Michael Gervais is one of the most well-known and well-respected sports psychologists in the world. There’s a reason he’s been hired by everyone from folks jumping out of planes to F1 racers driving 200-plus miles per hour to the best in beach volleyball: Misty May, Kerri Walsh Jennings, and April Ross, among others. He has one of the coolest perspectives you can have: What it’s like getting behind the mind of the three greatest beach volleyball players of all time?
Fun little snippet from our conversation with Michael Gervais!
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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.
