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 Oct 10, 2023

Road to Paris, World Champs Edition: SIX USA teams win pool

Tuesday Oct 10, 2023

The Beach Volleyball World Championships have arrived, and we are halfway through, with six @USAVolleyball teams winning their pool: Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth, Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes, Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles, Terese Cannon and Megan Kraft, Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner, and Miles Partain and Andy Benesh. But as anyone knows: The real tournament begins Wednesday, where it's single elimination from here on forward.

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Wednesday Oct 04, 2023

Kelly Cheng and Jordan Cheng, ”get to dream together” as husband-wife, player-coach

Wednesday Oct 04, 2023

Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes are one of the best teams in the world, currently ranked No. 4 in the Olympic race, with a gold medal in Tepic, silver in Gstaad, and two AVP wins in 2023. They’re also coached by Kelly’s husband, Jordan, which has created, as you might be able to guess, an interesting dynamic, one that is both a dream and also extremely difficult. It’s working, both on the court – they are one of the top teams on the planet – and off – they are still happily married. We chatted all about their lives as a husband-wife, coach-player, as well as:

Why Jordan is the right man for the job, not just the husband for the job
How Kelly Cheng has dealt with a constant stream of criticism dating back to her college days at USC
How Kelly Cheng continues to break the mold of beach volleyball, from an aggressive on-two system to now jump-setting
Why they have built an “army” of coaches, including Gustavo Rocha and Jake Gibb

And so much more.

Super fun chat with the Cheng Family as they head down to Mexico for this week’s World Championships!

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Tuesday Oct 03, 2023

Road To Paris: Ana Patricia and Duda vs. The World

Tuesday Oct 03, 2023

Welcome 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 year

- Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk's struggles

- Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth further asserting themselves as one of the top medal contenders in beach volleyball

And a whole lot more.

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Wednesday Sep 27, 2023

Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece: The Good Stewards of The High Performance Community

Wednesday Sep 27, 2023

Laird Hamilton and Gabby Reece have built one of the most extraordinary communities in the world, as top performers in virtually all industries, from the NFL and NBA to Hollywood A-Listers to MMA, big wave surfers, and everyone in between – including volleyball – gravitate towards their home for workouts, good conversation, and downright decadent coffee. Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter took a trip up to the Laird Compound to get a little pool workout and a podcast with Laird and Gabby, chatting all things life, including:

How Laird and Gabby have adopted the mindset of being “good stewards” to their community – and why it’s the most selfish thing, in a good way, they can do
Why enthusiasm and loving what you do is the ultimate secret to success
Why “hacks” don’t work, and why doing the thing is the main thing
The importance of simplifying in an overwhelmed society

And so, so much more.

Absolute gold here, y’all.

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Wednesday Sep 20, 2023

Jon Alvarez, Volleyball Life, and ”volleyball people doing cool things for volleyball”

Wednesday Sep 20, 2023

Jon Alvarez is the founder and CEO of Volleyball Life, the leading tournament software in all of beach volleyball, running more than 3,000 events in 2023 alone – a 70 percent increase from 2022. But Volleyball Life is more than that – much more. It’s one of the top resources for college coaches to scout juniors, as it has an extensive database of nearly every junior player in the country, his or her results, rankings, points, and anything else you’d want to know. It has been fun to watch Volleyball Life take over, expand, and build a virtual monopoly in the business. The conversation extends to far more than that, however, as we chat about:

Alvarez’s career as a player, which spanned more than 30 years, and why he always looked at it as a way to make connections, not main draws
How Volleyball Life has been a vision of his since 1993, when he literally handwrote the logo he’d be using 30 years later
How Casey Patterson saved beach volleyball in 2010
The explosion of grassroots volleyball around the USA – and the numbers to prove it

And much, much more.

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Wednesday Sep 13, 2023

Trevor Crabb is always taking receipts. Now he’s literally cashing in

Wednesday Sep 13, 2023

Trevor Crabb has won more AVP tournaments than any player in the last five years. And yet…people still bet against him. And people are still being proven wrong. Crabb made good on his $500 wager that he’d beat Andy Benesh and Miles Partain the next time he and Theo Brunner played them. That next time came in the finals of AVP Chicago, which makes Crabb and Brunner tied for first in wins on the AVP this season, second in points per event in the USA Olympic race, and proving people wrong, as always.

