About this episode

Travis Mewhirter answers fan questions about beach volleyball, discussing topics like the AVP's international player policy and NCAA players' competitiveness.

Welcome to the fan question, or mailbag, episode of SANDCAST, where Travis Mewhirter takes on all of your beach volleyball and volleyball questions and attempts to answer them as best as he can. This week, he's chatting: - Is the AVP allowing international players a good thing or bad thing for beach volleyball? (hint: It's AWESOME) - Could this year's Olympic qualifying for the USA Volleyball women be the most competitive yet? - Are NCAA Beach Volleyball Players better than AVP players? - Can the AVP League survive? - What mental skills do you need to make the jump to the next level? And so much more. SHOOTS!

People in this episode

Host: Travis Mewhirter

Topics covered

• beach volleyball
• AVP
• Olympic qualification
• NCAA players
• international players
• mental skills

Keywords

• AVP
• Olympic qualification
• NCAA
• beach volleyball
• international players
• mental skills

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AVP, USA Volleyball, NCAA

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