many categories in 2022 that it’s difficult to count. For starters, he made his first main draw, won his first international medal (then added two more, and will likely add at least one more before the year is out), won his first AVP match, then another…and another…and, well, he won a whole lot of them. We talked all about Brewster’s huge season, as well as: The work he has p...
2022-10-261h 21SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterMolly Turner, taking the hard road in 2022: ’Let’s see if you can do it.’This week’s episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Molly Turner, one of the toughest, grittiest, go-get-after-it players on Tour. She had a choice this year: To play the points game and scramble around just to be directly into the main draw, or play the game to win, in which she’d begin in the qualifiers but give herself the highest ceiling possible. The result? A career-high in every single category in 2022. We chatted all about her gold medals, her wins in Seaside and Laguna, and a whole lot more, including: This seas...
2022-10-191h 12SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterTheo Brunner, America’s top blocker, is coming into his ownThis week’s episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features the man who is not only the most formidable blocker in the United States, but also the guy who is quietly the funniest guy on the AVP Tour: Theo Brunner. At 37 years old, Brunner is finally coming into his own, on and off the court: Creating a hysterical Instagram persona, delivering hilariously candid interviews for Volleyball World, while also putting together his best AVP season to date with Chaim Schalk. We chatted – and laughed – a lot on this one, covering: How he and...
2022-10-121h 34SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterSeason-ending Mailbag: How was Phoenix? Olympic partnerships; Maximizing the off-seasonThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is our semi-monthly, always-popular edition of our mailbag, where we take your fan questions and answer them alongside UCLA’s finest, and now one of USA Volleyball’s brightest, Savvy Simo. We’re calling this the season-ending mailbag, although that might be a bit of a misnomer, as the season isn’t technically over, with two more AVPs to go, in Huntington Beach and Central Florida. But, the Phoenix Championships have ended, so it’s sort of the end of what we consider the 2022 season. We chatted about quit...
2022-10-051h 36SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterJulia Scoles, the Rookie of the Year with ’so much growth’ still to doThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Julia Scoles, the VolleyballMag 2022 Rookie of the Year and one of the toughest – and also sweetest – people you’ll ever meet. Scoles had one heck of a season this year, winning a second straight NCAA Championship with USC before embarking on a wildly successful AVP campaign, making five semifinals and two finals, winning the Atlanta Gold Series alongside Geena Urango. She’d also take gold at the FISU World University Championships with good friend, Hailey Harward. And she’s just getting started. We talked...
2022-09-281h 09SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterDain Blanton, as ever, is making the most of every opportunityThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Dain Blanton, one of the most accomplished people in the sport of beach volleyball. As a player, Blanton won an Olympic gold medal, completing a Cinderella run in the 2000 Sydney Games with Eric Fonoimoana. As a broadcaster, you can hear Blanton’s voice on the AVP’s livestream, NBC – wherever volleyball needs commentary, Blanton’s there. As a coach, Blanton has led USC to two consecutive NCAA Championships and is gearing up for another run as the 2023 season approaches. We talked about ALL of that, as well as...
2022-09-211h 43SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterSophie Bukovec: Surprising herself all the way to the top of the worldThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Sophie Bukovec, one of the fastest-rising defenders in the world. Anyone following the NCAA beach volleyball system has long known Bukovec is talented, when she won three National Championships at USC alongside Sara Hughes, Kelly Claes, Allie Wheeler, Nicolette Martin, and Terese Cannon, among others. But this good? Silver medal at World Championships good? She’s even surprised herself. We chatted about that, and a whole lot more, including: How Bukovec became the first beach-only player in Canadian history How she ca...
2022-09-071h 26SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterDrinking Kona (and Maui Brew) with the CrabbsThis week’s episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is another installment of one of our most popular recurring segments: Drinking Kona (and, in this case, Maui Brew) with the Crabbs. As you may have heard, Trevor Crabb is coming off his third straight Manhattan Beach Open victory – two straight with Tri Bourne – and Taylor Crabb has put together a heck of a season alongside AVP Rookie of the Year frontrunner, Taylor Sander. So we had all the boys on to drink some beers, and chat about all things beach volleyball, including: How...
2022-08-311h 20SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterSummer Mailbag! AVP parity, Olympic favorites, trash talking, hottest teams on TourThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is our semi-monthly, and always popular, feature: Our fan question Summer Mailbag. There has been more beach volleyball than we know what to do with, certainly the most since we launched the podcast back in October of 2017. Mountains of questions ensued. As always, we thank you guys and gals so much for listening, for asking the questions that are so fun to answer. We did our best to get to as many as we could in just under an hour and a half. A few we did...
2022-08-241h 28SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterKent Steffes: It’s Winning TimeThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is an absolute treat, featuring BY FAR the most requested guest in podcast history: Kent Steffes, the most dominant player in the history of beach volleyball. In his brilliant, if not short, career, Steffes won nearly half the tournaments he played in, claiming the 1996 Olympic gold medal with Karch Kiraly, as well as four Manhattan Beach Opens. He’s a champions champion, and this episode more than delivers. Steffes and Mewhirter recently published a book, Kings of Summer: The Rise of Beach Volleyball, that both ou...