On this episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, we chat all about those bets, as well as:

What it was like for Crabb when Bourne dumped him for Chaim Schalk
The dynamic of Bourne and Crabb’s friendship after the breakup
Why he thinks defense is “so much easier than blocking”
What this year has been like with Theo Brunner, and why they’ve been so good

And much more!

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Wednesday Sep 06, 2023

The 3X NCAA Champion Nourse Twins have ”nothing else but to be themselves”

Wednesday Sep 06, 2023

The Nourse Twins – Audrey Nourse and Nicole Nourse – are three-time NCAA Champions as starters as USC, something no other women’s program has ever done at Southern Cal. Now, as fall season gets underway, they’re looking for an unprecedented fourth consecutive National Championship. We chatted all about their success as USC, as well as:

Why they decided to flip their commitment from Stanford to USC
What the culture is like on a team that included an Olympian (Tina Graudina), AVP champions (Julia Scoles and Hailey Harward), consummate winners (Sammy Slater) and World Champions (Delaynie Maple, Megan Kraft)
The mental side of the game, and why getting a sports psychologist at age 16 has been huge for their development and success
What it was like for the NCAA Championship to come down to their court, and why it all felt so…normal

And so much more.

Super fun conversation with the Nourse Twins!

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Monday Sep 04, 2023

Road to Paris: $1M purse, Olympic bids, massive points -- a full preview of the World Championships

Monday Sep 04, 2023

The field for the 2023 Beach Pro Tour World Championships has been set! With Wednesday’s drawing of the lots, all 48 teams per gender have been placed into their respective pools. There are some good draws, some bad draws – and huge opportunities all around. On this episode of The Road to Paris, Travis Mewhirter breaks down the World Championships field, including:

Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk getting put in the pool of death
Alix Klineman and Hailey Harward’s massive opportunity
Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles with the chance to jump into the top 10 of this Olympic race
How Andy Benesh and Miles Partain can cement themselves as the top USA team

And much more.

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Wednesday Aug 30, 2023

Taylor Crabb, Taylor Sander, and ”the most satisfying victory in the world”

Wednesday Aug 30, 2023

Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander are, alas, Manhattan Beach Open champions. The world feels right, properly balanced, with Taylor Crabb on the Pier. As for Sander? It took the guy just two shots – two! – to get his name on the Pier. That’s insane.

We chat all about their win at the Manhattan Beach Open, as well as a number of other topics y’all are going to love, including:

Why Sander thought they had no chance of winning when he woke up Sunday morning
How a trash talker ruined the hopes of Hagen Smith and Logan Webber, and might just be responsible for them getting on the pier
Why Sander thinks beach volleyball is harder than indoor volleyball
Taylor Crabb’s sweet satisfaction of winning it five years after missing the swing that would have put him on the pier in 2018

And so much more.

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Wednesday Aug 23, 2023

Andy Benesh: The blocker who is helping to revive USA Beach Volleyball

Wednesday Aug 23, 2023

Andy Benesh is the most improved beach volleyball player in the world in 2023.

Entering this season with Miles Partain, Benesh was seeded third in the qualifier of a Challenge. Now? He and Partain are the No. 1 ranked team in the United States, and No. 3 in the world. His climb has been extraordinary, and exactly what USA Volleyball needed after the retirements of Jake Gibb and Phil Dalhausser. On this episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, we talk all about Benesh’s breakout season, including:

What has led to his blink-and-you-missed-it improvement in 2023
How he and Miles Partain have had at least “75 hours of debate” on their offensive and defensive strategies and vision
His breakout win at the Gstaad Elite16 – where he and Partain beat Anders Mol and Christian Sorum twice in the same tournament
The process of adding the jump-set to his game, and why being comfortable with failure has led to so much success

And much, much more.

Always a fun one with big Andy Benesh on the show.

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