SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter
373 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 131 ratingsSANDCAST 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 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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Andy Benesh: The blocker who is helping to revive USA Beach Volleyball
August 23, 2023 16:23 - 1 hour - 156 MBAndy Benesh is the most improved beach volleyball player in the world in 2023. Entering this season with Miles Partain, Benesh was seeded third in the qualifier of a Challenge. Now? He and Partain are the No. 1 ranked team in the United States, and No. 3 in the world. His climb has been extraordinary, and exactly what USA Volleyball needed after the retirements of Jake Gibb and Phil Dalhausser. On this episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, we talk all a...
Road to Paris No. 11: If you’re not jump-setting, are you even trying?
August 22, 2023 16:03 - 20 minutes - 38.4 MBThis episode of the Road to Paris follows the Hamburg Elite16, an event in which every single men’s medalist – Sweden’s David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig, Italy’s Paolo Nicolai and Sam Cottafava, Norway’s Anders Mol and Christian Sorum – has added the jump-set to their offense, not to mention fifth-place finishers and master jump-setters Miles Partain and Andy Benesh. The women’s side is a touch different, as world No. 1 Ana Patricia Silva and Duda Lisboa need no trickery, nor do silver medali...
Beach Volleyball Mailbag: What’s up with the AVP’s streaming? Can anyone stop Benesh and Partain? Is Klineman coming back?
August 16, 2023 14:11 - 1 hour - 151 MBWhat’s up with the AVP’s streaming? Is Alix Klineman making a run at the Olympics? Are Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes on a slump? (if so, I’d like to slump like them). Can ANYONE stop Miles Partain and Andy Benesh? These are but a small sampling of the questions we tackled on this week’s SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball With Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, as well as Savvy Simo. AVP Atlanta seemed to be a tipping point for the fans, as more than 60 percent of our record-setting number of questions ...
Joe Worsley, Gage Worsley, and the explosion of Out of System Volleyball
August 09, 2023 15:14 - 2 hours - 232 MBOut of System Volleyball is one of the fastest-rising, most viral digital media brands in the volleyball space. Joe Worsley and Gage Worsley charged onto the volleyball media scene in style, winning the 2020 Waupaca Boatride two weeks after launching Out of System – and just hours after learning how autofocus worked on their cameras. Since, they’ve exploded, adding all-world setter Micah Ma’a to the team. When it is the Worsleys and Ma’a together, they have yet to drop a single set in grass ...
Brooke Niles: Building Florida State’s beach volleyball powerhouse as ”a family that works hard”
August 02, 2023 14:09 - 1 hour - 153 MBBrooke Niles is the longtime beach volleyball coach at Florida State University, heading into her ninth year at the helm. She’s also one of the most successful coaches in NCAA Beach Volleyball history, taking the Seminoles to the NCAA Championship every single year it has existed, something no coach in the country can claim. She’s helped produce professionals such as AVP champions in Jace Pardon, Macy Jerger, and Alaina Chacon, as well as AVP mainstays in Katie Horton, Brook Bauer, and Maddi...
Road to Paris No. 10: Bend the Knee to Mel and Brandie -- the real Queens of Canada
August 01, 2023 14:56 - 28 minutes - 52.2 MBMelissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson should be crowned the real queens of Canada after their GOLD MEDAL at home in the Montreal Elite16. They were phenomenal all weekend long, surviving one three-setter after another – against Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes, Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth, Xinyi Xia and Chen Xue, Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles – to win their second gold of the season. On this episode of The Road to Paris, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the beach volleyball Olympic race,...
JD Hamilton: The remarkable story of an AVP dream eight years in the making
July 26, 2023 14:32 - 1 hour - 161 MBJD Hamilton has had one of the most extraordinary journeys onto the AVP Tour of anyone who has qualified in recent memory. Long one of the nation’s top grassroots players, winning every kind of tournament in any sort of format in any state or city or town you can imagine, one major feat eluded Hamilton: Qualifying on the AVP Tour. In Virginia Beach with Travis Mewhirter, he alas did it, qualifying for the Hermosa Beach Pro Series. We recorded this episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with ...
Chase Frishman is taking flight
July 19, 2023 11:41 - 1 hour - 152 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Chase Frishman. Long one of the most exciting defenders on the AVP Tour – and he won the 2016 AVP Rookie of the Year – Frishman has found a bigger, more purposeful use for his talents with the founding of Flight School Volleyball, a series of camps and clinics around the USA, from Idaho to Pennsylvania to Montana and everywhere in between. We chat all about the big year he's having on the AVP, as well a...
