The Viral Volley Podcast

Episode 150: College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top 20 | LSU’s Russell Brock, 4/26/22

In this Special Episode of College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top-20, Russell Brock, Head Coach of perennial powerhouse LSU jumps on the show to talk about the start of the 2022 season, the development and transformation of his team and how the Sandy Tigers finished-- all while having multiple, talented pieces to work with-- some who which have very  limited beach volleyball experience.

Also, with the CCSA Beach Championships and goal of competing at the NCAA Collegiate Beach Championships in Gulf Shores, AL, we discuss the state of his team, their readiness for it and the mission of the Sandy Tigers!

Episode 149: College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top 20, 4/21/22

Conference tourneys are in sight and teams are dialing up a level to compete! This week Charlie Ekstrom of Stanford and Rob Espero discuss the results in week 8 and peek at what could happen in week 9.

 

With the regular season coming to a close, based upon results to date Charlie and Rob project what the NCAA Tournament field COULD look like.

Episode 148: College Volleyball Weekly, Men’s D1-2 Conference Tourneys, 4/19/22

NOTE: Apologies to you all who were looking forward to a regular episode. Some times you have to work with what you have. We do have a special guest next week, and it's an individual whose info and data graphics are mindblowing in NCAA Men's Volleyball. The tournament teams willed be revealed and VolleyVenue will be churning out even more infographics!

The CVW Coaches are heading to their respective conference tournaments so we had to record asynchronously and combine them all into one episode. In addition, Rob-on-the-Mic has been working multiple conference finalies, Collegiate Beach Tournaments and fulfilling other USA Volleyball needs.

Given our circumstances above the guys talk about eye-catching results in Week 15 then take a sneak-peek at the upcoming conference tournament matchups!

Episode 147: College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top 20, 4/14/22

In light of our crazy travel and work schedules this week, along with the final 10 days of HUGE regular season play Charlie, Mads and Rob throw down the top-11 results from last week while Mads, shares a little bit about her upcoming weekend at the Center of Effort Challenge at Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo, CA). 

 

It's going to be a crazy ending to the 2022 Collegiate Beach Season here on College Volleyball Weekly! 

Episode 146: College Volleyball Weekly, Men’s D1-2 Top 15, 4/11/22

Coming on over from the VolleyballMag.com's discussion on College Volleyball Weekly, Week 14 brought about a handful of upsets shaking up some of the conference races and seedings for conference tournaments.

 

Today the CVW crew discusses the conference tournaments and some of the likely scenarios. From the Conference Carolinas, EIVA, MIVA, Big West and MPSF, Dan, Dave, and Jay will throw down nuggets (as they always do).

Episode 145: College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top 20, 4/6/22

We're two-thirds way through the 2022 Collegiate Beach season and if anything has been evident it's that it's going to be a wild finish!

Guest Contributor, Alana Rennie of Arizona joins Charlie Ekstrom of Stanford and Rob-on-the-Mic to discuss the Week 6 action of the season highlighting the top teams, talents and play.

The CVW crew then selects some top duals/tournaments as we move closer to conference tournament time, and eventually the NCAA Beach Championship.

 

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Episode 144: CVW Beach Top 20, Asynchronous Episode, 3/30/22

As we've concluded Week 5 of the NCAA Collegiate Beach season it is pretty apparent as good as it has been so far, the best in yet to come. 

 

In this episode, Mads summarizes the experience at the LSU Beach Invitational, top players and teams and her experience of being the dual-deciding-kill-for-match for #4 Florida St. vs. #6 LSU at Death Volley.

 

Charlie then describes her experience at the Pac-12 South Invitational, going 8-0 for the week as a pair, then receiving Pac-12 Player of the Week honors. 

Episode 143: College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top-20, 3/24/22

It's an OWL TAKEOVER! Conference-USA Pair of the Week Mackenzie Morris and Erica Brok of #10 jump into the digital bandwidth to break down Week 4 competition highlighting some of the big duals and matches that went down. As always, we'll drop some numbers, stats and awards as Charlie and Mads would, but from an "Owls'" perspective.

We end the episode discussing "The Watchlist"-- some of the top duals we'll be watching!

Episode 142: College Volleyball Weekly, Men’s D1-2, Top-15

As we are two-thirds the way into the 2022 Men's D1-2 season, the CVW crew thought we should do a conference run-down "around the horn" style. With that we tried to break down the conferences' top teams and what COULD shake down come conference tournament time.

Episode 141: College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top 20, 3/16/22

After 3 weeks of the young Collegiate Beach season Charlie, Mads and Rob take a peak at some of the top performing teams of the top 20, the top performing pairs at each of the 5 flights and upcoming tournaments/duals in week 4.

As an added bonus, the crew takes fan questions to help you discover each of the athletes' experiences, the life as a student-athlete and some other miscellaneous questions!