Beach Bytes: Karissa Cook at LMU, Loiola at UCLA, Collier takes HS job, Amorim...
There's a new substitute teacher in Santa Monica this year.
That's how Karissa Cook will describe it, anyway. With Betsi Flint, LMU's usual assistant coach,...
SANDCAST: Tina Graudina, Latvian trailblazer, is here to inspire
Tina Graudina still gets goosebumps. She even rolled up her sleeves a bit, just to show us, as she recalled watching her countrymen, Martins...
SANDCAST: Beach volleyball is back, answering fan questions heading into 2021 season
Once more, we write: Beach volleyball is back again. Kinda. Sorta. We hope.
It will be tentative, as all things in 2021 are likely to...
SANDCAST: Andy Benesh, Billy Allen’s new partner, is turning a corner
Even now, at 25, Andy Benesh would be hesitant to trust himself with his own money. Two years earlier, he couldn’t fathom why anybody...
SANDCAST: Nina Matthies: Beach volleyball’s ultimate champion and ambassador
By Nina Matthies’ definition of it, she’s been working since she was 16 years old.
“I got paid and I had to do stuff,” she...
Ed Chan picks out his top 20 photos of volleyball-abbreviated 2020
I had great hopes for 2020.
I was going to make my first trip to Gulf Shores for the NCAA Beach Championships, because for the...
SANDCAST: Billy Allen, the self-deprecating, deadpanning AVP champion and author
Billy Allen began the conversation in the most Billy Allen way possible, with deadpanned self-deprecation. When asked about his new book, Dark Blood, released...
After introspective 2020, “gushy” Claes and partner Sponcil preparing for Olympic challenge
Kelly Claes was about to head for the airport. She and partner Sarah Sponcil were ranked eighth in the world, third in the USA...
SANDCAST: Angie Akers, beach volleyball’s running, kickboxing Olympic coach
Angie Akers tried. She tried virtually every way possible to get out of this game.
Fate had a good chuckle at that one.
Retiring from professional...
Part 2 of our April Ross interview, including choosing Alix Klineman, getting a new...
April Ross and her partner, Alix Klineman, are training in Brazil.
In this second of three parts of our extended interview, among the topics we...