Road to Paris, Alaska Special: FOREVER TREVOR
July 17, 2023 20:18 - 16 minutes - 29.9 MBThis is a special edition of the Road to Paris, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the Olympic beach volleyball race to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Mewhirter is in Ketchikan, Alaska with the Knudsen fam, catching salmon and eating nothing but salmon. He made a deal with himself: He’d only do a Road to Paris if an American team won a gold medal at the Volleyball World Espinho Challenge…which is exactly what Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner did! So Mewhirter did what he always does, breaking do...
How Scott Davenport became the most sought-out volleyball coach in America
July 12, 2023 13:42 - 1 hour - 164 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Scott Davenport, the man who is arguably the most sought-out beach volleyball coach in America. Since stopping playing on the AVP Tour around 2006, Davenport has built a lengthy list of athletes on his roster, including Nick Lucena, Matt Fuerbringer, Casey Patterson, Theo Brunner, Chaim Schalk, Emily Stockman, Sarah Sponcil, Terese Cannon, Troy Field, Evan Cory, Megan Kraft, Zana Muno – shall the list g...
Road to Paris No. 8: ’Americans don’t take well to losing’
July 11, 2023 16:00 - 22 minutes - 41.2 MBThis is episode No. 8 of The Road to Paris, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the race to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. This episode follows the @volleyballworld Gstaad Elite16, where Andy Benesh and Miles Partain just won perhaps the most significant gold medal since Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser won gold at the Beijing Olympic Games. That's not all, either: Twice, they topped Anders Mol and Christian Sorum. Meanwhile... - Kelly Cheng and Sara Hughes took another silver medal and a co...
Tri Bourne, Travis Mewhirter, and the Playbook Of Champions
July 05, 2023 14:01 - 50 minutes - 91.8 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is a special one, as it is the launch of our new book, Playbook of Champions: The habits, routines, and stories of Olympians, Champions, and world-class athletes. If you listen to the show – which, if you’re reading this, then you are – then this is the perfect book for you, as it is a distillation of the best golden nuggets from our first five years of the podcast. You can buy the book on Amazon! We whittled...
Dain Blanton, USC Beach Volleyball, and the building of an NCAA dynasty
June 28, 2023 15:41 - 1 hour - 190 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Dain Blanton, the head coach of the USC Beach Volleyball team and the man who has built the biggest dynasty in all of college sports right now. Despite losing 12 players from last year’s NCAA Championship-winning team, Blanton rebuilt in a hurry, winning a third straight NCAA title this past May. Indeed, life is good to be Blanton, and it’s good to be a USC Trojan. We chatted all about this year’s run, a...
Brook Bauer: ”If you don’t dream big, what’s the point?”
June 21, 2023 15:26 - 1 hour - 154 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Brook Bauer, one of dozens of bright young talents emerging on the AVP and Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. After a successful undergraduate career at Pepperdine, Bauer finished at Florida State, where she went 29-12 on court one. After a brief, three-month hiatus in which she pursued a full-time job putting her MBA to use, Bauer quit, and is now fully invested in a career on the beach. We chatted about...
Road to Paris No. 7: Aussie Aussie Aussie! GOLD GOLD GOLD!
June 20, 2023 14:40 - 25 minutes - 46.4 MBThis is the seventh episode of the Road to Paris, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the Olympic beach volleyball race for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. We also have our first guest appearance from Australian Olympian and Volleyball World commentator Damien Schumann, who provides a little background on the gold medalists. This episode follows the @BeachVolleyballWorld Jurmala Challenge, where Australians Zach Schubert and Thomas Hodges won gold, and Brazilians George Wanderley and Andre Lo...
Mailbag Episode! What’s up with the Taylors? Alison to the AVP? New partnerships everywhere!
June 14, 2023 15:25 - 1 hour - 151 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our always popular, semi-monthly mailbag episode, where our lovely co-host, Savvy Simo, moderates as we get through as many of your questions as we can! This was, per usual, a fun one, including chats on: Are Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander still making an Olympic run? Is Alison playing on the AVP full-time? What happened to Logan Webber and Evan Cory, Hagen Smith and Bill Kolinske, and how does Troy Field f...
