SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter

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Matt Prosser: ”Coming Full Circle” From Playing to Coaching to Broadcasting and Cancer Jan 03, 2024

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Matt Prosser is one of the most well-rounded talents in the sport of volleyball. An All-American at Long Beach State, Prosser took his size to the beach, where he won an AVP with Matt Olson and enjoyed immense success with John Mayer. In 2018, despite having been only a year out from chemotherapy, Prosser qualified for the Manhattan Beach Open with Eric Beranek, retiring afterwards on his own terms. Now, he’s a voice you’ll recognize on AVP and Volleyball TV broadcasts as a commentator for the Italian SuperLega, Beach Pro Tour, and numerous AVP tournaments. We chatted about all of that, as well as:

How Prosser got hooked on volleyball at the age of 13
What it was like in 2010 when the AVP folded – one week after Prosser made a final in Hermosa Beach
How he was able to overcome cancer and make another main draw
How a chance encounter with Dustin Watten led to Prosser’s favorite career yet: Commentating on beach volleyball

And, per usual, a whole lot more.

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Best of SANDCAST 2023: The Top Moments From Every Guest, From Andy Benesh to Zana Muno Dec 27, 2023

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This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball With Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is a unique one: The top moment from every single podcast we did this year from A – Andy Benesh, April Ross – to Z – Zana Muno, and everywhere in between – Miles Partain, Taylor Crabb, Taylor Sander, you get it. This was, by a long, long, long shot, the most successful year the podcast has had, exploding through records in every single metric, from YouTube to audio to engagement.

We wanted to THANK YOU for sticking with us through crappy audio, inconsistent camera setups, studio changes, and episodes good and bad. Can’t do it without y’all, so here’s to a wonderful 2024 season.

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FINAL Road to Paris of 2023: Sharpies, Contenders, Dark Horses for the Paris Olympics Dec 26, 2023

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This is the FINAL Road to Paris of a long and wonderful 2023 beach volleyball season. This is a comprehensive recap of which teams are all but assured spots in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games – aka SHARPIED! – which teams are favored and in contention of the remaining spots, and which teams are the dark horses vying for the few spots remaining. As always, if you have any questions about the complicated Olympic qualifying process, I’d LOVE to answer them. Always happy to help and chat Olympic beach volleyball. Thank you to everyone for coming along for the ride this season, it’s been a blast starting this series. Unless there is a strong preference for another Road to Paris before the onset of the 2024 Beach Pro Tour season, this will be the last episode until the Doha Elite16 in March.

Until then, have a MERRY CHRISTMAS and Happy New Year!

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Mailbag Episode! Our thoughts on the new AVP? Olympic predictions?! Best moments of 2023 Dec 20, 2023

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This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter is our always-popular, semi-monthly mailbag episode. And boy oh boy did we have questions for this one, largely on the same topic: What’s up with the new AVP and its proposed league model? We delve into that for a large portion of the episode, as well as:

What are our Paris 2024 predictions?
What does off-season look like for professional beach volleyball players?
What are our best, worst, and funniest moments of 2023?
Are Russians allowed back on tour?

That, and a whole lot more. Thank you as always for submitting questions. If you want to submit or have us chat about a topic, DM Tri or Travis on Instagram and we’ll put it into the pool of questions!

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Jump Higher, Hit harder, Play Better, With Volleyball Strength Coach Nathan Michaels Dec 13, 2023

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This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, is with volleyball strength and conditioning coach, and the man whom Mewhirter calls the “knee whisperer,” Nathan Michaels. Mewhirter began working with Michaels in 2021…and hasn’t taken a single Ibuprofen since, playing pain free, as strong and mobile as he’s ever been, all the while playing the best beach volleyball of his career.

Michaels is a huge reason for that.

This episode might be the most useful and practical episode we’ve done in six-plus years of podcasting, chatting about:

The 5 BEST bang for your buck exercises for beach volleyball
How to jump higher on the sand
How to open up your arm swing and hit harder
The best foods to eat prior and during gameday to stop cramping and to sustain peak performance throughout a tournament

And so much more. This one is PACKED with awesome, useful information. Less storytelling and more practicals here.

