Mailbag: Who are the top five blockers and defenders in the world? More fan questions
Typically, I’d be a bit neurotic by now. Short on sleep. Distracted. Mind ping-ponging back and forth, looking at the draw, then looking again – did it change did it change? This, of course, is not th...
29 Apr 20201h 2min
Kawika Shoji: Leading the wildly talented Hawai'i generation of Olympians
A few weeks ago, Kawika Shoji and Taylor Crabb escaped the tedium of quarantine to do some hill sprints near their houses in Manoa. There is nothing new or special or spectacular about this. It is, ac...
22 Apr 20201h 9min
Hector Gutierrez is building another college beach southeast power at TCU
Hector Guitierrez sat outside of his home in Fort Worth, Texas, a purple TCU sweatshirt protecting him from a cool breeze, and hat shading him from the sun. “You never know,” he said on SANDCAST: Beac...
15 Apr 202045min
Marcio Sicoli loves what he does: Coaching to Olympic medals, living vicariously through his players
It was 2005 when Tatiana Minello and Mimi Amaral needed a coach. Not just any coach. The natives of Rio de Janeiro were making the move to the AVP. They needed someone who could speak English. “You sp...
8 Apr 202049min
Christian Hartford is changing the culture at USA Volleyball
Alex Brouwer sought the source of the voice. The one that perpetually stood out from among 13,000 screaming Germans at the World Championships in Hamburg. The one that was always heard by any player c...
1 Apr 202040min
How the 2020 Olympic postponement could impact each team in the race
On Tuesday morning, what seemed to be the inevitable alas became a reality: The 2020 Olympic Games were postponed, to sometime in 2021. For some, it’s heartbreaking. “I can understand why other people...
25 Mar 202051min
The E and T Show goes to Cabo!
CABO, Mex. – When the final point was won, and Eric Beranek and Bill Kolinske moved on at AVP Hawai’i, a seam ace putting the final nail in the coffin for Troy Field and Tim Bomgren, there was no tant...
18 Mar 20201h
Melissa Humana-Paredes is gritting up
The lead was gone, momentum completely flipped, and Melissa Humana-Paredes was, in her own words, crapping her pants. That’s what she said to her partner after their 14-10 lead in the third set of t...
11 Mar 20201h 13min
