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SANDCAST is the first and leading beach volleyball podcast in the world. Hosts Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter take listeners into the world of the AVP, Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour and any other professional beach volleyball outlets, digging deep into the lives of the players both on and off the court as well as all of the top influencers in the game.
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36 minutes ago
36 minutes ago
This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Nick Lucena and Brooke Niles and the entire FSU Beach Volleyball coaching staff as they reflect on another successful season for the 'Noles. They chat about:
- How Brooke Niles and Nick Lucena have managed the husband-wife, coach-coach balance at Florida State
- Both of their transitions from elite beach volleyball players to coaches at the NCAA level
- How Brooke Niles has seen the landscape of coaching and college sports change
- What Travis Mewhirter's first year was like at FSU And a whole lot more!
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7 days ago
7 days ago
This episode of SANDCAST features Alvaro Filho, one of the most recent Brazilian greats who is now an assistant at Stetson, and Cesar Benatti, a longtime coach who was most recently an assistant at LMU with John Mayer. This is SUCH A GOOD EPISODE, as we chat about all things Brazilian beach volleyball, including:
- Why Alvaro views Emanuel Rego as one of the best players to ever play
- What made Alison Cerutt such an incredible partner
- What Benatti’s three pillars are as a coach when designing an effective practice
- How parenting has impacted their playing and coaching careers, and how coaching has changed their lens as a parent
And so, so much more. Just absolute gold all over this one.
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We are FIRED UP to announce that we've signed on for another year with Athletic Greens! Get a FREE year's supply of Vitamin D by purchasing with that link.
If you want to receive our SANDCAST weekly newsletter, the Beach Volleyball Digest, which dishes all the biggest news in beach volleyball in one quick newsletter, head over to our website and subscribe! We'd love to have ya! https://www.sandcastvolleyball.com/
Wednesday May 21, 2025
Wednesday May 21, 2025
This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Mark Paaluhi, the man behind the improbably successful Hermosa Open – and the man who extended it to a three-year deal, bringing the Hermosa Open back through 2027 at least. Exciting stuff. We chat all about that, as well as:
- Why Paaluhi felt the sport needed a professional event in Hermosa, and why it needed to be pure: a true double-elim, and a true open format
- What he learned from last year’s Hermosa Open
- The importance of grassroots marketing via getting players out on the town to market events themselves
- What so many people are getting wrong with the sport – and how the Hermosa Open is laying the groundwork to getting it right
And so much more. Awesome chat with the 2024 Man of The Year
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We are FIRED UP to announce that we've signed on for another year with Athletic Greens! Get a FREE year's supply of Vitamin D by purchasing with that link.
If you want to receive our SANDCAST weekly newsletter, the Beach Volleyball Digest, which dishes all the biggest news in beach volleyball in one quick newsletter, head over to our website and subscribe! We'd love to have ya! https://www.sandcastvolleyball.com/
Wednesday May 14, 2025
Wednesday May 14, 2025
This episode of SANDCAST features John Mayer and Billy Allen, hosts of the Coach Your Brains Out podcast as well as coaches in NCAA Beach Volleyball. Mayer is the head coach at LMU, leading the Lions to six straight WCC titles and a berth in the National Championship. Allen is an assistant at Stanford, helping the Cardinal to a single season wins record and an MPSF Championship. With the NCAA season over, they chat about:
- How to navigate the art of playing time vs. winning at all costs (hint: nobody knows)
- Billy Allen's recent entertaining run through AVP Huntington Beach with Taylor Crabb
- John Mayer reflecting on the most successful season to date with LMU - Travis Mewhirter's first season at Florida State and what he learned
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Want to get better at beach volleyball? Use our discount code, SANDCAST, and get 10 percent off all Better at Beach products!
We are FIRED UP to announce that we've signed on for another year with Athletic Greens! Get a FREE year's supply of Vitamin D by purchasing with that link.
If you want to receive our SANDCAST weekly newsletter, the Beach Volleyball Digest, which dishes all the biggest news in beach volleyball in one quick newsletter, head over to our website and subscribe! We'd love to have ya! https://www.sandcastvolleyball.com/
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Wednesday May 07, 2025
Welcome back to another solo episode of SANDCAST, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down all the happenings in the world of beach volleyball. This week, Mewhirter chats:
- TCU's historic NCAA Championship win in Gulf Shores, the first in program history and a long time coming
- This week's AVP tournament in Huntington Beach, which will decide the final two spots per gender in the 2025 AVP League
- Volleyball World's proposed rules changes, including, yes, no doubles. Yikes
- April Ross' new role with USA Volleyball, and why it's her dream job
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Want to get better at beach volleyball? Use our discount code, SANDCAST, and get 10 percent off all Better at Beach products!
We are FIRED UP to announce that we've signed on for another year with Athletic Greens! Get a FREE year's supply of Vitamin D by purchasing with that link.
If you want to receive our SANDCAST weekly newsletter, the Beach Volleyball Digest, which dishes all the biggest news in beach volleyball in one quick newsletter, head over to our website and subscribe! We'd love to have ya! https://www.sandcastvolleyball.com/
Thursday May 01, 2025
Thursday May 01, 2025
Welcome back to SANDCAST U, where Madison Fitzpatrick breaks down all things NCAA Beach Volleyball. This is an AWESOME edition, where Madison is literally on the sand of Gulf Shores, shooting our preview episode of this weekend's NCAA Championships. She chats about:
- Is this finally the time TCU takes home the first non-West Coast title in NCAA history?
