Introducing MAIN DRAW: A Beach Volleyball Docuseries, coming your way in the summer of 2025. SANDCAST had a full film crew traveling around the world on the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour throughout the 2023 and 2024 seasons, tracking USA’s Tri Bourne and Chaim Schalk, Trevor Crabb and Theo Brunner, Sweden’s David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig, Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan, Norway’s Anders Mol and Christian Sorum, among others. This is the first official trailer. While we have the triumphant Olympic stories — Sweden, Norway, Qatar, etc. — there are also the heartbreaks: Those who hit the Beach Pro Tour and fell short, as Bourne and Schalk did. Coming to your screen in the summer of 2025!
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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.