Travis Mewhirter's Blog, page 2
December 21, 2019
Delaney Knudsen: If you can’t have fun, then why are you doing it?
Good luck in your search. You can travel to every tournament, watch every match, pour over film for hours. Good luck finding a moment on...
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December 20, 2019
Reid Priddy is going for double black belt status
Two years ago, maybe it would have worked. Maybe, when Miles Evans put a ball away, looked directly at Reid Priddy and Trevor Crabb, flexed...
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Zana Muno and Crissy Jones: The 47 seed who crashed AVP Hermosa
It almost didn’t happen. The Cinderella run. The upsets over the 16, the four, the eight, the 22. The AVP semifinal that would be host...
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December 18, 2019
Brandie Wilkerson: ‘The next thing you know, your goal is the Olympics’
In 2016, Brandie Wilkerson saw everything there was to see, up close and in person. She saw the ceremonies. The athletes, both beach volleyball and...
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December 17, 2019
SANDCAST: It’s good to be Chaim Schalk, American Chaim Schalk
It was an otherwise innocuous Monday when the Canadian beach volleyball community reached and unleashed its peak fury which, because it’s Canada, really wasn’t much...
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December 16, 2019
Anna Collier: The Coaching Legend who’s now a ‘teenager with money’
Anna Collier is sitting on Tri Bourne’s couch, and she is – if you can believe it – relaxed. She hasn’t been to the beach...
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Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan: A team of Canadian firsts
It wasn’t exactly an audacious start, was it? September 12, 2016. The first match of Melissa Humana-Paredes’ and Sarah Pavan’s partnership: A country quota against...
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December 15, 2019
The next chapter of Ryan Doherty’s career begins in Hermosa Beach
The most difficult transition of Ryan Doherty’s new partnership, from John Hyden to Miles Evans, might not be the difference in playing style or personality...
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December 14, 2019
SANDCAST: Tim Bomgren, the humblest grinder on the AVP Tour
It was the running joke in the player’s tent of AVP New York: Nobody really wanted to play any of the teams on the bracket....
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December 12, 2019
Adam Roberts and Andy Benesh: From qualifier struggles to career finishes
The first notes on the Book of Andy Benesh came a little less than a year ago, about a six-hour drive north of Hermosa Beach....
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