The Beach Pro Tour Player Awards are BACK! After an epic 2023 season that wound from Doha in February to Brazil and China and Mexico and Gstaad and Canada and right on back to Doha again, the 2023 Beach Pro Tour season was one for the books. And now we have legitimate awards again, voted on by the players. One of these days, we’ll have a proper awards ceremony. For now, enjoy our 2023 Beach Pro Tour Player Awards show.
VIDEO CREDS: Daniel Freitas aka La Maquina
PHOTO CREDS: Volleyball World SHOOTS!
Author, journalist, podcast host, and broadcaster, Travis Mewhirter has written 4 number-one bestsellers — including Kings of Summer: The Rise of Beach Volleyball, alongside Olympic gold medalist Kent Steffes. He has also written award-winning features, including a package at the Northwest Florida Daily News that earned him Sports Writer of the Year, and a heartfelt story on the late Eric Zaun in Volleyball Magazine, which was an honorable mention in the 2020 Best American Sportswriting.
Following the passing of Eric Zaun, Mewhirter, alongside Jon Mesko and Katie Spieler, founded the Eric Zaun Award, which has raised more than 25 thousand to fund beach volleyball players.
Mewhirter now devotes most of his time to playing and covering beach volleyball, via his podcast: SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, as well as writing for Volleyball Magazine and commentating on Volleyball TV. Mewhirter and Bourne have written two books together: Volleyball for Milkshakes, and Playbook of Champions, both of which were number-one best-sellers.