SANDCAST archives

Alexis Durish: Taking FSU Beach Volleyball to “A Whole ‘Nother Level”

2025-01-08T12:09:50+00:00By Travis Mewhirter|

TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Alexis Durish had done the usual song and dance of a fall [...]

Is California Still The Best Place For Beach Volleyball Players to Live?

2025-01-08T01:21:53+00:00By Travis Mewhirter|

On this Quick Set of SANDCAST, Travis Mewhirter and Florida State standout Alexis Durish wonder [...]

Beach Volleyball Digest: Beach Pro Tour Player Awards are in! A new venture in Volleyball media; Mark Paaluhi, Man of the Year

2025-01-06T15:01:11+00:00By Travis Mewhirter|

January 6 Happy New Year, y'all Good morning, beach volleyball fans, And a happy New Year! Hope everyone is still hitting the gym and doing whatever it is they've resolved to do in 2025. I'm back on the 5 a.m. wake-up routine, hence the early email. We at SANDCAST have resolved to continue growing, as 2024 was our most explosive year yet: 52% of our listeners discovered us in 2024 alone, we eclipsed 1 million audio downloads, our YouTube had more views in a single year than the previous six...

Beach Volleyball Man of The Year: Mark Paaluhi

2025-01-02T13:56:27+00:00By Travis Mewhirter|

TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Mark Paaluhi didn’t have to do any of it. Didn’t have to [...]

Women’s Beach Pro Tour Player Awards: Ana Patricia, Duda Dominate 2024

2025-01-01T13:27:18+00:00By Travis Mewhirter|

TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Just how good are Ana Patricia Silva and Duda Lisboa? By many [...]

Men’s Beach Pro Tour Awards: David Ahman, Anders Mol in a Class of Their Own

2025-01-01T13:26:28+00:00By Travis Mewhirter|

TALLAHASSEE, Florida -- Maybe the torch has been passed. Maybe the six-year run of Anders [...]

Beach Volleyball Digest: Evan Cory and Tri Bourne’s new partnership; Mel and Brandie mic’d up; Best books of 2024

2024-12-30T23:15:06+00:00By Travis Mewhirter|

December 30 Best For Last Good evening, beach volleyball fans, I hope y'all had the best Christmas and are still enjoying some time with family and sleeping in before the New Year's Resolutions begin and the alarms are at 5 and you're working out like fiends and detoxing and all the rest. As a belated Christmas present, and by complete accident -- we call that serendipity -- we have evidently saved our best mic'd up of the year for last, with Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson. Even...

MIC’D UP! Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson At The Finals

2024-12-30T17:49:29+00:00By Travis Mewhirter|

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydvtUZ6v1js&lc=UgwRSsRhwPdse9dM7sx4AaABAg Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson won Canada's first Olympic medal this year, a silver [...]