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Mason Briggs: The Trailblazing Libero Who Built A 100k-plus Following Dec 06, 2023

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This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Mason Briggs, an All-American at Long Beach State and one of the best liberos in the world. But he’s far more than that. Briggs is a trailblazer, a 22-year-old who has amassed one of the biggest followings in all of NCAA Volleyball, a following he is using to expand the reach of the game in new and innovative ways, such as trading cards. We talked all about that, as well as:

Where Briggs’ entrepreneurial spirit comes from (come for the duct tape wallets, stick around for the Steve Madden story)
Why men’s volleyball is the world’s greatest kept secret
His “pinnacle moment” being the only college player on the USA National Team’s World Championship roster
What it’s like backing up, and learning from, Erik Shoji

And so much more.

Super fun podcast with Briggs!

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Daniel ”Frito” Freitas: The content machine who escaped the 9-5 to ”do fun” for a living Nov 29, 2023

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Daniel “Frito” Freitas is one of the most prolific content creators on the AVP Tour. Ever wonder where many of those videos come from that so many players – Molly Turner, Tri Bourne, Zana Muno, Trevor Crabb, David Schweiner, Kelly Cheng, Ondrej Perusic, you name it – post with virality on their social media accounts? A large percentage of those are shot, edited, and produced by Frito, the man behind the camera for all of our World Champs coverage and for Tri Bourne’s Bourne on the Beach vlogs. He is, frankly, the man. We had him on SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter to chat about his increasingly vital role in a sport dependent on content, including:

How he made the jump from 9-5 to “doing fun” for a living
How a chance meeting with NBA player Sasha Vujacic in 2014 snowballed into a career with the Los Angeles Clippers, AVP, LA Galaxy, and even the NFL Draft
How Mpu Dinani, one the AVP’s most beloved photographers, hooked him up with a gig touring with Conor McGregor
Why saying yes to virtually everything is so valuable in the early stages of a freelancing career

And so much more. Bit of an off-beat episode but such a fun one! Videographers and photographers are the lifeblood of this sport, which is based primarily on content and aesthetics. We need more Fritos (and Mpus) in the world!

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Road to Paris: Dutchmen are Flying, China is Rising, Qatar is Returning, Chase and Miles Are Surging Nov 28, 2023

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This episode of The Road to Paris breaks down the two most recent @volleyballworld events, a Challenge in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and an Elite16 in Joao Pessoa, Brazil. The highlights, per Travis Mewhirter, are:

- A Netherlands race that is heating up with a gold won by Steven van de Velde and Matthew Immers and a bronze taken by Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot

- George and Andre reasserting themselves as the top team in Brazil

- Chen Xue and Xinyi Xia: SHARPIE!

- Chase Budinger and Miles Evans topping Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk, with sights set on catching Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner That, and a whole lot more!

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Terese Cannon: Scrapping a six-year Olympic plan to ’go play because you like playing’ Nov 22, 2023

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This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Terese Cannon, who is annually one of the world’s most improved players. Initially an indoor player for Georgetown, Cannon transferred to USC, won a handful of National Championships, and has since become one of the top blockers in the USA. A run at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with Sarah Sponcil was abruptly called off after Sponcil switched to indoor, but Cannon is now back on track with, unexpectedly, Megan Kraft, another left side blocker. We cover all of that, including:

What exactly happened between Cannon and Sponcil
How Cannon and Kraft, a pair of left-side blockers, came to play together, and the influence of Scott Davenport in that partnership
A competitive personality that molds to her partner’s, and why that’s both a good and bad thing
Why she doesn’t need the incentive of the Olympic Games to continue pursuing her goal of becoming one of the best players in the world

And a whole lot more.

Such a fun chat with T.

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Seain Cook: ”An idiot who plays beach volleyball? That’s good.” Nov 15, 2023

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This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Seain Cook, one of the funniest personalities in the entire sport of beach volleyball – or just volleyball as a whole – who is also, despite what his Instagram might lead you to believe, a very, very good player. Had it not been for his own partner, Cody Caldwell, Cook would have been the 2023 Most Improved Player, after a season in which he won both the Waupaca and Laguna Beach Tour Series events and finished third at the Manhattan Beach Open.

We had, as you could guess, a hilarious conversation with Seain, covering his 2023 season, as well as:

What improvements he saw in his game from 2022 to 2023
What in the world happened in his 21-6 loss to Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner – and how Trevor added salt to the wound at 20-6
Why he is now beginning a new three-year cycle as a player
How he is almost (almost!) officially a U.S. citizen and might one day be able to compete for USA Volleyball

Lots of laughs in this one, and plenty of love taps at our good friend Jake Urrutia.

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