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Volleyball from sport court to the sand court-- from the preps to the pros and beyond. Home of College Volleyball Weekly Indoor/Beach. Episodes drop “most weeks.” Follow the pod on Instagram at @viralvolleymedia or host Rob Espero at @therobonthemic!
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Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
Tuesday Feb 21, 2023
NOTE: Highlights or the interview to be posted over at VolleyballMag.com for a FULL 2023 Collegiate Beach preview by Travis Mewhirter.
Full interview of Long Beach St. Head Coach of Beach Volleyball, Mike Campbell discussing recent growth and changes to the NCAA Collegiate Beach game, preview of his Long Beach St. and Big West, along with other top NCAA teams and athletes.
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
The CVW crew discusses a handful of top matches this week that include the still unbeaten teams of No. 1 Hawaii, No. 5 Grand Canyon and No. 15 Charleston. Also on the top items of the week are EIVA powerhouse No. 3 Penn St. and deep MPSF team, No. 2 UCLA. It's a pretty good-length discussion so the guys touch briefly on top teams in the conferences and quickly pick their players of the week-- which happen to be all setters (almost).
Also, Dan Friend of Lewis wanted to remind everyone that his matches this week will be Rae Strong Foundation matches where all proceeds benefit families managing pre-mature born babies.
Monday Feb 20, 2023
Monday Feb 20, 2023
NOTE: Highlights or the interview to be posted over at VolleyballMag.com for a FULL 2023 Collegiate Beach preview by Travis Mewhirter.
Full interview of Florida St. Head Coach of Beach Volleyball, Brooke Niles discussing recent growth and changes to the NCAA Collegiate Beach game, preview of the CCSA teams and other top NCAA teams, along with top athletes to watch-- and an anectdotal story of her playing days!
Friday Feb 17, 2023
Friday Feb 17, 2023
2023 is HERE and the CVW team is new and ready go!
This week we meet our Student-Athlete crew, Charlie Ekstrom of Stanford, Alana Rennie of Arizona and newly-added, Kate Privett of Florida St.-- wait, TCU :), to discuss the AVCA Preseason Poll, Fall Competition and NCAA Beach Championships format change. With collegebeachvb.com coming out with their preseason picks Rob thought it would be interesting to ask the Student-Athletes about their top Newcomer of the Year, blocker, defender, team and athlete pics to watch would be in the 2023 season! #ncaabeach
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Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Tuesday Feb 14, 2023
Week 6 proved to be an intensley newsworthy week as the CVW Crew discuss the departure of Miles Partain from UCLA, BYU’s surge, the Matadors’ “magic,” the Warriors awakened from rest and the start of conference play for some teams around the nation. Additionally, the NCAA is down to 3 undefeated teams—No. 1 Hawaii, No. 5 GCU and No. 15 Charleston. How long will these unblemished records stand? Without a doubt these teams are playing high quality ball regardless of who their opponents may be.
As always, the crew picks out a few matches in Week 7 to keep your eyes on! #NCAAMVB
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
Tuesday Feb 07, 2023
I don't know what happened during the original upload but it only stored 16 minutes in the podcast version. If you've listened to the other one, move the slider to the 16:00 minute mark to hear the rest. Sorry everyone, didn't catch it until tonight (2/7/23)
Week 5 proved to be a week full of upsets-- or not-- according to coaches' panel on CVW. But one thing was evident. Jay's Patriots beat Dan's Flyers for his first win! Dan, Jay, Brad and Rob talk about the "(non) upsets" and the key performers of the matches, then discuss where the teams are at. We briefly discuss the 4 remaining undefeated teams of Hawaii, Long Beach St., Grand Canyon and Charleston. Will they remained unblemished after Week 6?
As always, the guys close out the episode with top matches they'll be watching in Week 6! #NCAAMVB
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Monday Feb 06, 2023
Week 5 proved to be a week full of upsets-- or not-- according to coaches' panel on CVW. But one thing was evident. Jay's Patriots beat Dan's Flyers for his first win! Dan, Jay, Brad and Rob talk about the "(non) upsets" and the key performers of the matches, then discuss where the teams are at. We briefly discuss the 4 remaining undefeated teams of Hawaii, Long Beach St., Grand Canyon and Charleston. Will they remained unblemished after Week 6?
As always, the guys close out the episode with top matches they'll be watching in Week 6! #NCAAMVB
Monday Jan 30, 2023
Monday Jan 30, 2023
In this week's episode we have a surprise guest joining the CVW crew in place of Jay Hosck: his former employer, Mark Pavlik of Penn St.!
As always, we discuss the previous week's results along with some of the top peformers, but we also delve into the following topics:
- Long Beach St. Containing the Nittany Lions in Happy Valley. Is LBS the real deal?
- Is Gianni back? If so, what difference will he make being that the 'Lopes are 6-0 and experiencing their best start in program history.
- Only 5 undefeated teams remain in the Top 15: Hawaii, UCLA, Long Beach St., Grand Canyon, and Loyola. Still too early or is this telling of what we could see in the National Chapionship Tournament?
- Just outside the top-15, Charleston is 7-0. What's happening in WV and what does that mean for the EIVA?
We finish out the episode by picking matches to watch in Week 5!
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Theo Edwards of CSUN, Dan Friend of Lewis, Jay Hosack of George Mason and Brad Rostratter of UCSD jump on to talk about the week that was in results, top athlete performances and news related to National Championship volleyball. Key items: First Point Collegiate Challenge in Austin, TX; George Mason Tournament; Undefeated teams: good or bad indicators; top athletes of the week, "Unsung Heroes" as chosen by the coaching panel. Also discussed, how are panels' teams are doing so far.
As always, we end by asking the panel of guys what matches they'll be watcing out for in Week 4 of #NCAAVB!
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Monday Jan 16, 2023
Theo Edwards of CSUN, Dan Friend of Lewis, Jay Hosack of George Mason and Brad Rostratter of UCSD jump on to talk about the week that was in results, top athlete performances and news related to National Championship volleyball. Key items: Penn St. and GCU are both undefeated-- WITHOUT PLAYING THEIR BIG GO TO GUYS! How are they doing it?!?! Also, @VolleyVenue on Instagram posted a graphic that stated that MPSF teams are 23-1 vs. other conferences. Could we see a resurgence of the MPSF this year?
Other miscellaneous items include Lewis' new "signee" and how Theo hasn't aged since 2010!