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.

Episodes

Wednesday Nov 01, 2023

Fall Mailbag! Tri Bourne on the hot seat! Why doesn’t the AVP stream on YouTube? Where’s Sponcil?

Wednesday Nov 01, 2023

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 so much more.

Thank you as always for your questions and support! We love y’all.

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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 Oct 25, 2023

DJ Klasnic is living the volleyball dream and then some

Wednesday Oct 25, 2023

DJ Klasnic is arguably the best Serbian beach volleyball player ever – the first to win a medal (in 2017 with Lazar Kolaric) and then the first to win a gold medal (in 2022 with Kolaric). Now, after six years of trying, Klasnic is alas competing on the AVP Tour. What a rookie season he had: six AVP main draws, a seventh in New Orleans, ninth in Huntington and Chicago, with a win over Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander.

When the Volleyball Magazine awards come out on Thursday, he’ll be the Rookie of the Year. We chatted all about his huge season on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, as well as:

How luck and fortune have seemed to find DJ Klasnic every step of the way on this beach volleyball journey
How Phil Dalhausser gave him the nudge he needed to try his hand on the AVP
Being a 28-year-old competing for Westcliff University, and the future of men’s collegiate beach volleyball
How his first season on the AVP surpassed all expectations

That, and so much more.

ENJOY!

Photo: Mark Rigney

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Wednesday Oct 18, 2023

Steve Obradovich, and the revival of fours beach volleyball

Wednesday Oct 18, 2023

Steve Obradovich is reviving fours beach volleyball in the United States with the Newport Beach Volleyball Invitational on October 21^st. It features a star-studded field of both players and sponsors alike, with the teams being:

Taylor Crabb, Taylor Sander, Nick Lucena and Alex Ranghieri;
Sean Rosenthal, Jake Gibb, Miles Partain, and Andy Benesh
Troy Field, Casey Patterson, Chase Frishman, and Brenden Sander
For the women, the teams are Kelly Cheng, Sarah Sponcil, Toni Rodriguez, and Emily Stockman
Betsi Flint, Alix Klineman, Carli Lloyd, Julia Scoles, and Megan Rice
Savvy Simo, Zana Muno, Carly Skjodt, Kylie Deberg, and Amy Ozee.

On this episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, we chatted all about Obradovich’s story as a player – the Bad Boy as he was known – why Obradovich is putting on this tournament, with $2,000 appearance fees for every player, and how this is a beta test for a potential fours beach volleyball league, with franchises, drafts, general managers, the whole nine.

This episode could not have been more fun.

For more information on the Newport Beach Invitational, go to nbvolleyball.com.

SHOOTS!

Photo Credit Bruce Hazelton

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Tuesday Oct 17, 2023

The Road to Paris: WORLD CHAMPIONS! And a historical weekend in Mexico

Tuesday Oct 17, 2023

Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes are the 2023 Beach Volleyball World Champions! Becoming the first @USAVolleyball team to win a World Championship gold medal since April Ross and Jen Kessy did so in 2009.

Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth added a bronze medal to the slate, becoming the first American team to win a World Championship bronze medal since Liz Masakayan and Elaine Youngs in 1999 -- which was also the same year multiple USA teams won a World Championship medal. Big weekend.

On the men's side, for the first time in history, three countries won their first World Championship medal in the same event: The Czech Republic's David Schweiner and Ondrej Perusic, Sweden's David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig, and Poland's Bartosz Losiak and Michal Bryl. Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner made history of their own, as they are now the only players in history to finish fourth multiple times (Brunner has done it thrice, Crabb twice).

All that and a whole lot more on the final World Championship recap on The Road to Paris!

SHOOTS!

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Wednesday Oct 11, 2023

Hailey Harward: Playing ”like a kid on the playground” with gratitude and joy

Wednesday Oct 11, 2023

Hailey Harward is one of the brightest young talents making her rise up both the AVP and Volleyball World rankings. A year after winning her first AVP as a rookie in Fort Lauderdale, Harward bumped her average finish on Tour to nearly a fifth, tripled her international prize money, increased her AVP prize money by 38% and, oh yes, got picked up by Alix Klineman and scooped a wild card into the Beach Volleyball World Championships.

So yes, it’s been a big year for Hailey Harward, and we chat all about it, including:

The pressure and expectations going into a sophomore season after a standout rookie season
How she and Alix Klineman partnered up
What it’s been like practicing with Alix Klineman and April Ross, two of her idols
Her mindset shift, being kinder to herself while remaining tenacious in her work ethic

And a whole lot more.

Great chat with Hailey Harward that we think you’ll enjoy!

SHOOTS!

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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.

ENJOY!

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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!

ENJOY!

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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.

SHOOTS!

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Check out our book, Volleyball for Milkshakes, written by SANDCAST hosts Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter: https://www.amazon.com/Volleyball-Milkshakes-Travis-Mewhirter/dp/B089781SHB

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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.

ENJOY!

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We now have SANDCAST MERCHANDISE!! Rock the gear of your favorite podcast today! https://www.sandcastmerch.com/

Check out our book, Volleyball for Milkshakes, written by SANDCAST hosts Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter: https://www.amazon.com/Volleyball-Milkshakes-Travis-Mewhirter/dp/B089781SHB

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