Eric Beranek: Setback, setback, setback -- then massive breakthrough
You know what they say about plans. Some say that when God hears you making plans, he just laughs. Mike Tyson claims that everybody’s got plan, until they get punched in the face. Eric Beranek had pla...
28 Elo 20191h 11min
Brandie Wilkerson: 'The next thing you know, your goal is the Olympics'
In 2016, Brandie Wilkerson saw everything there was to see, up close and in person. She saw the ceremonies. The athletes, both beach volleyball and otherwise. She practiced on stadium court with the w...
21 Elo 20191h 1min
Anna Collier: The Coaching Legend who's now a 'teenager with money'
Anna Collier is sitting on Tri Bourne’s couch, and she is – if you can believe it – relaxed. She hasn’t been to the beach in months, aside from when she rides her bike down the strand. She’s getting f...
14 Elo 20191h 36min
Zana Muno and Crissy Jones: The 47 seed who crashed AVP Hermosa
It almost didn’t happen. The Cinderella run. The upsets over the 16, the four, the eight, the 22. The AVP semifinal that would be host to the highest seed – Q47 – in the tour’s history. The 8-3 jump Z...
7 Elo 201956min
Adam Roberts and Andy Benesh: From qualifier struggles to career finishes
The first notes on the Book of Andy Benesh came a little less than a year ago, about a six-hour drive north of Hermosa Beach. Adam Roberts was there to watch Benesh’s second-round match. Playing in ju...
31 Heinä 201955min
It's a good year to be Chaim Schalk -- American Chaim Schalk
It was an otherwise innocuous Monday when the Canadian beach volleyball community reached and unleashed its peak fury which, because it’s Canada, really wasn’t much fury at all. Tri Bourne had put up ...
24 Heinä 20191h 6min
The next chapter of Ryan Doherty's career begins in Hermosa Beach
The most difficult transition of Ryan Doherty’s new partnership, from John Hyden to Miles Evans, might not be the difference in playing style or personality or skill level or experience or energy leve...
17 Heinä 20191h 6min
Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan: A team of Canadian firsts
It wasn’t exactly an audacious start, was it? September 12, 2016. The first match of Melissa Humana-Paredes’ and Sarah Pavan’s partnership: A country quota against Brandie Wilkerson and – who else? – ...
10 Heinä 20191h 6min