- Why she thinks Stanford is the hottest team in the country at just the right time
- Will UCLA alas get back on top after watching rival USC win four straight?
- Can USC manage to make it an absurd FIVE STRAIGHT NCAA Championships?! That, and more.
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Want to get better at beach volleyball? Use our discount code, SANDCAST, and get 10 percent off all Better at Beach products!
We are FIRED UP to announce that we've signed on for another year with Athletic Greens! Get a FREE year's supply of Vitamin D by purchasing with that link.
If you want to receive our SANDCAST weekly newsletter, the Beach Volleyball Digest, which dishes all the biggest news in beach volleyball in one quick newsletter, head over to our website and subscribe! We'd love to have ya! https://www.sandcastvolleyball.com/
Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Wednesday Apr 30, 2025
Welcome back to another solo episode of SANDCAST, where Travis Mewhirter recaps a wild weekend, and previews a hectic one to come, with the NCAA Championships descending upon Gulf Shores again. Meanwhile, the AVP League had two more tickets punched, and the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour is hereby renamed the Lucky Loser Tour.
Mewhirter chats about:
- How Kristen Nuss simply wills gold medals into existence sometimes
- James Shaw and Chaim Schalk demolishing folks to clinch their AVP League bid
- The wild run of Lexy Denaburg and Julia Scoles into the AVP League
- How the new Elite16 format can be changed for the better instead of being the Lucky Loser Tour
And, per usual, more
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Get 20 PERCENT off all Wilson products with our code, sandcastpod-20. https://www.wilson.com/en-us/volleyball
Get 10 PERCENT OFF VBTV using our discount code, SANDCAST10
Want to get better at beach volleyball? Use our discount code, SANDCAST, and get 10 percent off all Better at Beach products!
We are FIRED UP to announce that we've signed on for another year with Athletic Greens! Get a FREE year's supply of Vitamin D by purchasing with that link.
If you want to receive our SANDCAST weekly newsletter, the Beach Volleyball Digest, which dishes all the biggest news in beach volleyball in one quick newsletter, head over to our website and subscribe! We'd love to have ya! https://www.sandcastvolleyball.com/
Thursday Apr 24, 2025
Thursday Apr 24, 2025
Welcome back to SANDCAST U, where Madison Fitzpatrick talks all things NCAA Beach Volleyball. In this episode, she chats about the end of the regular season, which she thinks is the wildest NCAA Beach Volleyball regular season she's ever seen. She chats about the regular season, and previews the upcoming:
- MPSF Conference Tournament, which includes Cal, Stanford, USC, UCLA, and more
- Why Florida State, Texas and LSU are in an absolute brawl in the CCSA, where the 'Noles traditionally reign supreme
- How LMU can -- and is expected to -- continue dominating the WCC
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We are FIRED UP to announce that we've signed on for another year with Athletic Greens! Get a FREE year's supply of Vitamin D by purchasing with that link.
If you want to receive our SANDCAST weekly newsletter, the Beach Volleyball Digest, which dishes all the biggest news in beach volleyball in one quick newsletter, head over to our website and subscribe! We'd love to have ya! https://www.sandcastvolleyball.com/
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
This episode of SANDCAST features Silila Tucker, a longtime professional on the AVP Tour who chats with Tri Bourne about the development of yet another new beach volleyball league called the Community Circuit, and it's one you can certainly get behind. Fun development from Lila announced on this one, as well as chats about:
- How the 15-15-15 style of the AVP League matches changes things
- How to develop mental toughness in beach volleyball
- Why Lila is obsessed with golf as a tool for mental toughness training
- What makes Phil Dalhausser a legend of the game, beyond his obvious accolades
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We are FIRED UP to announce that we've signed on for another year with Athletic Greens! Get a FREE year's supply of Vitamin D by purchasing with that link.
If you want to receive our SANDCAST weekly newsletter, the Beach Volleyball Digest, which dishes all the biggest news in beach volleyball in one quick newsletter, head over to our website and subscribe! We'd love to have ya! https://www.sandcastvolleyball.com/
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Wednesday Apr 16, 2025
Welcome back to another SOLO EPISODE of SANDCAST, where Travis Mewhirter provides a comprehensive overview of a wild weekend in the world of beach volleyball, breaking down the AVP League qualifier, the Saquarema Elite16, and the Cal Poly Center of Effort Challenge. Namely, he chats:
- The surprise success of Corinne Quiggle and Megan Rice
- The more surprising success of Hagen Smith and Logan Webber
- The puzzling decision of the AVP not to give Kelly Cheng an injury sub for Sara Hughes, so she'll have to qualify via qualifiers
- Anders Mol and Christian Sorum returning to the Beach Pro Tour in style And a bit more!
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Want to get better at beach volleyball? Use our discount code, SANDCAST, and get 10 percent off all Better at Beach products!
We are FIRED UP to announce that we've signed on for another year with Athletic Greens! Get a FREE year's supply of Vitamin D by purchasing with that link.
If you want to receive our SANDCAST weekly newsletter, the Beach Volleyball Digest, which dishes all the biggest news in beach volleyball in one quick newsletter, head over to our website and subscribe! We'd love to have ya! https://www.sandcastvolleyball.com/