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 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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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 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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Wednesday Aug 24, 2022

Summer Mailbag! AVP parity, Olympic favorites, trash talking, hottest teams on Tour

Wednesday Aug 24, 2022

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is our semi-monthly, and always popular, feature: Our fan question Summer Mailbag. There has been more beach volleyball than we know what to do with, certainly the most since we launched the podcast back in October of 2017. Mountains of questions ensued. As always, we thank you guys and gals so much for listening, for asking the questions that are so fun to answer. We did our best to get to as many as we could in just under an hour and a half. A few we did chat about were:

Why isn’t Bally’s and the AVP streaming court two? On a related note, why are the stands so small?
Talk about Kelly Cheng and Betsi Flint winning Hamburg!
Are Trevor’s guarantees as good for the team as they are the AVP?
What’s up with the tracking devices players wear on center court? Do we like them?
How good is Miles Partain?

And, as always, so much more!

ENJOY!

Photo creds: Josh Glazebrook

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Wednesday Aug 17, 2022

Kent Steffes: It’s Winning Time

Wednesday Aug 17, 2022

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is an absolute treat, featuring BY FAR the most requested guest in podcast history: Kent Steffes, the most dominant player in the history of beach volleyball. In his brilliant, if not short, career, Steffes won nearly half the tournaments he played in, claiming the 1996 Olympic gold medal with Karch Kiraly, as well as four Manhattan Beach Opens. He’s a champions champion, and this episode more than delivers.

Steffes and Mewhirter recently published a book, Kings of Summer: The Rise of Beach Volleyball, that both our guest and host would love for you to buy on Amazon. We talked a whole lot about that, as well as:

What the AVP, Bally’s, and Volleyball World could be doing to get beach volleyball back in a financially healthy state
What the winning mindset is, and how Steffes became the perennial champion he was
Why he loved working on the book so much
How massive beach volleyball was when he was a player

And so, so, so much more. You’re going to want to listen to this entire episode, we promise.

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Aug 10, 2022

Geena Urango: The newest AVP Champ who’s living life fully in the present

Wednesday Aug 10, 2022

This episode of SANDCAST features Geena Urango, one of the first guests we ever had on the podcast and the newest AVP CHAMPION! Urango and Julia Scoles won the AVP Atlanta Gold Series event, just one week after finishing second in the AVP Fort Lauderdale Pro Series. We chatted allllll about that win, as well as:

How letting go of the outcome is what ultimately led to Urango winning her first AVP
Making her first AVP final in 2015, and the long wait to finally win her first
What makes Julia Scoles so special
Why the AVP is the perfect level of commitment for her

And, as always, so much more.

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Aug 03, 2022

Trevor Crabb and Tri Bourne have their swagger back

Wednesday Aug 03, 2022

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features the guarantors themselves: Trevor Crabb and Tri Bourne. Coming off one of the deepest slumps of their partnership, what did they do but guarantee a victory at AVP Fort Lauderdale -- a guarantee they backed up without so much as losing a set.

Oh, yes, we chatted about that, as well as:

- Why Trevor guaranteed a win after one of their worst matches, in Espinho, Portugal

- The coaching change, from Jose Loiola to Leandro Pinheiro, that impact them more than expected

- What actually happened in the scuffle between John Hyden and Taylor Crabb (and Taylor Sander)

- Why Crabb and Bourne seem to thrive on a sense of urgency -- the type created by, say, guaranteeing a win

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Jul 27, 2022

Mark Bucknam, and the making of AVP Uncovered

Wednesday Jul 27, 2022

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Mark Bucknam, the producer of the upcoming and highly anticipated beach volleyball docuseries, AVP Uncovered. It debuts on Thursday night on the AVP Uncovered YouTube Channel, so be sure to check it out!

On this episode, we chatted about:

How AVP Uncovered wound up following Kristen Nuss, Taryn Kloth, Jake Gibb, and Zana Muno
How Bucknam convinced his two business partners to follow the AVP around for a month with no promise of a return on their investment
How the AVP Uncovered idea was born – and the many changes it underwent prior to the finished product
The fascinating lives of beach volleyball players off the court

And a whole lot more.

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Jul 20, 2022

Sarah Sponcil and Terese Cannon: The AVP Champions who have built the perfect team

Wednesday Jul 20, 2022

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is a special one, as it features a pair of first time AVP CHAMPS in Sarah Sponcil and Terese Cannon, who won every match en route to their first career AVP titles in Hermosa Beach. It was an absolute blast to have both of them back on, and on for the first time as a team.

We had a lot to chat about on the episode, including:

- Winning AVP Hermosa Beach

- What the post-Olympic downtime looked for Sarah Sponcil, and how she came back even better

- The pressure Terese felt when Sponcil asked her to play, and how she’s delivered

- The importance of a five-week road trip through Europe

And, as always, a ton more.

ENJOY!

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Wednesday Jul 13, 2022

Mid-season Mailbag: How is Bally’s and the AVP doing in year one?

Wednesday Jul 13, 2022

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter and, in this case, Savvy Simo, features our always-popular fan questions. It's been a wild year, with both the AVP and Volleyball World under new management, new systems, new content delivery, new everything. We had a lot of questions, and a lot to chat about.

Which is what we did, answering:

- What are our thoughts on the new AVP tier system?

- How has the AVP and Volleyball World been run so far?

- Any update on April Ross and Alix Klineman?

- What happened to the United States at the World Championships?

And a wholeeeee lot more.

ENJOY!

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