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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Wednesday Nov 23, 2022

Maddison McKibbin, the trailblazer who did it all backwards and carved a new path

Wednesday Nov 23, 2022

This 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 ‘win first, develop content second’ and scored big time because of it
The climate and marketplace of beach volleyball
What plans and ideas the McKibbins, now joined by younger brother Jameson McKibbin, have in store for the 2023 season

And much, much more. Such a fun episode, as always, anytime we get a Beard Brother on to talk volley, content, business, and all other kinds of random stuff.

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Nov 16, 2022

’The Brazilian Way’ of beach volleyball, with Leandro Pinheiro and Dan Waineraich

Wednesday Nov 16, 2022

This 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 as:

How so many Brazilian coaches – Jose Loiola, Marcio Sicoli, Fiapo, Leandro, Arthur Carvalho, Marcos Miranda, Gustavo Rocha, Pompilio Mercadante, etc. – ended up in California’s South Bay
What the Brazilian Way of beach volleyball entails, and why it’s so unique
The Brazilian community in California
P1440’s huge influence on the coaching landscape of beach volleyball in America

And, as always, a whole lot more.

ENJOY and, as we say in Portuguese, ate logo!

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Wednesday Nov 09, 2022

Phil Dalhausser, and The Legend of the Thin Beast

Wednesday Nov 09, 2022

This 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 the untold potential he and Sean Rosenthal could have had together
What his future looks like, both as a player and a budding businessman

And so, so, so much more. This is honestly one of the best episodes we’ve ever had on SANDCAST, as Phil completely opens up in a remarkably honest, funny, and reflective two hours.

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Nov 02, 2022

FIVE YEARS OF SANDCAST: 261 episodes in a row, 261 more to come

Wednesday Nov 02, 2022

Last 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 the USA Volleyball Queen of the Beach

- Gabby Bourne produced her own movie, and is soon appearing in one with Ben Affleck and Matt Damon (!!!)

- Our numbers have exploded, growing, on average, 30 percent per year

- The NVL came and went

- p1440 came and went

- Volleyball World became a thing

- The AVP was bought by Bally's

- And a whole, whole lot more.

We just got the full family together on this one and reflected on five years of podcasting, and the wild and surreal life changes that have come with it. Thank you all SO MUCH for being part of this wonderful journey. Cheers to five years, and cheers to five more

SHOOTS!

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Wednesday Oct 26, 2022

Tim Brewster, the Chinese Bamboo Tree of the AVP

Wednesday Oct 26, 2022

This 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 put in over these last five years, all in the name of one day hoping it would work out
The lessons he learned from April Ross
How he and Kyle Friend became such a perfect meld on the court
The magic of working with Jose Loiola for five years, and why he was able to have such a huge season

And, as always, so much more.

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Oct 19, 2022

Molly Turner, taking the hard road in 2022: ’Let’s see if you can do it.’

Wednesday Oct 19, 2022

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 season, in which she traveled more than she ever has, hitting the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour for the first time
Why she decided to begin competing internationally, and how addicting – and challenging -- the road can be
Why there should be more trash talking in women’s beach volleyball
How to channel the proper emotions on the beach volleyball court

And, as always, a whole lot more.

Enjoy our chat with Molly Turner!

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Wednesday Oct 12, 2022

Theo Brunner, America’s top blocker, is coming into his own

Wednesday Oct 12, 2022

This 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 Chaim Schalk have developed such perfect team chemistry
Why he is playing what he thinks is the best beach volleyball of his career
Who’s better: Phil Dalhausser in his prime, or Anders Mol right now?
His fourth-place finish at World Champs, and how he and Schalk can build on it

And, as always, much, much more!

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Oct 05, 2022

Season-ending Mailbag: How was Phoenix? Olympic partnerships; Maximizing the off-season

Wednesday Oct 05, 2022

This 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 quite a bit, including:

What are the partnerships looking like for Paris 2024?
How was the AVP Phoenix Gold Series Championships?
How to maximize your off-season
Who surprised us the most this season?

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Sep 28, 2022

Julia Scoles, the Rookie of the Year with ’so much growth’ still to do

Wednesday Sep 28, 2022

This 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 about all of that, as well as:

How this season became the best of her career
Gritting through the Fort Lauderdale finals, where she was sick, and the winning Atlanta just one week later
How childhood gymnastics prepared her for anything that life could throw at her
How this season changed her outlook on her beach career.

And, as always, a whole lot more.

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Sep 21, 2022

Dain Blanton, as ever, is making the most of every opportunity

Wednesday Sep 21, 2022

This 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:

The incredible success of his USC players on the AVP this season, with Tina Graudina, Hailey Harward, and Julia Scoles all winning AVP titles
Should USA Volleyball have an Olympic trials system for the upcoming 2024 Paris Games?
Should USA select its pairs, as coaches do in college?
His Olympic run with Fonoimoana, and how it was a major dose of serendipitiy that put them back together again

And, as always, so much more. Love chatting with Dain anytime we can, and you’ll love to listen in.

ENJOY!

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