Ian Eibbitt has done it all! He played for the Scarborough Solars growing up, represented Team Ontario at the Canada Games, competed on the Labatt Tour before moving into a leadership role as tournament director, commentator and more. Ian was one of the owners of Overkill, the world famous Canadian Volleyball Clothing Brand. Many would know Ian as the Director of Camp Madawaska. As a coach Eibbitt has coached with Leaside Volleyball Club, Durham Attack, Team Ontario, and Team Canada. He has earn...
Mar 19, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 151
Garrett and Josh are joined by returning guest Jake MacNeil and from Episode 19 of the Passin Dimes Podcast, Joel Hannan! This week the squad discusses "twisted history" of our sport and plays out "what if" situations including what if Garrett doesn't go to U21 Worlds, instead Sam plays with Dan Dearing, or if Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena move to Qatar and compete internationally for them and finally what if the court was still 9x9m. We finish with a discussion about what our sport needs and ...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 150
Nathan Groenveld is a 2x OUA Champion, 1st Team All Canadian, OUA Player of the Year, National Team Alumni, Former Niagara College Head Coach winning an OCAA Championship and CCAA Bronze and current Head Coach of the York Lions. Nate shares his playing career and how he got into coaching. We take a deep dive into his coaching process and how he loves to go down the rabbit hole and look into the details of player development. We couldn't be more excited to partner with Momentum Pro Camps. Momentu...
Mar 12, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 149
Episode 3 of Sharp Cuts is here! Garrett and Josh are joined by returning guests Dan Dearing, Oscar Kahu and new guest...Canadian Olympian, U21 World Champion and all round good guy Sam Schachter! The squad discusses their "welcome" to the tour moment, McDonalds in China, life on tour, relentless self belief and so much more! We couldn't be more excited to partner with Momentum Pro Camps. Momentum Pro Camps runs volleyball camps across Ontario, bringing professional athletes, coaches and resourc...
Mar 08, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 148
Volleyball Guru Nathan Janzen joins the show! Nathan is currently an assistant coach with the McMaster Marauders Women's Team. Nathan has coached high school, club, Team Ontario, Canada Games, Team Canada, and was Head Coach of the Niagara Knights Women's Team of the OCAA. Nathan is a Data Volley expert who uses his knowledge of data to effect training any player development. We couldn't be more excited to partner with Momentum Pro Camps. Momentum Pro Camps runs volleyball camps across Ontario, ...
Mar 05, 2021•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 147
Sharp Cuts Episode 2 features Garrett May, Josh Nichol, the Big Shooter himself John May and the Real Deal Jake MacNeil! The group discusses their ignition point when they fell in love with volleyball, how they handle chirping and tough situations, how long an NBA team would need before they can win USports and so much more! Be sure to check out Club Json at https://www.clubjson.com/ Use promo code dimes to get 15% off your order. Any order over $99 in North America will get free shipping! We co...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 146
Steven Abrams makes his second appearance on the show and this time brings rising star Jonny Pickett! Both Abrams and Pickett are training with Team Canada at the National Excellence Program (NEP) and have represented Canada at Youth World Championships on the beach. During league play the two friends are rivals as Steven plays for the Windsor Lancers and Jonny plays for the Guelph Gryphons. Use promo code goldenboy to get 25% off your order. Check out Club Json at https://www.clubjson.com/ Any ...
Feb 26, 2021•55 min•Ep. 145
Welcome to the first ever episode of Sharp Cuts! Passin Dimes has joined forces with Garrett May and Yes Guy Gaming to bring you a new show concept. Get ready from some hot takes, strong opinions, enemies to become friends, friends to become enemies and a good time to be had by all. Joining Josh and Garrett this week is Oscar Kahu, member of Crush Volleyball Club, Canada's #1 Beach Crew, George Brown Huskies and creator of Volley Chirps. Also joining the show is the man, the myth, the legend Dan...
Feb 22, 2021•57 min•Ep. 144
Pierce Johnson joins the show to talk about growing up in the Chatham Kent area, being everyone's rival with CK in high school volleyball, playing club for the Ballhawks and LVC, his career as a Windsor Lancer, and now currently working with the National Excellence Program in Gatineau. Pierce has represented Canada at FISU Games twice, won OUA West Player of the Year, and is a 2x Windsor Lancer Male Athlete of the Year. Use promo code goldenboy to get 25% off your order. Check out Club Json at h...
Feb 19, 2021•56 min•Ep. 143
The one and only Sebastian Lethbridge joins the show! Seb has accomplished a lot in our sport! He's a provincial champion and national medalist at the club level, a Beach Nationals Silver Medalist, 3x OCAA Champion, CCAA National Champion and 3x Medalist, has represented Canada the Youth level and FISU games. He was named "Mr. Volleyball" and won the Ken Davies award from the Ontario Volleyball Association. We are lucky to have Sebastian take the time to tell us about his career and pass on some...
