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 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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NEW BOOK ALERT!!! Travis Mewhirter and Kent Steffes just published a seminal work on the history of beach volleyball in their new book, Kings of Summer: The Rise of Beach Volleyball. Check it out on Amazon!! https://www.amazon.com/Kings-Summer-rise-beach-volleyball/dp/B0B3JHFKM7/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1WGJFWHPBGPQ2&keywords=kings+of+summer+book&qid=1658922972&sprefix=kings+of+summer+book%2Caps%2C1328&sr=8-1

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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

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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Wednesday Sep 14, 2022

Kyle Friend: ’Make volleyball easy for everyone around you’

Wednesday Sep 14, 2022

This episode of SANDCAST features My Friend, Your Friend, he’s Everybody’s Friend, he’s the one and only Kyle Friend.

He’s had a HUGE breakout season, and maybe even, as he’ll admit on the podcast, a somewhat unexpected one, with Tim Brewster. With a seventh at the Atlanta Gold Series and a fifth in Chicago – while also adding a second and a pair of thirds in three Tour Series events – Friend has had the best AVP season of his career. We chatted all about that, as well as:

How shagging balls and being a voluntary practice dummy for USA Volleyball was a boon for his career as a player
The best lesson he learned from Karch Kiraly about being a teammate
Why he believes this year has been such a breakout one for him
The benefits of surrounding yourself with the best

And, as always, a whole lot more.

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Sep 07, 2022

Sophie Bukovec: Surprising herself all the way to the top of the world

Wednesday Sep 07, 2022

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Sophie Bukovec, one of the fastest-rising defenders in the world. Anyone following the NCAA beach volleyball system has long known Bukovec is talented, when she won three National Championships at USC alongside Sara Hughes, Kelly Claes, Allie Wheeler, Nicolette Martin, and Terese Cannon, among others. But this good? Silver medal at World Championships good?

She’s even surprised herself.

We chatted about that, and a whole lot more, including:

How Bukovec became the first beach-only player in Canadian history
How she came to USC, joining that venerated recruiting class
Her decision to switch to defense, and how she and Brandie Wilkerson came to be partners
The incredible run she and Wilkerson have had in 2022.

And, as always, a whole lot more.

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Aug 31, 2022

Drinking Kona (and Maui Brew) with the Crabbs

Wednesday Aug 31, 2022

This week’s episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is another installment of one of our most popular recurring segments: Drinking Kona (and, in this case, Maui Brew) with the Crabbs.

As you may have heard, Trevor Crabb is coming off his third straight Manhattan Beach Open victory – two straight with Tri Bourne – and Taylor Crabb has put together a heck of a season alongside AVP Rookie of the Year frontrunner, Taylor Sander. So we had all the boys on to drink some beers, and chat about all things beach volleyball, including:

How a Bourne or Crabb has been in every Manhattan Beach Open final since 2015!
How a childhood of pickup games at the Outrigger Canoe Club led all of them to their incredible success thus far on the AVP Tour
What ACTUALLY happened between Taylor Crabb and John Hyden at AVP Fort Lauderdale
Taylor Crabb’s first year with Taylor Sander

And oh, so much more.

ENJOY! (we sure did)

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