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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 Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features the host himself, as Tri Bourne is, alas, after five weeks on the road, back in the United States. For now. Bourne and Trevor Crabb hit the road hard, playing in a Challenger in Turkey, Elite 16s in Ostrava and Jurmala, before slipping into World Championships, where they took ninth after forfeiting due to COVID.
Now Bourne’s back, and we recapped everything, chatting:
- Those five weeks on the road
- A strangely empty World Championships, and the dull vibe on the World Tour this year
- Bourne’s thoughts on the AVP’s new three-tiered system
- Why he often considers retirement – and why he always comes back
And, as always, much, much more.
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Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Deahna Kraft is an AVP rookie and one of dozens upon dozens of enormous talents coming out of the NCAA beach game. A four-year starter at Pepperdine, Kraft graduated as an All-American before doing a graduate year at Wisconsin as a defensive specialist. Now back on the beach, Kraft made her first AVP main draw in Muskegon, Michigan, with Allie Wheeler, where they finished third, losing only to Brazilians Larissa and Lili Maestrini. That finish guaranteed them a main draw berth into the AVP Pro Series in Hermosa Beach next week.
On this episode, we chat about:
- Her childhood, split between Hawai’i and Seattle, and how beach volleyball became involved
- Improving from a walk-on to a scholarship athlete on court one for Pepperdine
- Her big finish in Muskegon, and how she pulled herself out of a mental rut just in time
- The differences in competing on the beach in college and indoors for a major program
And, as always, so much more.
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Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Anders Mol and Christian Sorum are the No. 1 ranked beach volleyball team in the world and quite possibly the greatest team in the history of beach volleyball. Let the debate rage on.
With last weekend's victory at the Beach Volleyball World Championships, Mol and Sorum are currently holding the titles of: World Champions, Olympic Gold Medalists, European Champions (4x), and World Tour Finals Champions. It's absurd, honestly.
This is not a new episode with the Beach Volley Vikings. This is a blast from the past, when we had Mol and Sorum on SANDCAST when they were just beginning their run to the top of the world in 2018 -- a run that has yet to stop or even slow.
Enjoy this re-run with Anders Mol and Christian Sorum, where we chat about:
- Norway's TopVolley Academy
- How the 2007 World Championships in Stavanger inspired them
- What it's been like to rise to the top of the world
- Staying humble through all the success (and they're still SO HUMBLE!)
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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 Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Megan Kraft is just 19 years old, yet is already a World Champion, AVP main draw player – she recently finished a career-high third in New Orleans with Emily Stockman – and is preparing to make a run at the Paris Olympic Games with Stockman. How does a 19-year-old college sophomore, who has already won a pair of National Championships at USC, find herself in that position?
By making it look easy.
Such a fun chat on SANDCAST with Kraft and Savvy Simo. On this episode, we chat about:
- The transition from the NCAA season and going directly into both the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour, and the AVP
- How she and Emily Stockman became a team
- Competing on the biggest stages in the sport, from NCAA Championships to AVP Sundays to medal matches representing the United States
- What the rest of this year looks like for her and Stockman
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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 Jun 08, 2022
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Mark Burik and Brandon Joyner are the founders of one of the coolest companies in all of beach volleyball: @Better at Beach Volleyball . Together, they may have touched more lives in the world of beach volleyball than any two individuals, coaching, creating online programs and classes, running camps across the country, from Salt Lake City to St. Petersburg, Florida. Their work is allowing others to get Better at Beach, while also just improving the entire community as they go.
On this episode, Mewhirter, Burik, and Joyner chat about:
- How Better at Beach successfully rebranded from VolleyCamp Hermosa
- What Burik has learned in becoming a full-time entrepreneur, and why he can't go back to a typical job
- How Brandon Joyner, a Virginia Beach guy, left his steady job as a teacher and moved to California to work with Better at Beach
- How awesome it has been to see Better at Beach explode across the country, in every beach volleyball nook and cranny there is
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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 Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
For most beach volleyball players in the United States, AVP New Orleans was just the second tournament of the season. Corinne Quiggle is not most beach volleyball players. As she has done for the previous two years, Quiggle has hit the road with her new partner, Sarah Schermerhorn, already competing in tournaments in Qatar, Mexico, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, Texas, and Louisiana, flying up the rankings on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour as well as the AVP.
