Stocks to buy for the upcoming 2020 AVP season
The coronavirus may be decimating the global and American stock markets, but one place you won’t find its impact is the annual SANDCAST Beach Volleyball Stocks to Buy. This week, as we did in 2019, Tr...
26 Helmi 20201h 24min
Camryn Irwin is living the dream
It’s May 16, 2018, the eve of Camryn Irwin’s debut as an Amazon Prime broadcaster calling AVP tournaments. She gets a call from the AVP. They inform her that she’ll be calling play by play. “Ok!” Irwi...
19 Helmi 20201h 18min
The sweet music of trainer Mykel Jenkins
A GARAGE IN AN UNKNOWN LOCATION – It was all wrong. Mykel Jenkins is all about the soundtrack of not just sports, but life. He wants it to be beautiful, and when something is done right, it doesn’t ju...
12 Helmi 20201h 8min
Mike Placek: Diving deep into college beach volleyball
Mike Placek was just looking for the simple stuff. He didn’t need to know tendencies or flaws, what his opponent’s strongest and weakest shots were. He didn’t need to know serving habits or whether th...
5 Helmi 20201h 16min
It's nothin' but love with Falyn Fonoimoana
It’s a late Tuesday morning, and Falyn Fonoimoana has brought the goods again. She’s even brought some freshly baked banana bread, for her coaches, Arthur Carvahlo and Pompilio Mercadante, who smiles ...
29 Tammi 20201h 9min
Tri Bourne and Trevor Crabb are looking to improve upon first year’s foundation
Tri Bourne found a funny way to describe a learning moment he and Trevor Crabb had towards the end of the 2019 season, their first as partners and first as split-blockers. “Only at the end of the year...
22 Tammi 202054min
Life is a blast for Dain Blanton right now
Dain Blanton is smiling. For almost an hour and a half straight, sitting in a room talking about beach volleyball and a life that has revolved around it for almost three decades now, he smiles. At som...
15 Tammi 20201h 5min
Sinjin Smith, part two: 'You'd compete all day long'
Sinjin Smith knows the world is different now. That guys just can’t play volleyball for four hours, jump train for one, take a ride down to South Mission Beach and then play for another four. Jobs. Ki...
8 Tammi 202050min