Feb 12, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 142
Jason Trepanier is the Executive Director of Volleyball Nova Scotia’s. Before joining VNS Jason was the Technical Director for the Ontario Volleyball Association. Jason deserves a lot of credit for his work implementing Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD). He has also overseen and developed policies and procedures for the Regional Teams, Provincial Teams, Beach Tours, Indoor Competitions, Club Accreditation, High Performance Sport Initiative and Quest for Gold programs. As a player Jason repres...
Feb 05, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 141
Waterloo Warriors Head Coach Shayne White joins the show! Shayne has an impressive coaching resume that includes Team Canada Junior National Team Assistant, Head Coach and Assistant Coach of the Wilfred Laurier Men's and Women's programs, Canada Games, OVA Indoor Development Coach, Team Ontario mentor coach and much more! We hope you enjoyed the Shayne White Show! He shared some amazing stories and great coaching tips. Please leave a 5 Star Review and keep those comments coming! We are over the ...
Jan 29, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 140
USA Star, AVP Vet, and 5xNorceca Medalist, Mark Burik joins the show! Mark is currently the CEO/Head Coach of https://www.betteratbeach.com/ Mark has played on all major tours and represented the USA at the Pan Am Games in Peru! On the indoor side Mark played at George Mason University before playing professionally in Sweden, Norway, and Croatia. Mark shared so many amazing stories from his playing and coaching career as well as some amazing road stories. We are over the moon to partner with Clu...
Jan 22, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 139
Katarina Pantovic has already accomplished so much in our sport! She was a Team Canada's Youth National Team where she represented us at Norceca and World Championships. Most recently she trained with our Full Time Training Group. She has also been a member of Team BC and is a Canada Cup Gold Medalist. With Thunder Volleyball Club she is a provincial champion, all-star and MVP. Kat is also a superstar on the beach where she has represented Team BC at the Canada Cup and finished 9th at the Vancou...
Jan 15, 2021•52 min•Ep. 138
Frank St-Denis is a life long learner. Frank is the co-creator of the From the First Chair Podcast and has coached at the High School, Club, Provincial Team, Canada Games and National Team levels. Frank shares some great tips on athlete identification, seasonal planning, teaching and learning. We hope you enjoyed this episode! Please leave a 5 Star Review and keep those comments coming! We are over the moon to partner with Club J.Son and support friend of the show Jeff Millar. Check out their cl...
Jan 08, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 137
Superstar Autumn Bailey makes her second appearance on the show! Autumn is currently with Team Canada's Women's Indoor Team. An injury caused her to miss her pro season in Italy this year. Autumn tells us all about her injury and her rehab program. She also shares Tom Black stories, attacking tips and so much more! We hope you enjoyed Autumn's second time on the show! Please leave a 5 Star Review and keep those comments coming! We are over the moon to partner with Club J.Son and support friend o...
Dec 30, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 136
Canadian Star Setter Dustin Schneider joins the show to tell us about his career. Dustin played for the University of Winnipeg Wesmen in where he won the CIS championship in 2007 and was named Championship MVP. Dustin would go on to join our National Team in 2007 where he would help Canada earn medals at the Norceca Championships in 2011, 2013 and 15, lead Canada to World League Finals and a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. Professionally Dustin played in Austria, Portugal...
Dec 23, 2020•59 min•Ep. 135
Playing and Coaching Legend Hernan Humana joins the show! Hernan coached John Child and Mark Heese at the 1996 Olympics where the team won a bronze medal. He played for the Chile National Team for 11 seasons, is a three-time OUA East coach of the year award winner, former director of the Elite Beach Volleyball Club, OVA Technical Director, proud parent to friends of the show Melissa and Felipe Humana-Paredes. Hernan is the author of Playing Under the Gun, a book detailing Hernan's playing experi...
Dec 18, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 134
OUA Player of the Year, 2x CIS All Canadian, 2x OUA First Team All-Star, OVA Provincial Champion, OFSAA Medalist, and friend of the show Eric Simon joins the podcast! Eric grew up in London and played for Oakridge, Forest City, Western University before playing at a high level on the beach and professional volleyball in Sweden! Eric shared some amazing stories including how he worked himself into a great player and an April Fools prank in Sweden that went way to far. We hope you enjoy this episo...
Dec 11, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 133
Isaac Kneubuhl is a 2x Hawaii High School State Player of the Year, Division I Collegiate All American at Cal State Northridge, European Indoor Professional Athlete and former member of the USA Men’s National Volleyball Team. Since finishing his playing career Isaac has become an expert in the area of volleyball biomechanics, specifically the approach and armswing. Follow TorqVB on Instagram and YouTube to learn more! https://www.instagram.com/torqvb/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkBuAm1dSsc...
