The Volleyball Source Podcast: Recent Episodes

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The Volleyball Source Podcast brings you news and notes from the volleyball world!

Eric Loeppky is in the midst of his best pro season yet with Taranto in the Italian SuperLega as one of the highest scoring left sides in the best league in the world. He chats with Everett about his bounce-back season after a rough National Team summer, how he's balancing being a new dad & a professional, how crazy NCAA women's volleyball, and more!

Everett chats with Dylan Mortensen of the Saskatchewan Huskies after he broke the Canada West for All-Time Points & Kills!

🇨🇦 Daulton Sinoski hails from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and is the lone Canadian in the 🇵🇱 Polish Plus Liga this season! He comes on the podcast to chat about his journey to one of the best leagues in the world, growing up playing volleyball in Saskatchewan, his Métis heritage, and more!

🇨🇦 Sophie Bukovec had a breakout year on the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour after partnering with Brandie Wilkerson and making a run to the 2022 World Championship Finals. If you're a new fan of Sophie's, you might think she came out of no where; but her fans know exactly how much time, patience, and dedication she's put in to the sport to get here!

A VERY special guest joins the show - reigning Champions League champion libero Erik Shoji! Erik and Rob St. Claire get into the 2023 CEV Champions League, the reformatting of the bracket, the pools, the teams, and Zaksa's chances at the three-peat.

Long time Polish friend of the program Paweł Adamczyk, aka Adanos, joins the podcast this week to break down the 2022-2023 Polish PlusLiga season! He and Rob St. Claire get into all 16 teams, a non-Polish team joining the league full time, the title favorites, and what on Earth Zaksa was thinking with their roster management this offseason.

For the second straight year, we have the pleasure of being joined by Tommaso Panini, aka TommyBlizzard, to preview the entire 2022-23 Italian SuperLega club season! Tommy and Rob St. Claire first get an Italian perspective on the Italian men's World Championship win, then break down all 12 team rosters and big news for the upcoming SuperLega season.

On the eve of his official debut as Head Coach of Team Canada Men's Volleyball - 🇨🇦 Ben Josephson sits down to talk to Everett about his passion for coaching the National team, share some of his core beliefs and values, as well give you an inside look into how this new version of the Maple Volleys is going to play.

The CEV Champions league is getting serious with the Top 8 teams in Europe of both genders being drawn for the quarterfinal draw. Dan from FiveOne VB & Everett breakdown the quarterfinal match-ups and give you their prediction for who's going to win it all!

Ronnie CubanSpike joins the podcast to chat about all things Cuban volleyball including breaking down their development system, why so many players have left the National team, the future of Cuban volleyball, and more!

Straight from 🇮🇹 Italy, Tommaso Panini (u/TommyBlizard) joins the podcast to preview the 2021-2022 Italian SuperLega men's volleyball season! We go over the biggest off-season transfers, break down all 13 teams, and give our predictions of the season to come!

The USA was the first country to release their final 12-person Olympic rosters - so Rob St. Claire comes on the show to talk about the final 12 Women & Men who will represent his country at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics!

The Head Coach of the University of Alberta Golden Bears, Brock Davidiuk comes to the show to chat about coaching in the Covid19 era, working with the Youth National team, the growth of Canadian volleyball, and what it was like to play for the National team in the 2000s!

Head Coach of the Canadian Women's National Team 🇨🇦Shannon Winzer comes on the show to chat about the teams 2-4 start and to give us some insight on the new look Team Canada and what it's like to be in the bubble!

🇨🇦 Blair Bann came on the show right before leaving for the VNL Bubble to chat about the Maple Volleys upcoming season including VNL, the Olympics, Kits Beach, and more!! 🇨🇦Jay Blankenau also makes a guest appearance on the show!

The Canadian Women's National Team is competing in the Volleyball Nations League for the first time, so Data Volley guru Chris Elek joins the show to breakdown the new roster, the new coaching staff, and what we can expect from a new age of Canadian Women's Volleyball!

🇨🇦 Justin Lui comes on the show just hours after finding out that Stanford Men's Volleyball has been saved after a landmark decision by the school to save all 11 programs that were on the chopping block. The libero comes on the show to talk about the process as a player, getting named to the Canadian Men's NextGen Program, and what it was like coming out to his Stanford teammates. All that and more in this episode of The Volleyball Source Podcast!

Rob St. Claire from The Deep Corner joins the show to talk about the Volleyball League of America Cup going on this weekend (May 14th-16th) in Indiana!

