Chris Geeter McGee: The Art of the introduction
Chris Geeter McGee isn’t technically involved in the sport of beach volleyball anymore. He’s passed on his metaphorical emceeing torch to Mark Schuermann. But he’s still a South Bay guy, still plays i...
29 Touko 20191h
Corinne Quiggle: Winning medals via tuk-tuks
It was, of all places, Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where Corinne Quiggle discovered her ideal method of travel. It isn’t by car. Or Uber. Or ferry. Or train. Or plane. It is, instead, a tuk-tuk, a type of p...
22 Touko 20191h 12min
Nicole and Megan McNamara are taking on the world
You could have seen this path a long time ago, had you been paying close enough attention. When Nicole and Megan McNamara, identical twins from Vancouver, Canada, were on the same indoor team. One set...
15 Touko 20191h 1min
AVP Huntington recap: Domestic beach volleyball is thriving
Let it sink in, if just for a second, that in a tournament where a pair of Sunday regular teams – John Hyden and Ryan Doherty, Reid Priddy and Theo Brunner -- were elsewhere in the world, Phil Dalhaus...
8 Touko 201940min
Brooke Niles: Florida State's pieces are set for Gulf Shores
It was a little more than two months ago that Brooke Niles and the Florida State team suffered their first failure in a season without too many of them. Niles had made a commitment to herself, promisi...
1 Touko 201953min
Mark Schuermann: The voice of the AVP
The voice is feeling good. “Oh, yeah,” Mark Schuermann confirmed on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, and if you’ve listened to the episode and just those two words, you...
24 Huhti 20191h 7min
Tyler Hildebrand: The most passionate man in beach volleyball
Tyler Hildebrand doesn’t really know what you should call him. “Official title is Director of Coaching,” he said of his new role at USA Volleyball. But they’re working on title changes because, candid...
17 Huhti 20191h 41min
Leon Abravanel: The unexplored benefits of mental training
It was Yogi Berra who best expounded upon the upside of mental performance in athletics: “Sports are 90 percent mental, and the other half is physical.” Questionable math aside, the former Yankee catc...
10 Huhti 201951min
