This Quick Set episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features Our Friend, Your Friend, Everyone’s Friend — he’s Kyle Friend. And Kyle Friend is gushing about his young partner from this season: Tim Brewster, and the insane growth the 22-year-old made this season.
In the last two weeks, Brewster has won his first AND his second international gold medals, winning events in the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua, capping off a brilliant season.
If you want to watch our full episode with Kyle Friend, here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsqcP…
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.