Beach Volleyball Digest: Our NCAA Beach Coverage Begins; Madison Fitzpatrick on the pod; Conference realignment

2025-02-12T01:44:18+00:00By |

February 10 NCAA Begins, As Does Our Coverage Good morning, beach volleyball fans, The end of football season marks a shift into, for beach volleyball folks, the NCAA Beach Volleyball season, which begins February 21 (Florida State will be at Southern Miss for the occasion). As most SANDCAST listeners/viewers/readers can note, when the Paris Olympic race began, and a notable absence of coverage about the Olympic race was, well, noted, we decided to launch The Road to Paris. It was easily our...

Beach Volleyball Digest: Mel on the weight of an Olympic silver; introduction of the film room; AVP schedule is coming

2025-01-27T13:25:58+00:00By |

January 27 The Weight of Silver Good morning, beach volleyball fans, Years ago, Michael Phelps produced a phenomenal documentary titled The Weight of Gold, which digs into, amongst other things, the stress related to pursuing -- and even achieving -- an Olympic gold medal, or a medal of any color. While we are not in the documentary-producing business -- not yet, anyway -- we did have Melissa Humana-Paredes, she of the historic silver medal won in Paris alongside Brandie Wilkerson, on the...

Beach Volleyball Digest: LA is Burning; SANDCAST Greatest Hits Series; FSU Studios’ debut

2025-01-13T18:30:09+00:00By |

January 13 Mother Nature: Undefeated Good morning, beach volleyball fans, This is typically a lighthearted and easy read of a newsletter. But after seeing all of the images from Los Angeles and, specifically, the Pacific Palisades, this past week, it's difficult to avoid a more somber tone. Miles Partain, Olympian and good friend of ours and the beach community, lost his home, as have dozens of friends from a church we went to in the Palisades. It's wild. Miles wrote a heartfelt post on...

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