Riley McKibbin and Carli Lloyd: The All-American volleyball couple living the life of athlete-parent
June 07, 2023 14:56 - 1 hour - 143 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features a first in many ways. In Carli Lloyd, we have one of the first indoors-only athletes to come on the show – although that is set to change this summer, when Lloyd takes to the beach and the AVP Tour. In Riley McKibbin and Lloyd, side by side on the blue couch, we also have the first couple we’ve had on (aside from the hosts and our own wives). It was, as you would expect, a treat, as Lloyd, an Olympic br...
Road To Paris No. 6: USA makes massive moves in Ostrava
June 06, 2023 14:55 - 26 minutes - 48.8 MBThis is Episode Six of The Road to Paris, breaking down the Olympic beach volleyball race with Travis Mewhirter. After a month off of @volleyballworld events, the world returned to one of the coolest venues in the sport: Ostrava, Czech Republic, where an extensive defunct industrial area has been converted into a beach volleyball venue. It's awesome. And apparently Americans love it, as it was a MASSIVE weekend for the USA, including: - Terese Cannon and Sarah Sponcil jumping up to No. 5 in...
April Ross: The Olympic gold medalist who is onto the most important role: Mom
May 31, 2023 12:51 - 1 hour - 184 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features April Ross, one of our favorite people in the world, one of the greatest players of all time, and now: A MOM TO BE! As parents ourselves now, we’re stoked for April and the new season of life she’s on. We talked about the full gamut of topics, including: What she’s been up to, under the radar, for the past two years How she became the coach for Betsi Flint and Julia Scoles, and still occasionally helps...
Alice Zeimann: The New Zealand ’mid-major’ seeking to prove herself
May 24, 2023 14:36 - 1 hour - 168 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is an absolute treat, featuring Alice Zeimann, the blocking half of the top pair in New Zealand. If you haven’t heard of Zeimann and her partner, Shaunna Polley, you will soon. They are currently the No. 31-ranked team in the world, with a win over Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth in last fall’s Torquay Elite16. An injury to Polley has limited their competition this season, but when they return, rest assured, they’l...
Sarah Pavan is far from retired. She’s ”chasing peace”
May 18, 2023 03:26 - 1 hour - 179 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Sarah Pavan, the most decorated beach volleyball player in Canada history, with a World Championship (2019), Commonwealth Games gold medal, Team of the Year (2019), three-time Blocker of the Year, and a pair of Olympic appearances to her name. This was such a fun conversation with Pavan as she nears the twilight of her career, discussing: The stark reality of sport, and how the greats just fade away wh...
Miles Partain: Taking his ’spark from God’ and fanning it into flame
May 17, 2023 14:58 - 1 hour - 183 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, may be the most anticipated episode since we had Kent Steffes on last summer. Finally, in the studio this week, is Miles Partain, the young jedi who is returning the force to USA Volleyball. Miles is easily one of the most curious people we’ve ever met, and that curiosity has helped him develop into the most precocious and promising talent of his generation. Not that he’d tell you that. He’s as humble as can be,...
Hagen Smith is only just beginning ’to dial in my volleyball’
May 03, 2023 14:17 - 1 hour - 171 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Hagen Smith, one of the most physically impressive players on the AVP Tour and, yes, the son of the great Sinjin Smith, who is perhaps the most important person in the history of beach volleyball (he only helped found the AVP and FIVB, so there is that…). We chatted a bit about Hagen’s well-known lineage, as well as: His physical recovery the last few years after a handful of surgeries That breakthrou...
Road to Paris No. 5: GOLDEN TKN; Tri Bourne, Chaim Schalk arrive, Swiss women with three Elite teams
May 02, 2023 13:55 - 19 minutes - 36.1 MBThis is the FIFTH episode of our Road to Paris series, where Travis Mewhirter breaks down the race to the 2024 Olympic Games. Just a quick one today, analyzing the moves made after the @volleyballworld Elite16 in Uberlandia, Brazil, including: - Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth with their second gold of the year! - Steven van de Velde and Matthew Immers playing big - Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk taking a massive fifth - Welcome back, Joana Mader and Anouk Verge-Depre! And a whole lot more....
April Mailbag! A deep dive into the mental side of beach volleyball, sports, and life
April 26, 2023 14:40 - 1 hour - 176 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our semi-monthly fan question episode that is doubling as a celebratory episode. We popped some bubble to celebrate Tri and Chaim Schalk winning their first AVP as partners, Savvy and Toni Rodriguez matching a career-best fifth at AVP New Orleans, and Travis BECOMING A DAD to Austin Zaun Mewhirter. And yes, we also answered some fan questions, including: A deep, deep dive into the mental side of sport, beach ...
