Molly Turner: Following the perfectly unorthodox path to success
It’s difficult to blame Grand Canyon beach volleyball coach Kristen Rohr for forgetting. That when she looked around at her group of players, the one that began the 2018 season ranked No. 10 in the co...
12 Dec 201858min
Travis Mewhirter releases new beach volleyball book: We Were Kings
Travis Mewhirter published his book, We Were Kings, on December 5. You can order it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble! I’ll always remember the first interview. It was September of 2016. I was sitting on...
5 Dec 20181h 21min
Stafford Slick: Beach volleyball's Viking duck hunter
As if his path to beach volleyball wasn’t unique enough – raised in Minnesota, little to no volleyball background aside from a little club indoor, not a clue who men named Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhaus...
28 Nov 20181h 17min
John Mayer turns focus to full-time coaching
It’s fitting that John Mayer would spend much of his retirement podcast talking about everyone except John Mayer. Much of it was spent discussing Trevor Crabb, despite Mayer even catching himself midw...
21 Nov 20181h 17min
SANDCAST anniversary episode: We made it!
It was funny, what kept happening over the course over the year, a comical little motif that never failed to boggle my mind. People would thank me. They thanked me in Austin. To the great amusement an...
14 Nov 20181h 11min
Wilco Nijland, creator the King of the Court series
You’d have thought he was busy enough, Wilco Nijland. His plate of responsibilities includes only, oh, a 10-stop beach volleyball tour in the Netherlands, his role as the Controlling Operations Office...
7 Nov 20181h 12min
Evie Matthews, beach coach and right-hand man of John Hyden
Tri Bourne and Evie Matthews are the first to admit it: They were not the thinkers of the trio between those two and John Hyden. Bourne was the up-and-coming player, a green, mid-20s blocker making hi...
31 Okt 20181h 18min
Jeff Alzina: Architect of beach volleyball powers
In 1997, there were six countries with beach volleyball coaches for their national teams. Perhaps one of the most unqualified to do so was one of them. Jeff Alzina had never coached on the beach prior...
24 Okt 20181h 8min