The CEV Champions League is down to the Super Finals on Saturday, May 1st, so Everett is joined by Volleyball Source's 🇮🇹 Italian insider Giovanni Montanari (u/TheMontyJohnson) and our 🇵🇱 Polish insider Pawel Adamcyk to preview the biggest match of the Club volleyball season!

🇨🇦 Craig Moore from Sideout Beach Volleyball Club in Vancouver joins Everett to chat about the #CancunBubble!

🇨🇦Mike Bossence is a Coach hailing from Pickering, Ontario who led 🇩🇰 Middelfart VK to it's first Danish Cup win in 41 years while also picking up Coach of the Year honours while at it!

He chats with Everett about his 15-year coaching come up, cold calling some of the biggest names in the sport, and the differences between coaching in North America vs Europe!

🇨🇦 Marc Wilson is fresh off his best season with 🇨🇿 CEZ Karlovarsko where not only did he capture his first Czech Extraliga Championship, but also got to go toe-to-toe with the World's best in the Champions League. He chats with Everett about his sketchy start in the sport of volleyball, his long journey to winning his first ever championship, and his change of perspective that helped him redefine success along the way!

Fresh off a 17th in his first official event for 🇺🇸USA Beach - 🇨🇦Chaim Schalk joins to podcast to talk about his run in the first #CancunBubble event with his new partner Theo Brunner, what life is like on the AVP Tour, and the differences between playing for Canada vs. the USA!

🇨🇦 TJ Sanders comes on the show to round out setters week! He tells us all about his work teaching volleyball to Inuit communities in Northern Quebec, talk about his long road of rehab from an injury he can't fix, and a look ahead of what's to come for Team Canada in the VNL Bubble, and of course the Olympics!

🇨🇦Brie King comes on the show fresh off a 3rd-place finish at the inaugural Athlete's Unlimited Women's Pro League to talk about her time in the AU bubble, her unlikely rise in women's volleyball, and leading the Canadian Women's National Team into their first run of the Volleyball Nations League this summer.

An absolute legend of the game, Garth Pischke is the All-Time Winningest Coach in North American Volleyball, a pioneer of the game who stared for Team Canada at their first-ever Olympics in 1976, and then coach 38 years at the University of Manitoba.

This episode was recorded on Saturday March 6th, 2020 right after the 2020 uSports National Championships were canceled due to Covid19.

🇨🇦Nikki Corwall joins the show from the Tik Tok famous Volleybox to chat about her journey to being a National Champion and a professional, as well as a discussions about youth volleyball in Canada!

Dan Meneley from FiveOne VB joins us today to talk about playoff races in Europe's top leagues including Italy, Poland, and Russia!

This was a LONG one, which is pretty standard when Jen Cross comes on the show! Fresh off a CEV Challenge Cup Championship, we talk about winning her first European trophy, the exciting future of the Canadian Women's National Team, gender norms in sport, and much, much more!

🇨🇦 Warren Taylor joins Everett on the podcast to talk about his second season in the Czech Republic, playing volleyball in the age of Covid19, and his path in volleyball, and more!

The first half of the CEV Champions League semi-finals is over, so Rob St. Claire comes on the podcast to break down all four semis!

No stranger to the microphone, FIVB World Tour commentator 🇬🇧 Lewie Lett joins Everett on this episode of the Volleyball Source Podcast to talk about the beach volleyball season opener in Qatar, the Road to the Olympics, and the Cancun bubble!

🇨🇦 Nathan Delguidice joins the show after leading 🇷🇸 OK Ribnica to their first Serbian Cup win! We chat about his season in Serbia, his unlikely path to pro volleyball, and growing up in the small town of Cochrane, Ontario!

Canadian university star 🇨🇦 Eric Loeppky joins the show today to talk about his first year in the 🇮🇹 SuperLega, talking about his glory days as the best player in uSports volleyball, and looking forward to playing for 🇨🇦 Team Canada.

Everett is joined by Dan Meneley from FiveOne VB & Rob St. Claire from the Deep Corner Podcast to talk about the a crazy week in European volleyball, the Italian league playoffs in full swing, and the new Athletes Unlimited Women's Pro Volleyball League in the USA.

Everett talks to 🇨🇦Canadian National team athlete Shainah Joseph about her season in the 🇯🇵 V-League, the future of the 🇨🇦 Women's National team, life as a professional, and more!