The Viral Volley Podcast

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 Stetson Head Coach of Beach Volleyball, Kristina Hernandez, discussing recent growth and changes to the NCAA Collegiate Beach game, preview of the A-Sun Conference teams and other top NCAA teams, along with top athletes to watch.

On this special episode of College Volleyball Weekly on The Viral Volley Podcast Rob Espero speaks with the former No. 1 pair in 2021 for LSU to reflect on the 2021 Collegiate Beach season, how they came together, their 1st-ever AVP season, and the McKibbin Brothers'/SharpVision TX 4-Man this coming weekend.

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Week 14 saw a great docket of top 5 teams squaring off, regular season champions in some conferences and in one case a tournament field and seedings set. The CVW crew breaks down what happened in Week 14 and inserts their insights, opinions and in some cases, complaints.

In addition, we discuss Jay's 1st-ever Conference/NCAA MVB Tournament Bracket, pick our "Ballers of the Week," and discuss some of the key matches in Week 15 to watch out for!

Things are "kinda" sorting out across the conferences, but still not secure with surprise results, injuries and adjustments playing key factors to what we're seeing in the final few weeks of the 2024 regular season. As always, the Coaching Panel runs down summaries of what's happening in each of the NCAA-tourney bid conferences, The Big West, Conference Carolinas, EIVA, MIVA, MPSF and the SIAC. The coaches then take over and direct the discussion to tourney selection, All-America selections and other interesting factoids. Or course, they always end on their "Players of the Week" and "Whatcha Watchin'" in week 14!

With Week 6 in the books and a handful of top 20 teams idle the student-athletes drive the discussion-- which essentially ended up being a "Death Volley Invitational" summary/recap episode and chatting about how the top teams are getting it done. With that, we discuss some of the key performers during the week, athletes with milestone achievements-- like CVW's own Alli Hansen who has amassed 100 career wins. In our discussions, Cal Poly has been beyond good-- and the Mustangs have done it under the radar with an over 80% winning efficiency at each of their flights. After all that we'll drop some top duals to watch for the weekend!