Savvy Simo and Abby Van Winkle put themselves into a position to qualify for the AVP League. So did Hailey Harward and Kylie DeBerg. But at AVP Chicago, both teams, who were tied, missed on chances and wound up in ninth – remaining tied. And so, after some back and forth, a tiebreaking match, played in the AVP League style of sets to 15-15-15, was played on the Saturday of Chicago. It was tense.
Savvy gives the full details of everything, and what has happened since. Little taste of our AVP League fan question episode to drop this week!
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.
