Travis Mewhirter's Blog, page 15

AVP Tour 2017: A season of change

I’ve been thinking a lot about Huntington Beach. Not because it’s where I spend most of my mornings. It reminds me of months ago. It reminds me of ages ago, a time long, long before...

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AVP Chicago: God bless the bigger draws

Imagine, for a moment, that AVP Chicago was a 16-team draw, like Huntington Beach, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco and New York. Actually, scratch that. I don’t want to imagine that. I don’t want to imagine...

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PODCAST: Tim Hovland, five-time Manhattan Beach Open champ

Phil Dalhausser didn’t waste much time. Just moments after winning his sixth Manhattan Beach Open title on August 20, he pointed to the front row of the stadium, where Tim Hovland was seated, and said...

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Jason Dibelius, aka NYvarsity Sports, adds Top 10 feature to beach volleyball coverage

If you haven’t met Jason Dibelius, it’s actually quite possible you have. In volleyball circles, he’s best known as NYvarsity Sports, which is the name of his YouTube channel, an exhaustive, beach volleyball-heavy stream that...

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AVP Manhattan Beach Open: Phil Dalhausser, Nick Lucena playing on an entirely different level

There was Sean Rosenthal, digging off the chest, digging off his right arm, his left arm, a scoop, a platform, his “fanny pack,” as Rich Lambourne described it on the livestream of the AVP Manhattan...

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AVP Manhattan Beach Open qualifier was anarchy, beach volleyball is awesome, let’s go to Shellback’s

One of my favorite moments in beach volleyball came roughly two seconds after I lost maybe the funnest, most exciting matches I’ve had the opportunity to play. I sat, head drooped, collapsed under the net,...

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AVP Manhattan Beach Open returns with a colossal qualifier

Summer Ross went a little wild this week. She washed her car. She did her laundry. She went asleep in one time zone and awoke in — can you believe it? — the same time...

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Reid Priddy: The ambassador the AVP and beach volleyball needs

I couldn’t tell if Jorge Martinez was joking when he told me, back in February, to not be intimidated by the four-time Olympian on the other side of the net. I can remember giving Jorge...

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Manhattan Beach Open champ Adam Johnson joins Paper Courts

There are few beach volleyball players on the planet who have won as many tournaments — and by extension, money — in the sport as Adam Johnson. Nicknamed AJ, he won more than 40 professional...

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Beach Volleyball World Championships: The new Brazil meets the U.S.A.

This is the real Olympics. The Beach Volleyball World Championships in Vienna, Austria this week is the event that beach volleyball fans worldwide point to as the true barometer of the best team in the...

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