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06/04/2026

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06/03/2026

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06/03/2026

On this week's pod, we're welcoming back to one of our most-anticipated annual guests: Gary Green, a human behavior specialist who's chatting mental health, building resilience in sports, and particularly Gen Z athletes (and those who coach them):

Welcome back to SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, and welcome back to one of our most-anticipated annual guests: Gary Green. We're talking building resilience in an anxious world. Key topics from the episode with Dr. Gary Green include - Rise in anxiety and mental heal...

06/01/2026

Our Beach Volleyball World Ostrava Elite recap is up! Talking ANOTHER gold medal for Sweden, Canada winning outside of Canadian soil, Taylor and Andy medaling again for USA Volleyball and a whole lot more. Enjoy!

Welcome back to SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, where Mewhirter and Denise Austin take you on the sand at the Ostrava Elite for day five, chatting: The momentous gold medal for Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson as they win back to back medals for the first...

06/01/2026

We just published this week's Beach Volleyball Digest: Sweden Does it AGAIN in Ostrava; Mel-Brandie finally win outside Canada; AVP League begins." Check it out and subscribe to get all the beach volleyball news, every week!
https://sandcast.kit.com/posts/beach-volleyball-digest-sweden-does-it-again-in-ostrava-mel-brandie-finally-win-outside-canada-avp-league-begins

05/31/2026

We have a most unexpected semifinal in Ostrava, where, for the first time, NONE of the top-five seeds made Sunday (and no Americans), and on the men's end, we have the 20-seed with pseudo-retired Ondrej Perusic, and Andy Benesh and Taylor Crabb working their way back into medal contention:

Welcome back to SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Trav...

05/30/2026

They might be out of their home tournament, but damn if it wasn’t an epic run from .sepka and — and an even more epic match point to break pool late Friday night 😤

05/29/2026

The stock for Andy Benesh and Taylor Crabb just keeps going up and up and up as they won pool in Ostrava, knocking off Cherif and Ahmed AGAIN. That, and a whole lot more from the Steel Jungle:

OSTRAVA, Czechia -- The first time could have been considered, not necessarily a fluke, but perhaps a matter of setting and circumstance. Two weeks ago in Huntington Beach, Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan were wild-carded into the AVP Huntington main draw. Many justifiably considered the rest of th...

05/29/2026

It’s been said that the harder you work, the luckier you get. Well, whether this was hard work or luck or the intersection of the two, the result was undeniably awesome, and obviously just the way and planned it 😜