About this episode

The episode recaps the opening day of the Gstaad Elite beach volleyball tournament, highlighting key performances and match outcomes.

Welcome back to SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, and welcome back to the Gstaad Elite, the greatest place on Earth. We're recapping an action-packed opening day in Gstaad, where: - Trevor Crabb and Chase Budinger delivered an enormous day one, qualifying with a win over Adrian Heidrich and Yves Haussener and then handling Taylor Crabb and Andy Benesh with ease - Tina Graudina continues thriving here in Gstaad, making the main draw with young Liv Ebere - USA Volleyball's women so-so day, with three teams punching their main draw tickets and four bowing out - Switzerland's young guns, Luc Fluckiger and Andrin Kolb upsetting the Grimalt cousins before ALMOST taking David Ahman and Jonatan Hellvig to three And more! SHOOTS!

People in this episode

Host: Travis Mewhirter

Topics covered

• Gstaad Elite
• Beach Volleyball
• USA Women's Volleyball
• Day One Recap
• Player Performances
• Qualifying Matches

Keywords

• Gstaad
• Beach Volleyball
• Trevor Crabb
• Chase Budinger
• Tina Graudina
• USA Volleyball
• Qualifying Matches

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: USA Volleyball

Places: Gstaad, Switzerland

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