Dec 04, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 132
Andrew Hinchey joins the show! Andrew is the owner and Head Coach of Soul Beach Volleyball. As an athlete Andrew was a member of Team Canada, earning two silver medals on the NORCECA tour. Andrew also had a lot of success on the NVL and OVA Beach Tours. Before going beach full time Hinchey played at the University of Western Mustangs where he set for the squad for five seasons. As a coach Andrew has worked with Durham College where he was OCAA’s coach of the year in 2010. We discuss Andrew's gri...
Nov 27, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 131
USA National Team Libero Justine Wong-Orantes joins the show! Justine started playing club volleyball at age 6, is the youngest known player to ever earn a AAA CBVA rating, represented the USA at the Youth World Championships twice, won a National Championship, NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team, Two-time AVCA All-America First Team, and Female Athlete of the Year at Nebraska. With the National Team Justine has won the Best Digger at 2019 NORCECA Women's Continental Championship, named Best L...
Nov 20, 2020•58 min•Ep. 130
Janelle Albert has accomplished so much in her young career. She is a provincial champion in the OVA, OCAA, and OUA. She is a National Champion in club, USports and an CCAA Bronze Medalist. She was also named to the OUA All Rookie Team, OCAA Player of the Year, OCAA First Team All Star, CCAA Player of the Year, and an OVA All Star. Janelle has also competed in the One Volleyball League for the Q2 Panthers. We hope you enjoy this episode! Please leave a 5 Star review and the best compliment you c...
Nov 13, 2020•51 min•Ep. 129
World Champion and Canadian Olympian Sarah Pavan joins the show!! Sarah and partner Melissa Humana-Paredes won the 2019 World Championships. Also on the beach Sarah has earned a 5th at the 2016 Olympic Games, 3x FIVB World Tour Best Blocker, Commonwealth Games Champion, and 17-time World Tour medals Sarah Pavan attended the University of Nebraska where she was named a 4-time First-Team All-American, National Player of the Year and Honda Broderick Cup as the top female student-athlete in the coun...
Nov 06, 2020•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 128
9Man Superstar Justin Lam joins the show! Justin played indoor volleyball in high school with friend of the show Nate Ngo (episode 41)before playing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. On the 9man circuit Justin was a member of West Coast with volleyball superstars Kevin Wong and Mike Lambert. Justin would later help start SF Paai Kau Smash. Overall Justin has won six (6) North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament (N.A.C.I.V.T.) Majors, including a 3-peat with Smash! If y...
Oct 30, 2020•55 min•Ep. 127
Grant O'Gorman has already accomplished so much in his young career. At only 26 Grant has represented Canada over 90 times internationally, earning 13 podium finishes including winning the Sydney 2 Star, Silver at the Edmonton 3 Star, and two (2) Youth World Championships Medals. Before joining the Canadian National Team Grant won several Provincial and National Championships on the beach and as an indoor player with the Crush Volleyball Club. Hear all about his journey including mindset, advers...
Oct 23, 2020•57 min•Ep. 126
Paul Podstawka joins the show! Paul is a former member of Team Canada's Beach National Team. Paul has won Nationals, Provincials, Center of Gravity Champion, and has represented Canada several times on the FIVB World Tour and at Youth World Championships. Paul played indoor at York University where he is an OUA Champion, Second Team All Star and All Rookie Team award winner. Paul transferred to McMaster later in his career where he helped the team earn a Final 4 Finish. After his playing days Pa...
Oct 16, 2020•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 125
One of the best personalities in our sport, Steve Delaney joins the show! Steve grew up playing for West Side Volleyball Club before joining the Toronto Ruffriders at a young age. Steve would leave Ontario to attend the University of Winnipeg before playing pro in Finland and France. After playing pro indoors Steve would play pro beach on the FIVB, AVP, and Labatt Tours. Steve started his coaching career with the Halton Hurricanes where he helped the team win a Provincial and National Championsh...
Oct 09, 2020•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 124
Canadian Legend Steve Brinkman joined the show to share his experience in our sport. Steve played 17 years for Team Canada, playing in over 300 international matches. Some highlights include a bronze medal at the Pan Am Games, finishing 7th at World Cup, and 11th at World Championships. Before joining the National Team, Steve played at the University of Manitoba where he won a CIS National Championship. Professionally Steve has played in Belgium, China, France, Greece, Italy, Japan and Russia, w...
Oct 02, 2020•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 123
Dr. Andrew Sulatycki had an early start in our sport. Andrew's parents Frank & Rozika Sulatycki are Hall of Famers in the OVA, OCAA and CCAA. Andrew was a member of Team Ontario, he was a 5 year starter at York University, winning 2x OUA Championships, he played professionally in Slovenia’s premiere division, won the 2012 Canadian National Men’s Open Championship and 2014 OVL Provincial Championship with the Toronto Ruffriders, and is currently a member of the Canadian Masters Volleyball tea...
Sep 25, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 122
