Patty Dodd: Manhattan Champ, National Champ, and more importantly, Coach
Patricia Orozco knew Mike Dodd was serious the day he picked her up at UCLA in 1985. She knew he was serious because, after taking her to Marine Street for a crash course in beach volleyball, he took ...
30 Touko 20181h 6min
Mailbag No. 2: Who's the best U.S. player not named Phil?
The mailbag is back! On the second SANDCAST mailbag, Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, alongside Podcast Mama Gabby Bourne, answer a wide variety of questions from you, the listeners. Before we get in...
29 Touko 201832min
Tim Bomgren, from Minnesota to the finals of AVP Austin
One day. That’s it. That’s all Tim Bomgren and Taylor Crabb had for practice prior to AVP Austin. Crabb needed an emergency fill-in after Jake Gibb broke his toe. To the lefty from Minnesota he turned...
23 Touko 201852min
Adam Johnson: The Hall of Famer hiding in plain sight
Adam Johnson couldn’t believe it. He’d had some rough losses in his day, narrow losses with a lot on the line. Twice he had been the first team out of the Olympics, and twice it was because of a rando...
16 Touko 20181h 8min
SANDCAST Mailbag: Tri's secret to jumping high, Travis's journey into volleyball
You guys asked – literally, you did ask questions, though not specifically for an entire episode of them – and SANDCAST is delivering. This is our first “mailbag” or “Sandbag” or whatever you’d like t...
14 Touko 201843min
Adam Roberts: Beach volleyball's talent finder
Lay out? Was that what Adam Roberts’ friends said? He didn’t even know what that meant. So you just walked down by the ocean, put a blanket down, and… laid there? Nope. Not Adam Roberts, this week’s g...
9 Touko 20181h
For the Netherlands' Brouwer and Meeuwsen, it's all or nothing
They’re strategy was, simply, to dream on, because what else could they really do? Alexander Brouwer and Robert Meeuwsen had no prior experience to call upon in the 2013 World Championships. The young...
2 Touko 20181h 10min
For Kelly Reeves and Brittany Howard, it's all gucci vibes
It would seem that Kelly Reeves and Brittany Howard have been playing together for years. At the very least, it would seem as if they’ve been close for quite some time. They smile constantly. Laugh ev...
25 Huhti 20181h
