SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter

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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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Tuesday Dec 26, 2023

FINAL Road to Paris of 2023: Sharpies, Contenders, Dark Horses for the Paris Olympics

Tuesday Dec 26, 2023

This 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 been a blast starting this series. Unless there is a strong preference for another Road to Paris before the onset of the 2024 Beach Pro Tour season, this will be the last episode until the Doha Elite16 in March.

Until then, have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy New Year!

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Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter have a 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. Check it out on Amazon!

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Wednesday Dec 20, 2023

Mailbag Episode! Our thoughts on the new AVP? Olympic predictions?! Best moments of 2023

Wednesday Dec 20, 2023

This 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 you as always for submitting questions. If you want to submit or have us chat about a topic, DM Tri or Travis on Instagram and we’ll put it into the pool of questions!

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Wednesday Dec 13, 2023

Jump Higher, Hit harder, Play Better, With Volleyball Strength Coach Nathan Michaels

Wednesday Dec 13, 2023

This 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 bang for your buck exercises for beach volleyball
How to jump higher on the sand
How to open up your arm swing and hit harder
The best foods to eat prior and during gameday to stop cramping and to sustain peak performance throughout a tournament

And so much more. This one is PACKED with awesome, useful information. Less storytelling and more practicals here.

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Wednesday Dec 06, 2023

Mason Briggs: The Trailblazing Libero Who Built A 100k-plus Following

Wednesday Dec 06, 2023

This 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 around for the Steve Madden story)
Why men’s volleyball is the world’s greatest kept secret
His “pinnacle moment” being the only college player on the USA National Team’s World Championship roster
What it’s like backing up, and learning from, Erik Shoji

And so much more.

Super fun podcast with Briggs!

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Wednesday Nov 29, 2023

Daniel ”Frito” Freitas: The content machine who escaped the 9-5 to ”do fun” for a living

Wednesday Nov 29, 2023

Daniel “Frito” Freitas is one of the most prolific content creators on the AVP Tour. Ever wonder where many of those videos come from that so many players – Molly Turner, Tri Bourne, Zana Muno, Trevor Crabb, David Schweiner, Kelly Cheng, Ondrej Perusic, you name it – post with virality on their social media accounts? A large percentage of those are shot, edited, and produced by Frito, the man behind the camera for all of our World Champs coverage and for Tri Bourne’s Bourne on the Beach vlogs. He is, frankly, the man. We had him on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter to chat about his increasingly vital role in a sport dependent on content, including:

How he made the jump from 9-5 to “doing fun” for a living
How a chance meeting with NBA player Sasha Vujacic in 2014 snowballed into a career with the Los Angeles Clippers, AVP, LA Galaxy, and even the NFL Draft
How Mpu Dinani, one the AVP’s most beloved photographers, hooked him up with a gig touring with Conor McGregor
Why saying yes to virtually everything is so valuable in the early stages of a freelancing career

And so much more. Bit of an off-beat episode but such a fun one! Videographers and photographers are the lifeblood of this sport, which is based primarily on content and aesthetics. We need more Fritos (and Mpus) in the world!

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Tuesday Nov 28, 2023

Road to Paris: Dutchmen are Flying, China is Rising, Qatar is Returning, Chase and Miles Are Surging

Tuesday Nov 28, 2023

This 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 Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk, with sights set on catching Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner That, and a whole lot more!

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Wednesday Nov 22, 2023

Terese Cannon: Scrapping a six-year Olympic plan to ’go play because you like playing’

Wednesday Nov 22, 2023

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Terese Cannon, who is annually one of the world’s most improved players. Initially an indoor player for Georgetown, Cannon transferred to USC, won a handful of National Championships, and has since become one of the top blockers in the USA. A run at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with Sarah Sponcil was abruptly called off after Sponcil switched to indoor, but Cannon is now back on track with, unexpectedly, Megan Kraft, another left side blocker. We cover all of that, including:

What exactly happened between Cannon and Sponcil
How Cannon and Kraft, a pair of left-side blockers, came to play together, and the influence of Scott Davenport in that partnership
A competitive personality that molds to her partner’s, and why that’s both a good and bad thing
Why she doesn’t need the incentive of the Olympic Games to continue pursuing her goal of becoming one of the best players in the world

And a whole lot more.

Such a fun chat with T.

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Wednesday Nov 15, 2023

Seain Cook: ”An idiot who plays beach volleyball? That’s good.”

Wednesday Nov 15, 2023

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Seain Cook, one of the funniest personalities in the entire sport of beach volleyball – or just volleyball as a whole – who is also, despite what his Instagram might lead you to believe, a very, very good player. Had it not been for his own partner, Cody Caldwell, Cook would have been the 2023 Most Improved Player, after a season in which he won both the Waupaca and Laguna Beach Tour Series events and finished third at the Manhattan Beach Open.

We had, as you could guess, a hilarious conversation with Seain, covering his 2023 season, as well as:

What improvements he saw in his game from 2022 to 2023
What in the world happened in his 21-6 loss to Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner – and how Trevor added salt to the wound at 20-6
Why he is now beginning a new three-year cycle as a player
How he is almost (almost!) officially a U.S. citizen and might one day be able to compete for USA Volleyball

Lots of laughs in this one, and plenty of love taps at our good friend Jake Urrutia.

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Wednesday Nov 08, 2023

Megan Rice was always ”just one opportunity away” from her massive breakout season

Wednesday Nov 08, 2023

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Megan Rice, or Megan J. Rice, or M.J. She’s gone by a number of different names throughout her 2023 season, one in which she won the VolleyballMag Rookie of the Year. Rice was the year’s biggest breakthrough star, on both the men’s and the women’s side, exploding onto the scene at AVP Hermosa Beach, where she and Savvy Simo – on just one practice as a team – made it to the finals. She was then the AVP’s most eligible bachelorette, getting picked up by Betsi Flint, Brook Bauer, and Emily Stockman, with whom she finished in the top 10 in every tournament.

So, yes, it was a big year for Megan Rice.

We chatted all about it, as well as:

How she always felt she was just one opportunity away from a breakthrough
The value of taking a year off of volleyball before returning 100 percent committed
Why she didn’t feel any different after making the finals of AVP Hermosa
What her future looks like on the beach

And a whole lot more.

Fun chat introducing y’all to Rice!

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Tuesday Nov 07, 2023

Road To Paris: Maybe those USA partnership changes weren’t such a bad move after all

Tuesday Nov 07, 2023

This 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 after all.

That and more on this week's Road to Paris!

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