GODS to GHOSTS Volleyball
108 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGODS to GHOSTS Volleyball is dedicated to commemorating and preserving the history of the sport. It is our mission to provide a medium in which the legendary players, coaches, characters, and instrumental figures of the sport from the 1950's through today can be acknowledged and remembered for their transcendent talent, colorful personalities, and contributions to the sport.
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Episodes
Al Scates - Part 1
April 09, 2020 03:00 - 39 minutes - 26.8 MBAl Scates Part 1 Interview: The Beginning. Coach Scates discusses: - His Early years growing up in his family with a truck driver dad who was an alcoholic and how it impacted him as a child and for the rest of his life, his start in the sport of volleyball, seeing Gene Selznick for the first time at State Beach, how amazing Gene was as a player and one-of-a kind personality and the entourage he drew, playing with Sharon Peterson in a mixed indoor tournament at Santa Monica Col...
Greg Lee - Part 3
April 07, 2020 03:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBInterview with Greg Lee - Part 3 Greg discusses: Winning the first Beach World Championship at State Beach alongside partner Jim Menges in 1976 over the team of Ron Von Hagen & Tom Chamales, (including a monumental rally in which the ball crossed the net 16 times until Menges collapsed in the sand of exhaustion, the lightning and thunder exploding intermittently in the background while Chamales was crushing balls STRAIGHT down in sync with the weather, and the after party at the Elks Cl...
Greg Lee - Part 2
March 24, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBGreg Lee Interview - Part 2 Greg discusses: His first trip in 1970 to Sorrento Beach in the spring as a young kid at UCLA during a "June Gloom" day and meeting Ron Von Hagen, Tom Chamales, and Jim Menges by the Sorrento wall when the beach was empty except for them on that day, and how those 3 players (aside from his brother Jon) shaped his volleyball career...., His classic memories of seeing Bob Vogelsang at the beach doing things only Vogie could do, an invaluable lesson he learned f...
Greg Lee - Part 1
March 21, 2020 02:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MBInterview with Greg Lee - Part 1 Greg discusses: His youth growing up as the youngest of 3 brothers in Reseda, California and the pummeling he took from his BIG brothers Chris, and Jon, playing high school basketball for his dad and Coach Lonnie Lee where he became the 2 x LA City high school basketball player of the year, being recruited by legendary UCLA Bruin coach John Wooden, , his recollection of playing for coach Wooden and winning 2 NCAA Championships in '72 & '73 alongside his dea...
Jim Menges - Part 2
March 09, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBInterview with Jim Menges - Part 2 ( This Interview took place on August 28th, 2018) Jim discusses: The invaluable lessons he learned from the legendary Ron Von Hagen, his 3 most memorable wins, an EPIC rally he and Greg Lee had against Ron Von Hagen and Tom Chamales at the '76 World Championships at State Beach when the ball crossed the net 13 TIMES, a match against Kirk Kilgour and Doug Dunlap when they were absolutely crushing balls, the best hitters he faced during his career, the b...
Jim Menges - Part 1
March 06, 2020 20:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBInterview with Jim Menges - Part 1 (This interview was conducted on Aug 28th, 2018) Jim Discusses: Playing high school football for legendary coach Don Steere at Santa Monica high, his start in the sport alongside his SAMO friends Randy Niles, and Tom Chamales in the summer of '69 at Sorrento Beach, how amazing the beach scene was at Sorrento, with legends Ron Von Hagen and Ron Lang holding A court all day, everyday, meeting his future partner Greg Lee in 1970, losing 8 - 0 to Lang the fi...
Bill Imwalle - Part 2
March 02, 2020 04:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBInterview with Bill Imwalle - Part 2. Bill discusses: His most memorable wins on the beach, the partners he played with on the beach ( Matt Gage, Bobby Jackson, and Phil Anderson, to name a few), his recollection of the other significant competitors he played against or with in the 70's: Ron Lang, Rose Duncan, Fred Zuelich, Gary Hooper, Captain Buzzard Swarts, Skip Allen, and Mike Carey, the surreal experience he had during the '92 USVBA Men's 45 Masters indoor tournament, where he ...
Bill Imwalle - Part 1
February 28, 2020 21:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBInterview with Bill Imwalle - Part 1. Bill discusses: How he got his start in the sport on the beach in Santa Cruz, his time competing collegiality indoors for the Long Beach State 49ers, his college teammates, some of the BEST players he competed against at the collegiate level, playing in beach opens for the first time with good friend, Matt Gage, and what it was like playing against some of the greatest beach players to ever play... Support the show