Jake Dietrich, peaking at 34 years old, has finally discovered ”the thing that sets you apart”
April 19, 2023 15:48 - 2 hours - 251 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our LONGEST EPISODE IN HISTORY – by a long shot. Theo Brunner actually has a name for getting into a beach volleyball chat with Jake Dietrich: It’s called “Getting Jaked.” And we got Jaked in the best of ways, finally chatting with the man known on the YouTube chats last year as “The Beard Guy” playing with Hagen Smith. Well, now you’ll know him, as we covered a wide range of topics from: Jake Dietrich’s wind...
Road to Paris No. 4: Brazil is BACK on the podium; Chase Budinger and Miles Evans have entered the chat
April 18, 2023 14:17 - 23 minutes - 43.5 MBEpisode Four of The Road to Paris, breaking down the Olympic beach volleyball race with Travis Mewhirter. After two wild weeks of @volleyballworld Challenge events in Itapema and Saquarema, Brazil -- as well as an @avpbeach in New Orleans -- we've had a ton of changes, including: - Miles Evans and Chase Budinger rebounding in a HUGE WAY - George Wanderley and Andre Loyola staying the Kings of Itapema - The Brazilian women have gone sicko mode - Terese Cannon and Sarah Sponcil are evo...
Tri Bourne, Chaim Schalk, the American team built ”for the long-term”
April 12, 2023 14:15 - 1 hour - 122 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features the host himself, Bourne with his new partner, Chaim Schalk. The two have only played three tournaments thus far – this was recorded before the Volleyball World Itapema Challenge – and it has been an expectedly up and down journey. We chatted about their first two tournaments, in La Paz and Tepic, and a bunch else, such as: What it’s been like forming a new team between former rivals How Schalk’s and ...
Zana Muno: Beach Volleyball’s ’Hooptidoodah Girl’
April 05, 2023 14:41 - 1 hour - 157 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Zana Muno, our most popular guest in the show’s history and one of our favorite people in the world. Muno had quite the interesting 2022 season, playing – and succeeding with – Toni Rodriguez (bronze in Coolangatta), Allie Wheeler (silver in Aguascalientes), Brandie Wilkerson (two AVP semifinals), Sarah Pavan (fifth in the Phoenix Gold Series Championships), Lauren Fendrick (fifth in AVP Hermosa), and J...
Sam Schachter and Dan Dearing: Canada’s top team is looking ’to do some damage’ in 2023
March 29, 2023 15:22 - 1 hour - 157 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features our annual in-house visit with our brothers up north, Sam Schachter and Dan Dearing. The top team from Canada was in Hermosa Beach for a month-long (ish) training camp before hitting the road in La Paz, Tepic, Itapema, Saquarema, and potentially Uberlandia. Yeah, a lot of travel. We talked about that, as well as: What Dan Dearing’s first year back on the Beach Pro Tour was like The fun of building a ne...
Road To Paris No. 3: Red Bull gives you gold medals
March 28, 2023 14:46 - 25 minutes - 47.2 MBWelcome back, all of you Olympic beach volleyball fans! Road to Paris No. 3 is a FULL one, as: - David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig of Sweden -- and now of Red Bull -- stunned Anders Mol and Christian Sorum in Tepic - The American women swept the golds in Mexico - The Austrians have reorganized - American men Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk and Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner debuted - Valentina Gottardi had her breakout moment - Yorick de Groot had his rebirth And so, so, so much more. Absolu...
Troy Field: From ’just trying to figure out life’ to playing with Phil Dalhausser
March 22, 2023 15:34 - 1 hour - 195 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Troy Field, one of the most popular players on the AVP Tour, as well known for his vertical leap as he is for his ability to connect with fans both in person and on social media. It has been a wild journey for Field, going from rookie to partnering with Reid Priddy to making AVP finals with Tim Bomgren to playing a full-time year internationally with Chase Budinger to, now, playing with Phil Dalhausser....
Season Preview Mailbag! Who are the players to watch in 2023? New Mikasa; Who will win AVP Miami?
March 15, 2023 12:27 - 1 hour - 142 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is our SEASON-PREVIEW MAILBAG! The AVP season begins THIS WEEKEND in Miami, while Volleyball World begins again in La Paz, Mexico, for a Challenge. As always, we begin our year with a fan question episode, answering: - Who will win AVP Miami? - Who are the players to watch on the AVP Tour this season? - Is the Elite 16 and Challenge system popular amongst the players? - What are the players' thoughts on the...
Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth: Beach Volleyball’s Sister Act
March 08, 2023 16:32 - 1 hour - 158 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth, one of the fastest-rising teams on the AVP and Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Just how fast did they rise? Less than a year ago, they had zero international points to their name. Now they’re No. 7 in the world and tops in the U.S. They were the 2022 AVP Team of the Year. And now they’re making a push for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. We chatted about their wild ride of a y...
Holly McPeak is always doing the work
March 01, 2023 17:11 - 1 hour - 165 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features an absolute legend of the sport: Holly McPeak. The fourth winningest player in beach volleyball history, McPeak is a three-time Olympian and a bronze medalist at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. She also discovered a then-unknown gem named Misty May-Treanor. Now, you can hear McPeak’s voice on the broadcast for indoor, Pac-12 beach volleyball and, soon, Volleyball World. We chatted about all of...
Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander: The most exciting team on the AVP is back in 2023
February 22, 2023 15:54 - 1 hour - 172 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features one of our most requested duos: Taylor Crabb and Taylor Sander. Fresh off a rejuvenating off-season, Crabb and Sander are looking to follow up on a phenomenal first year as partners, one in which they made five finals and won two events, including the Phoenix Gold Series Championships. We chatted about all manner of topics, including: Why Taylor Sander’s rookie season was historically good, despite wha...
For Silila Tucker, ’there is no right or wrong route’ so long as he’s on the beach
February 15, 2023 16:46 - 1 hour - 156 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Silila Tucker, the most secret Hawaiian on the AVP Tour – so secret even Tri didn’t even know that Tucker spent a good chunk of his childhood summers on Oahu. We talked a ton about that, as well as: Tucker’s HUGE 2022 season, one that ended with a win at the Laguna Open and a third at the Huntington Beach Tour Series Tucker’s new partnership with Paul Lotman, and their plans to hit the international e...
Road to Paris No. 2: All hail Alex Ranghieri, European women start strong, Nuss-Kloth shine
February 10, 2023 17:01 - 22 minutes - 41.6 MBThis is Episode No. 2 of The Road to Paris, a monthly Olympic Beach Volleyball breakdown hosted by Travis Mewhirter. The Doha Elite 16 marked the opening event of the Olympic qualifying process, and while it might prove to be relatively inconsequential in the long run, big moves were still made, namely by Italians Adrian Carambula and Alex Ranghieri, the European women, and Kristen Nuss and Taryn Kloth. Let us know what you think! This is a new series, so we're open to feedback and suggest...
Delaynie Maple, the mental fortress leading USC’s new-look 2023 team
February 08, 2023 16:01 - 1 hour - 129 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Delaynie Maple, a junior at USC and one of the most talented, must-watch players in NCAA beach volleyball this upcoming 2023 season. When she was still in high school, Maple took a fifth at AVP Hermosa with Megan Kraft. At USC, she’s already competed on court one, going 36-1 as a sophomore alongside Julia Scoles. Could not recommend watching her enough. We chatted about all sorts of topics, including: ...
Lexy Denaburg: UCLA’s senior leader is setting the best of examples
February 01, 2023 14:19 - 1 hour - 148 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features our regular guest host, Savvy Simo, who is currently in Doha, competing in her first OLYMPIC QUALIFYING event, and Lexy Denaburg, her former partner at UCLA who is now charged with leading a deeply talented Bruins team. Denaburg is, simply, awesome. A lovely, gracious, humble 21-year-old out of Florida who you should absolutely watch at some point in the near future. Already an All-American, she is one o...
Season-opening Mailbag! Why Tri split with Trevor; new beginnings with Chaim; four-man volleyball
January 25, 2023 15:49 - 1 hour - 131 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our FIRST MAILBAG OF THE YEAR! It was a full one, too, and Tri Bourne was firmly on the hot seat, answering all sorts of questions, including: What happened to him and Trevor Crabb? How did Trevor take the news? What aren’t Tri and Chaim Schalk playing the Doha Elite 16? What are Phil Dalhausser’s plans for the upcoming AVP season? And a whole, whole lot more. SHOOTS! *** NEW BOOK ALERT!!! Travis Mewhi...
