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 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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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 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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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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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 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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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