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
Mike Dodd: Finding the soul of the game
Mike Dodd apologized. He’d been getting all wound up, or as wound up as the man, labeled by anyone you ask as one of the nicest guys in the world, can get. He even dropped the f word not once, but twi...
4 Dec 20191h 23min
The Free Agent Podcast: Who's playing with who in 2020
This week on SANDCAST, Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter break down all of the partner switches happening in United States beach volleyball. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.co...
27 Nov 20191h 1min
Theo Brunner has undergone his beach volleyball 'rebirth'
Theo Brunner was in need, he says, of a rebirth. Not quite a religious ceremony, but something to revitalize a beach volleyball career that had, while not sunk, gone a bit sideways. There was the chro...
20 Nov 20191h 5min
