Episode 282, College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20 - 2025 Finale 5-21-25
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 and/or bold predictions for 2026!
We're all extremely thankful for your listening and watching in 2025! We'll hit a few topics this summer as they arise! Stay tuned!
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Episode 281, College Volleyball Weekly, Men's Top 20, NCAA Championship Episode, 5-12-25
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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Episode 280, College Volleyball Weekly, Men's Top 20: NCAA Championship Episode 5-7-25
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!
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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Episode 278, College Volleyball Weekly Beach Top 20, Week 9 - Postseason Chatter, 4/29/25
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 single-elimination dual in the first round.
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!