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The Viral Volley Podcast

Viral Volley Media

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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Episode 289, College Volleyball Weekly, Men's Top 20,...

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2025/12/29

In this week’s episode we catch up on A LOT of news from the last 6 months with special guest, Men’s Volleyball Influencer, Joe McCurdy and George Mason Head Coach, Jay Hosack.Firstly, we honor and remember Glen Lietzke, who passed away on Christmas morning. Glen was a generous supporter of volleyball who impacted thousands by his love and support of the game. From there we hit on the news of announced retirements, program discontinuations, movements and “resurrections.” With all the growth we

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38:59

Episode 288, College Volleyball Weekly, Men's Top 20:...

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2025/12/12

With the unexpected retirement of Long Beach St.'s 22-year, Hall of Fame, Head Coach Alan Knipe, Beach did not have to look far or too long to find who would succeed Al. New Head Coach Nick MacRae has been in Long Beach his entire life, and with the 49ers/Beach for 14 years!Nick takes some time to discuss his experience at Long Beach St., his relationship with Alan, how he plans to continue the winning ways of the beach in the near and distant future!

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11:29

Viral Volley Podcast, 2025 Big West Women's...

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2025/11/26

The Gauchos were on a mission to start 2025-- to get back into the Big West Women's Volleyball Championship-- which they have done. They're running one of the best 2-setter offenses in the land with potent attackers all-around. OH Eva Travis and MB Layanna Green talk about the season so far and what Gauchos potential could be in this year's championship.

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18:34

2025 Hawaiian Islands presents the Outrigger Big West...

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2025/11/25

The Mustangs had a strong and talented group of athletes coming back for 2025, and with that the goal of playing in their 3rd Big West Championship! Talking about their Cal Poly team with the No. 2 seed of the Hawaiian Islands presents the Outrigger Big West Women's Volleyball Championship are Kendall Beshear and Ally Elif Hurriyet. Be sure to jump into ESPN+ November 26th-29th to watch the action! Rob Espero and former Long Beach St. standout, USC Beach National Champion, and pro beach volleyball

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14:18

Viral Volley Podcast, 2025 Big West Women's...

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2025/11/24

In 2025, UC Davis has completed their first-ever conference championship and made Head Coach Dan Connors the winningest coach in Aggie volleyball history. They've got a solid core of athletes at each position who have been competing together for years! Talking about their team with the No. 1 seed of the Hawaiian Islands presents the Outrigger Big West Women's Volleyball Championship are Mia Starr and Ally Chandler.

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15:38

Viral Volley Podcast, 2025 Big West Women's...

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2025/11/23

Long Beach St.'s Elise Agi and Madi Maxwell discuss the 2025 season and their path to the 2025 Hawaiian Islands presents the Outrigger Big West Women's Volleyball Championship.

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33:02

Episode 287, College Volleyball Weekly Beach Top 20,...

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2025/11/21

Episode 287 features 2025 AVCA Fall Pairs Champions from Long Beach St., Malia Gementera and Taylor Hagenah. The San Diego County products have been the work-horses for the Beach and have been almost unstoppable their entire first three years at Long Beach St.! We discuss the start of their partnership-- proof that nobody can "ghost" Taylor-- even Malia, their natural success together, winning outside of collegiate beach ball and their road to the 2025 AVCA Pairs Championship!

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49:42

Episode 286, CVW Men's Top 20: The "Since May" Recap,...

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2025/11/05

The "Salty Guys" of College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20 are BACK! Heaps of news has come about since the last ball drop in the Natty match in May so the band got together to talk about SOME (yes, we've got to do a part 2) of the news that has hit D1-2 Men's Volleyball!00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:30 AVCA Hall of Famer: Alan Knipe, Long Beach St. 00:06:00 2025 NCAA D1-2 Coaching Changes 00:34:20 NCAA Tournament Expansion 00:46:00 MPSF & Big West Previews: Others in the Making?

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54:42

Episode 285, College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20:...

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2025/09/11

This summer the USA Men’s U21 team had an extremely talent roster that literally could have run far deeper than the 24 athletes who made the “official” roster– and it was composed of some recently graduated and a lot of current NCAA D1-2 players! What’s that mean you ask? We’ve got a young crew getting ready to take on the world as potential senior national and Olympic team players!In this episode, Head Coach of the history-making USA Men’s U21 team jumps on College Volleyball Weekly Men’s Top 20

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01:01:38

Episode 284, College Volleyball Weekly Beach Top 20,...

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2025/07/24

Big 12 standout Anhlina Khmil of the 2025 NCAA Collegiate Beach National Championship team, TCU jumps onto CVW Beach Top 20 to discuss her happenstance beginnings in indoor volleyball, then making her way over to beach. She also shares about her home and family as Ukraine was being attacked by Russia during the time she was making decisions about competing in Beach Volleyball and attending TCU. From there we recap her career during her Freshman through Junior years, TCU’s uprising and the continued

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24:48

Episode 283, Viral Volley Podcast, Geena Urango &...