The secret’s out! How Carly Kan became Hawaii’s first female AVP Champion
January 18, 2023 16:27 - 1 hour - 139 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is, incredibly, our first podcast IN HAWAII!! Tri Bourne took the mic on the road with him to sit down with Carly Kan, the newest AVP champ and the first woman from the state of Hawaii to win an AVP, as well as her coach, the founder and master of secret training himself, Danny Alvarez. Kan is one of many bright young female stars on the AVP, while Alvarez is one of the brightest minds in the game. Absolute gem o...
Savvy Simo and Toni Rodriguez: Healthy, rested, rehabbed, and ready for a push to Paris 2024
January 11, 2023 16:52 - 1 hour - 133 MBThis episode of SANDCAST features Savvy Simo, our favorite female host, and Toni Rodriguez, her partner for this season and, at least, the next as they begin their push to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. It has been quite an off-season for Rodriguez, who suffered a season-ending knee injury at AVP New Orleans in 2022. While she rehabbed, Simo played with anyone who would, anywhere in the world. Now, they’re back together. We chatted about all sorts of fun stuff, including: AVP New...
The Road to Paris: Everything you need to know about the Olympic Qualification Cycle
January 09, 2023 15:39 - 17 minutes - 31.2 MBThe Road to Paris is a new series we're doing, with host Travis Mewhirter breaking down the Olympic race, which begins this February in Doha, Qatar. Here Mewhirter explains everything you need to know about the beach volleyball qualification process for the 2024 Olympic Games, from when it begins to when it ends to how every single one of the 24 teams can qualify for Paris 2024. What did you think about this video? It's new, so we're open to suggestions. What do you want more of? Less? A...
Jaden Whitmarsh, UCLA’s Ms. Clutch, is back to lead the Bruins in 2023
January 04, 2023 17:37 - 1 hour - 118 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Jaden Whitmarsh, a court two defender for UCLA and one of the most clutch players in NCAA Beach Volleyball. She is also, as you may be able to gather from her last name, the daughter of Mike Whitmarsh, the 1996 silver medalist at the Atlanta Olympics. We chatted about her family, as well as: What it was like growing up in San Diego, one of the most competitive cities in the country for grassroots – and...
Sean P. Murray, and how the 1984 Olympic Gold Medalists changed volleyball in America
December 28, 2022 13:56 - 1 hour - 128 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Sean P. Murray, the author of If Gold is Our Destiny: How a Team of Mavericks Came Together for Olympic Glory. The book is a deep study of the 1984 men’s Olympic volleyball team who would win gold and kick off a dynastic decade of dominance – and forever change the culture of volleyball in the United States. On this episode, we chat about: The value in looking foolish, and how Doug Beal used it to cre...
Christmas Mailbag: Wrapping up the 2022 season, Olympic partnerships, AVP Awards, podcast rivalry
December 21, 2022 16:17 - 1 hour - 187 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our always popular fan question segment, a Christmas special! Savvy Simo is typically our lovely host of these episodes, but she’s been out of town for a bit, coaching at SOB Volley Vacations and spending time down in New Orleans. So it’s just the boys, answering as many of your (nearly 100!) questions as we could, including, but certainly not limited to: Who are the new partnerships for 2023 and the Paris Ol...
Carly Skjodt has hit the beach full-time, and she’s here to stay
December 14, 2022 16:13 - 1 hour - 151 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Carly Skjodt -- pronounced Scott -- one of the brightest rookies on the AVP Tour this season. An All-American and All-Big 10 outside hitter out of Michigan, Skjodt began playing beach as a graduate transfer for Pepperdine, learning under coach Marcio Sicoli. After a brief stint playing indoors in Portugal, she hit the beach, finishing her rookie season with a third in AVP Central Florida and is now rank...
Ed Keller: Beach Volleyball’s Encyclopedic Superfan
December 07, 2022 16:07 - 1 hour - 163 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Ed Keller, the biggest superfan there is in the sport of beach volleyball. How big? Keller went to 18 tournaments this season – nine Beach Pro Tour, nine AVP… and he thinks it should have been more. Ah, well, guess he’ll have to hit more in 2023. (he will) What all this traveling has done, something he’s been doing since Sean Rosenthal was a 17-year-old kid with the “most gigantic quads you’ve ever see...
PERFECT: Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson ’nail the timing’ of new partnership
November 30, 2022 13:59 - 1 hour - 125 MBThis episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson, one of the most fascinating – and soon to be most popular – teams on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour. Good friends for more than a decade, Humana-Paredes and Wilkerson have played against one another for years and years, both rising through the ranks, both being voted the best in the world at what they do, both becoming two of the most popular and recogn...