The dichotomous beach volleyball cultures of Florida and California
THE SOUTH -- For the past three weeks, I’ve been on the road: Nashville to St. Petersburg to Fort Walton to Orlando to St....
Three years of unbelievable growth, change in three years of SANDCAST
About four hours before Tri Bourne, Savvy Simo and I recorded our latest episode of SANDCAST: Beach volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter,...
Casey Patterson, 40, making most of offseason, with eye on beach volleyball future
Casey Patterson is one of the most passionate people you’ve ever met.
He’s passionate at everything he does, whether he’s jumping in his car at...
SANDCAST: Julia Scoles, finding peace amid life’s biggest decisions
Julia Scoles can’t pinpoint exactly where the peace came from, nor does she really feel the need to know.
All she knew was that, in...
Fuds continues to thrive as beach volleyball’s giant family reunion
FORT WALTON BEACH – In April of 2014, I took what was, at the time, the biggest risk of my life: I packed my...
SANDCAST: Avery Drost, beach volleyball’s ultimate utility man
Avery Drost is confused.
Now, before we go too far, this isn’t a bad thing. It’s actually kind of good, particularly with one of the...
Young volleyball talent on full display at Hyden Beach as Partain, Nuss, Kloth win...
NASHVILLE, Tennessee – JD Hamilton sat under a grey Tennessee sky spitting a light rain, and pointed to the courts before him.
“That,” he said,...
VolleyballLife becoming the “restaurant row” of beach volleyball
The idea was to make a restaurant row, only there would be no restaurants, but a heck of a lot of volleyball tournaments.
For so...
Beach Bytes: McKibbins’ KOB, Grass Nationals, Hyden tournament
On Tuesday, September 22, Stafford Slick was walking down Hermosa Strand. He saw the sponsor tents, the chairs. He saw the sound setup for...
SANDCAST: Jordan Cheng, making a career out of “once in a lifetime” opportunities
Jordan Cheng had plans. Loose plans, but plans nonetheless. He was going to compete for the Chapman club volleyball team, which he had helped...