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2025/07/10

First episode for the summer after some time off we jump into the AVP Contender Series event, the Denver Open! Heading into the Rockies is always a special event at The Island facility where we would find an unlikely tandem teaming up for this event—Stanford Beach Freshman All-MPSF honoree Avery Jackson, playing her 1st AVP event with former USC standout and long-time AVP star Geena Urango—playing her 86th AVP event! The 2025 Denver Open Champions did not face any resistance until the final—where

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01:12:05

Episode 282, College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20 -...

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2025/05/22

In this final 2025 episode of College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20, we briefly recap the 2025 NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship match, then jump into some of the top news stories of the 2025 season. The topics discuss include "The Moni Effect," Nickie Sanlin, Head Coach at McKendree, the USA Volleyball changes in leadership and National Teams, the explosion of digital content on the Men's D1-2 side, the sudden discontinuation of GCU Men's Volleyball and the impacts, as well as what we learned/saw

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52:10

Episode 281, College Volleyball Weekly, Men's Top 20,...

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2025/05/12

It's NCAA Championship Day to see who becomes the 2025 National Champion! Will it be the "Moni Effect" of No. 1 Long Beach St. claim the hardware, or will No. 3 UCLA "Three-Peat?" Before we discuss that we discuss some of the news items from this last week, the semis and THEN items related to tonight's Championship on ESPN2 at 4:00pm PT/7:00pm ET.

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01:11:00

Episode 280, College Volleyball Weekly, Men's Top 20:...

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2025/05/07

The NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship has begun and we are down to the quarterfinals with the top teams ready to go into battle. The CVW Coaches' Panel break down who we should watch for, what players will/can go big with stellar performances. The panel attempts to make their NCAA predictions but to be honest, most of the pale was hesitant! All this with a few tangents here and there en route to a few laughs as well!

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36:11

Episode 279, CVW and CollegeBeachVB.com Collab - NCAA...

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2025/05/07

CollegeBeachVB.com's (and UCLA Alumna) Jaden Whitmarsh jumps on the show this week to talk about the recently finished 2025 NCAA Beach National Championship inh Gulf Shores, AL. There were plenty of BIG and clutch performances along with a few unexpected results mixed in. All in all, never-before crowned champion is going to emerge with the NC hardware.

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36:08

Episode 278, College Volleyball Weekly Beach Top 20,...

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2025/04/30

For the first time this season EVERYONE on-screen! Marilu Pally of Cal, Sydney Miller of Hawaii and Kylie Wickley of Texas gather to discuss their conference championship tournaments and what grabbed their attention throughout all the action. Stanford made a "statement run", while USC is heating up. Texas won their 1st CCSA, what will end up being the last CCSA tournament EVER. From there we discuss the brackets for the National Championship in Gulf Shores. Kylie and Marilu's teams face off in the

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31:51

Episode 277, College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20,...

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2025/04/30

Breaking last Monday was the devastating news that the top-10 Lopes of Grand Canyon University announced the discontinuing of the Men's Volleyball program. As more details emerge the team was not notified or prepared for this major decision by GCU Athletics Director, Jamie Boggs (@jamieboggsjd). CVW Coaches' Panel of Dan Friend (Lewis), Jay Hosack (George Mason) and Brad Rosstratter (UC San Diego) share their takes on what has transpired and try to shed some insight into this reckless decision by

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33:08

Episode 276, College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20,...

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2025/04/30

Breaking yesterday was the devastating news that the top-10 Lopes of Grand Canyon University announced the discontinuing of the Men's Volleyball program and making it available as club program. CVW Contributor, Theo Edwards of CSUN shares his take on what has transpired and tries to share some insight into the situation.

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48:22

Episode 275, College Volleyball Weekly Beach Top 20,...

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2025/04/28

In this special NCAA Championship episode, the Coaches' Panel had to take care of "house affairs" so Rob brought on NCAA Men's Volleyball Digital Content Creator and influencer, Joe McCurdy. This University of Tulsa graduating senior has a high-charisma, entertaining and hi-volley-IQ inherent in all of his social posts that have created a great deal of buzz from athletes, teams, broadcast personalities and fans throught the NCAA Men's Volleyball world! We explore his beginnings, take a peak at the

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38:37

Episode 274, College Volleyball Weekly Beach Top 20,...

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2025/04/24

Week 8 only saw one team get upset-- three times-- otherwise there were only "baby steps" made for two other teams. Kylie, Sydney and Rob break down the Top 20 and talk about teams’ chances at winning their conference tournaments (8 conference automatics) or receiving one of 8 available At-Larges into the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship!

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