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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 202050min
Sinjin Smith: Building the sport of beach volleyball from the ground up
On April 10, 1995, Carl Henkel was studying for his law school finals when one of the strangest, most unpredictable and, at that time he would have likely surmised, miraculous phone calls rang in arou...
2 Jan 202039min
Joe Houde: How to keep beach volleyball players healthy on the road
Joe Houde had just begun his career with USA Volleyball, and there was a dead man was in the road. “Oh, yeah,” he said on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter. “Just not a g...
25 Dec 201957min
Mark Burik: Adventuring and the power of ripple effects
Mark Burik tried it. You will notice that to be a theme of his life: The man just tries everything. In this case, a young Burik was trying his best, as a freshman at the University of Delaware, to sel...
18 Dec 20191h 23min
Gettin' jazzed with Kelly Reeves
There is a moment before every practice that is so innocuous, so easy to forget that it’s not all that uncommon for teams to go about practicing without remembering it at all: putting up the antennas....
11 Dec 20191h 9min
