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Reid Priddy is going for "double-black belt status"
Episode 105
Two years ago, maybe it would have worked. Maybe, when Miles Evans put a ball away, looked directly at Reid Priddy and Trevor Crabb, flexed and yelle…
6 years, 10 months ago
Eric Beranek: Setback, setback, setback -- then massive breakthrough
Episode 104
You know what they say about plans. Some say that when God hears you making plans, he just laughs. Mike Tyson claims that everybody’s got plan, until…
6 years, 10 months ago
Brandie Wilkerson: 'The next thing you know, your goal is the Olympics'
Episode 103
In 2016, Brandie Wilkerson saw everything there was to see, up close and in person. She saw the ceremonies. The athletes, both beach volleyball and o…
6 years, 10 months ago
Anna Collier: The Coaching Legend who's now a 'teenager with money'
Episode 102
Anna Collier is sitting on Tri Bourne’s couch, and she is – if you can believe it – relaxed. She hasn’t been to the beach in months, aside from when …
6 years, 10 months ago
Zana Muno and Crissy Jones: The 47 seed who crashed AVP Hermosa
Episode 101
It almost didn’t happen. The Cinderella run. The upsets over the 16, the four, the eight, the 22. The AVP semifinal that would be host to the highest…
6 years, 10 months ago
Adam Roberts and Andy Benesh: From qualifier struggles to career finishes
Episode 100
The first notes on the Book of Andy Benesh came a little less than a year ago, about a six-hour drive north of Hermosa Beach. Adam Roberts was there …
6 years, 11 months ago
It's a good year to be Chaim Schalk -- American Chaim Schalk
Episode 99
It was an otherwise innocuous Monday when the Canadian beach volleyball community reached and unleashed its peak fury which, because it’s Canada, rea…
6 years, 11 months ago
The next chapter of Ryan Doherty's career begins in Hermosa Beach
Episode 98
The most difficult transition of Ryan Doherty’s new partnership, from John Hyden to Miles Evans, might not be the difference in playing style or …
6 years, 11 months ago
Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan: A team of Canadian firsts
Episode 97
It wasn’t exactly an audacious start, was it? September 12, 2016. The first match of Melissa Humana-Paredes’ and Sarah Pavan’s partnership: A country…
6 years, 11 months ago
Tim Bomgren: The humblest grinder on the AVP Tour
Episode 96
It was the running joke in the player’s tent of AVP New York: Nobody really wanted to play any of the teams on the bracket. Of the seven teams Tim Bo…
7 years ago