She has become comfortable with the immense travel required when playing full-time international and domestic, taking a last-second flight from Ostrava to New Orleans -- and still taking a seventh!
On this episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, we chat about:
- How Quiggle and Schermerhorn became a team
- Their huge success in Tlaxcala, Mexico, where they emerged from the qualifier, won pool, then battled with Spain, eventually taking a ninth
- Rising up the Volleyball World rankings, to the point that they're now in Elite 16s
- How to land a sponsor as a beach volleyball player
And, as always, much more.
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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 May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Andy Benesh is one of the brightest talents on the AVP Tour, as proven two weekends ago when he won the season-opening event of the 2022 AVP season in Austin, Texas. There’s a reason veterans and AVP champions such as Billy Allen, Nick Lucena, and Phil Dalhausser have competed with him: He’s darn good. And he’s going to be good for a long, long time to come.
On this episode with Andy Benesh, we chat about:
- What it’s like to play (and win) with Phil Dalhausser
- His momentous win at AVP Austin
- The incredible impact Nick Lucena and Billy Allen have made on his career
- His staggering rate of improvement in beach volleyball, and how he’s not even close to reaching his ceiling
And, as always, so much more.
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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 May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Katie Spieler is one of the most popular guests we’ve ever had on SANDCAST, and is one of the most beloved beach volleyball players on the AVP Tour. One of the winningest players in the history of Hawai’i beach volleyball, Spieler has won tournaments on the grass, snow, sand, dirt, and is the reigning 4 v. 4 World Champion. Now, she’s coming off an ACL tear, back to living the good life on the beach.
On this episode, we chat about:
- Her recovery from tearing her ACL at the annual Pottstown Rumble
- How Todd Rogers helped her improve even when she couldn’t move
- The new mindset with which she’s approaching the beach
- The love and gratitude she has for the game of beach volleyball
And, as always, much more.
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This episode, as always, is brought to you by Wilson Volleyball, makers of the absolute best balls in the game, hands down. You can get a 20-percent discount using our code, SANDCAST-20! https://www.wilson.com/en-us/volleyball
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 May 11, 2022
Wednesday May 11, 2022
This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features yet another promising up and coming talent on the AVP and Volleyball World Beach Pro Tours: Toni Rodriguez.
She’s a Louisiana kid, with seven years at LSU to prove it. And now she’s made the move to California, diving headfirst into the world of professional beach volleyball, hitting a pair of FIVBs with Zana Muno and AVP Austin with Savvy Simo. She’s just getting started.
On this episode, we chat about:
- What a crazy year this has been already, with trips to Australia, Panama City Beach, and Brazil on back to back to back weekends, followed by Austin
- How she and SANDCAST hostess Savvy Simo became partners
- Why she decided to move to California, and how important that has been for her career
- The state of Louisiana exploding into the beach volleyball scene
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Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Sara Hughes has known she wanted to be a professional beach volleyball player since she was 8 years old. For nearly 20 years, that’s exactly the path her life went on: tabbed by USA Volleyball’s developmental program, the first scholarship athlete on the USC beach team, National Champion, AVP Champion, Olympic favorite. Until an injury to Summer Ross kept them out of the qualification process for the Tokyo Olympics. It left Hughes in a strange spot: Not on top of the beach volleyball world.
Now she’s back again, winning a gold medal in Itapema with Kelley Kolinske, a team coached by Evie Matthews and trained by the podcast favorite Mykel Jenkins.
On this episode, we chat about:
- How Hughes and Kolinske got together, and why they’ve been such a good fit so quickly
- The refreshing aspect of starting a new team: new partner, new coach, new trainer
- The two years of struggle when Ross was out with an injury, which left Hughes without a partner and running mate for Tokyo
- How she used those two years to only get better, something we’re all witnessing now
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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