2022-08-171h 40SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterTrevor Crabb and Tri Bourne have their swagger backThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features the guarantors themselves: Trevor Crabb and Tri Bourne. Coming off one of the deepest slumps of their partnership, what did they do but guarantee a victory at AVP Fort Lauderdale -- a guarantee they backed up without so much as losing a set.  Oh, yes, we chatted about that, as well as: - Why Trevor guaranteed a win after one of their worst matches, in Espinho, Portugal - The coaching change, from Jose Loiola to Leandro Pinheiro, that impact them m...
2022-08-0337 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterMark Bucknam, and the making of AVP UncoveredThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Mark Bucknam, the producer of the upcoming and highly anticipated beach volleyball docuseries, AVP Uncovered. It debuts on Thursday night on the AVP Uncovered YouTube Channel, so be sure to check it out! On this episode, we chatted about: How AVP Uncovered wound up following Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth, Jake Gibb, and Zana Muno How Bucknam convinced his two business partners to follow the AVP around for a month with no promise of a return on their investment How the AVP Uncovered idea...
2022-07-271h 09SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterNew partners. New Tours. Welcome to beach volleyball in 2022This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features a wide-ranging look-ahead at what's to come in the 2022 beach volleyball season. We have new tours, with the AVP being bought by Bally's, and Volleyball World replacing the FIVB. We have new partnerships, on both the men's and women's side. The hosts have new goals. New mindsets. It's new everything in 2022. On this episode, we chat about: - Breaking down the new partnerships for the 2022 season - What to expect from Volleyball World this upcoming year - Why...
2022-01-2659 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterRising Canadian defender Jake MacNeil‘s life on the road is only beginningThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Mewhirter's good friend and standout Canadian defender Jake MacNeil. The two have been on the road together for nearly two months this season, and are currently filming a movie in Bulgaria.  Our chat is a wide-ranging one, discussing: - MacNeil's experience as a training partner at the Tokyo Olympic Games - A wild season in which he and Will Hoey were on the road non-stop since May - The difference between teams a the one-star level and the f...
2021-09-2948 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterSANDCAST Mailbag: A review of the Tokyo Olympic quad, and looking ahead to AVP 2021This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features our monthly fan question episode. Before we dove into the fan questions, we recapped the Tokyo Olympic quad, and Bourne's journey through it with Trevor Crabb, finishing ranked No. 11 in the world yet just shy of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic Games. We chatted about Mewhirter's five-week FIVB stretch, competing in Bulgaria, Sochi, and Bulgaria twice more. You can find a full written recap of Mewhirter's journey at VolleyballMag. And then, of course, we dove into fan questions, beginning with... ...
2021-06-161h 13SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterCanadian road dogs Will Hoey and Jake MacNeil have no exit plansThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, was recorded on the road, at the FIVB Bulgaria one-star, where Mewhirter chatted with good buds and Canadian players Will Hoey and Jake MacNeil.  Hoey and MacNeil finished fifth in the Bulgaria one-star, knocking out Mewhirter and Roberts in the final round of the qualifier. On this episode, we chat about: - How two Canadian men get into beach volleyball, and the role that hockey plays in that - Hoey's journey into beach, and how going winless at the U19 World C...
2021-05-2650 minSANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterTravis Mewhirter's volatile, adversity-filled trip to and from the Doha bubbleThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features the host, Mewhirter, discussing what life is like on the World Tour, and all the hoops players and promoters must jump through to put on a successful tournament.  In this episode, we discuss: - A crazy two weeks prior to leaving for Doha, which included an injury, delayed visas, COVID-testing issues -- the whole gamut - What it's like to play a tournament in a "bubble" - How it was for Mewhirter to compete in his first tournament s...
2021-03-031h 08SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterTri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter publish new book, Volleyball for Milkshakes!This episode of SANDCAST: Beach volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features a fun announcement from the hosts: They have co-written and published a book! Their book, Volleyball for Milkshakes, is out today! The easiest place you can find it is on Amazon, and the audio version will be out in a week or so! This episode covers, first and foremost, the book: how it came about, what it’s about, and how the podcast influenced the narrative. At the bottom of the show notes, we’ll provide the synopsis. We also answ...
2020-07-011h 02SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterTravis Mewhirter releases new beach volleyball book: We Were KingsTravis Mewhirter published his book, We Were Kings, on December 5. You can order it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble! I’ll always remember the first interview. It was September of 2016. I was sitting on my bed in my studio in Newport Beach. That bed also doubled as my office, seeing as my apartment was roughly 600 square feet and had room for a bed, kitchen, and TV, all within arm’s length of each other. On the other end of the phone was Tri Bourne – Tri Bourne! The guy I watched roof John Mayer on match point of the...
2018-12-051h 21SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis MewhirterSANDCAST Mailbag: Tri's secret to jumping high, Travis's journey into volleyballYou guys asked – literally, you did ask questions, though not specifically for an entire episode of them – and SANDCAST is delivering. This is our first “mailbag” or “Sandbag” or whatever you’d like to call it. The premise, of course, is to answer your questions, about partnerships, about skill development, about stories, about where the game is headed, about whatever it is that you’re wondering about beach volleyball. This week, we answered as many as we could in our self-imposed 30-minute time limit, and we also awarded our favorite question, or questions in this case, with a sig...
2018-05-1443 min