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April 7

"Everyone is Good"

Good morning, beach volleyball fans,

That quote above is from John Mayer, head coach of former No. 2-ranked LMU who had front-row seats to more chaos in NCAA Beach Volleyball, where -- take a deep breath -- Cal Poly upset both LMU AND UCLA...and then lost to Long Beach. LMU recovered from both the Poly Loss and a stunner to Stetson... to also beat UCLA, who had been ranked No. 1 for several weeks this season, while USC stumped Stanford.

In Tallahassee, meanwhile, Texas, LSU, and my 'Noles all came down to a third set on a final court against one another; Texas came away undefeated and is playing exceptionally well, while the Noles went 4-1 and LSU went back to Baton Rouge 3-2 but 5 points away from being 5-0.

It's stressful, but so dang fun. Parity all over the map in the NCAA, where, yes, "everyone is good."

There's your lay of the land for NCAA Beach Volleyball: Everyone is good.

As for the lay of the land of the rest of the beach volleyball world, I got you covered on this week's podcast.

The week in SANDCAST Studios

This past week's podcast was the first solo episode we've ever done for our Wednesday pod, a similar format to Road to Paris but this time covering everything you need to know about the 2025 beach volleyball season:

• ​Listen to the audio​
• ​Watch the video​

Photo Galleries!

We have more photo galleries this week.

• Stephen Fitzgerald was there to shoot Northridge vs. Bakersfield beach volleyball​
• Andy Gordon nabbed USC vs. Pepperdine indoor​

News Around the Beach

• The AVP has given out wild cards. Kristen Nuss and Taryn Brasher, and Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson, are both straight into the 2025 AVP League. Kelly Cheng and Molly Shaw...are not. Interesting. I wrote about it here. ​
• We now have an ad free tier for audio. Tired of listening to ads? I saw a bunch of comments on the ad frequency in Rogan podcasts, and figured I'd give our listeners an ad-free option. For 5 bucks a month, you no longer have to listen to ads, and you support the show. Win win. Here's the link where you can become a patron. ​
• FSU Camps coming this summer! We're running a camp on July 12, followed by a BVNE tournament the next day. Should be awesome. Sign up here.
• Watch SANDCAST Episodes Early! Become a member of our YouTube Channel and you'll get every piece of content days before anybody else.
• Coming up on Wednesday we have James Shaw and Molly Shaw, the latest new power couple on the AVP and Beach Pro Tour.

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Appreciate y'all for listening, reading, and loving the beach like we do.

Have a great week!

SHOOTS!

SANDCAST Team

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