SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter features one of our most popular guests of all-time, and the single most popular guest of 2025: Troy Field. They talk about: - How he is entering the veteran act of his professional career, playing with the up-and-coming Ryan Wilcox - The power and influence of social media, and how to harness it for good - Why all beach volleyball players should invest in hiring a coach, as Troy did with Mike Placek, if they are taking the game seriously - Where Troy and Tri think the game is headed, and how to make beach volleyball's future better and brighter

Welcome back to Beach Access, presented by Slunks, where Travis Mewhirter chats all things from the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Joao Pessoa Elite, including: - Kristen Cruz and Taryn Brasher might have new names, but they have the same result: GOLD medals for USA Volleyball - Taylor Crabb and Andy Benesh medaling in their first tournament as partners - Kelly Cheng and Megan Kraft medaling in their first tournament as partners - USA Volleyball's big showing early in 2026 thus far And more! SHOOTS!

Welcome back to SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, and welcome to the March Fan Question Mailbag episode! Thanks to all who submitted questions, as we chat: - Recapping the Bhubaneswar Challenge, where Florida State's Audrey Koenig and Alexis Durish balled out to win gold - Breaking down Sara Hughes' and Ally Batenhorst's play - What are the most exciting new partnerships in beach volleyball? - How do you break up with your beach volleyball partner and find a new one? - What is Travis' story of getting into volleyball, and memories from Bulldog Beach? And so much more!

Welcome back to SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, where we have, at the Florida State Beach Volleyball courts, second-year professional Maddie Anderson. We've been trying to get Maddie on the pod for some time, and Travis even coached her and Brook Bauer briefly at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Hamburg Elite a year ago, but finally, we made it work, and we chat about: - How Maddie made the transition from NCAA to professional beach volleyball so well - Her new partnership with Alaina Chacon - Why living in California to become a professional volleyball player is no longer a necessity, and why she's doing it in Florida - How she almost lost her spark and love for volleyball, but reclaimed it and is now all in And much more! Fun one with Mads.

This episode of SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, features Dr. Nate Zinsser, or Doc Z, the author of The Confident Mind, which Travis considers the most powerful sports book of all time. Why? It changed his career – and the careers of everyone he has coached – forever. This one is an absolute powerhouse of an episode, in which the two chat about: - Exercises you can do to increase your confidence in all aspects of life - How you can make your biggest stage, whether it’s the Olympics or a huge presentation, feel totally normal - How to flip nerves into an incredible performance enhancer - The power of journaling, and specifically, journaling about effort, success, and progress And so, so, so much more. Absolute slammer of an episode. SHOOTS!