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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 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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Episode 273, College Volleyball Weekly Beach Top 20:...

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2025/04/23

In this BONUS Beach Episode, TCU's Tania Moreno jumps onto the pod/vodcast to discuss her beginnings in volleyball with a pro-beach volleyball Mom and starting her volleyball career in the sand chasing volleyballs as a toddler. We also talk about her competing at the international level in Europe at a young age and connecting with Daniela Alvarez (Dani). From that relationship at the Spanish Federation, Tania found her way to TCU to be a part of a lot of program firsts-- that included a first-ever

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01:13:49

Episode 272, College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20,...

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2025/04/21

This week we jump right into the post-regular season coverage discussing the early 2025 Conference Champions out of the SIAC, ECC and IVA--(some of which don't receive automatic berths to the NCAA Men's Volleyball Championship). From there we break down teams and conferences that are in Conference Championship play or about to begin. Only a few topics, but LOTS of content within each of the matchups! Tap on bios for @therobonthemic or @viralvolleymedia links to either YouTube or podcast episodes

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29:55

Episode 271, College Volleyball Weekly Beach Top 20,...

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2025/04/16

For Week 8, we thought we'd change it up and talk to one of the top Head Coaches on the current top team in the nation, Jenny Jordan of UCLA Beach. Rob and Jenny discuss her transition from Assistant, Associate and now Head Coach of the Bruins. We discuss the many roles she serves outside of the position like being a wife and mom to incredible athletes, and how some don't realize that her daughter can ball also-- Jaylen at Long Beach St.! We also discuss the formation of her staff, expectations of

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01:26:27

Episode 270, College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20,...

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2025/04/14

This week some teams conclude conference play like the MIVA, Conference Carolinas, SIAC and IVA. Other conferences like the Big West, MPSF, NEC and EIVA still have battles with post-season conference tournament and At-Large implications. There was no shortage of action as we saw big wins in unexpected places and high-flying performances by pin-attackers across the nation. We saw 10,370 fans each night in the Long Beach St./Hawaii series (SO GOOD FOR MEN'S VOLLEY), who were treated by insane and

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50:05

Episode 269, College Volleyball Weekly Beach Top 20,...

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2025/04/10

In Week 6 most of the the top 20 teams were either a) in Tallahassee, FL for the Florida St. Unconquered Invitational, b) in Laguna Beach, CA for the Best in the West, or c) idle for the week. The CVW student athletes with Rob discuss what they saw this last week primarily in the top 10, but touch on a few other teams. From there, Rob asks the athletes to summarize where the top 11 teams are at as far as competition!

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01:12:50

Episode 268, College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20,...

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2025/04/07

Week 14 brought about unexpected upsets, split series and marquee performances by the usual suspects. Three of the top 5 teams were not immune to the upset bug, but recovered on night 2! With all the upsets the races are getting tighter in each affected conference! Along with upsets were the expected results in the other matches as we near post-season conference play!From there we hit up some of the top performers of the week according to the coaching panel. Also, we throw down some "Hot Mic"

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35:13

Episode 267, College Volleyball Weekly, Beach Top 20,...

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2025/04/02

It's a BEACH BOW TAKEOVER!This week's episode has Hawaii's Sydney Miller and Alana Embry jumping into the weekly recap of Collegiate Beach Volleyball! The Death Volley Invitational-- which gathered 8 of the top 15 teams in the nation-- took center stage as a couple upsets transpired along with breakout play by pairs/athletes. In other action, top ranked teams did what they were supposed to as they head into Week 7. From there we all choose our top athletes/pairs of the week, then finally discuss

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