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...
May 22, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 287
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.
May 12, 2025•52 min•Ep. 286
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!
May 07, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 285
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.
May 07, 2025•36 min•Ep. 284
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 t...
Apr 30, 2025•36 min•Ep. 283
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 b...
Apr 30, 2025•32 min•Ep. 282
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.
Apr 30, 2025•33 min•Ep. 281
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 t...
Apr 28, 2025•48 min•Ep. 280
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!
Apr 24, 2025•39 min•Ep. 279
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-ev...
Apr 23, 2025•33 min•Ep. 278
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...
Apr 21, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 277
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 ...
Apr 16, 2025•30 min•Ep. 276
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 ...
Apr 14, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 275
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!
Apr 10, 2025•50 min•Ep. 274
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" s...
Apr 07, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 273
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 discus...
Apr 02, 2025•35 min•Ep. 272
The 13th week of the D1-2 NCAA Men's Volleyball season and it was full of upsets, incredible action, and fantastic highlights. There are no more undefeated teams and jostling for conference titles and post-season seedings are shifting on a weekly basis in some cases. Through all the chaos, the CVW Coaches' Panel shares what caught their attention around NCAA Men's D1-2 volleyball. From the upsets, five-setters to the walk-off aces, they guys break down the play and offer their take and their pla...
Mar 31, 2025•58 min•Ep. 271
The Collegiate Beach Volleyball season just surpassed the midway point and we're seeing shifts from 2-5 without a lot of big changes in the rest of the AVCA top 20. A lot of the top teams were idle in week 5, but the ones that weren't saw solid action at the Big West Challenge in San Luis Obispo, CA and East Meets West in Austin,TX. Although teams may have split their duals this last weekend, without a doubt the teams are developing in a beneficial way as we move closer to conference tournaments...
Mar 27, 2025•50 min•Ep. 270
🚨 EPISODE DROP 🚨 College Volleyball Weekly Men's Top 20, Week 12 Recap, 3/24/25 This week our coaching panel (except Brad) were really "salty," so we start off on a grumpy note. Week 12 saw MANY 5-set battles-- particularly involving many MIVA teams honing their skills and talents to mount a surge as they continue MIVA conference play. With that we saw Theo's Matadors ride into Chicago splitting their top-20 matches with Dan's Flyers and Shane's Ramblers. As expected, we tangent away from voll...
Mar 25, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 269
SHE'S BACK! Kelly Belardi of No. 7 Stanford rejoins CVW Beach for a very detailed analysis of the top 20 this week. From looking at the duals and invitationals there was nothing but hot action no matter where you were watching from! From there we discuss some of the top performers last week and in 2025 so far. We end the episode discussing what duals we'll be watching for this weekend (or for Kelly, how she's going to enjoy life after her Finals are done)! #NCAABEACH
Mar 19, 2025•53 min•Ep. 268
This show is dedicated to Cindy Luis, pioneering Hawaiian journalist and passionate writer/follower/fan of volleyball who passed unexpectedly this last weekend. If you would like to send notes to her son, Tiff Wells, who is a UH Broadcaster, please feel free to email Rob at rob@robonthemic.com. Rob will forward Tiff's contact info to you. Week 11 of the NCAA Men's Volleyball season did not disappoint! Upsets happened, athletes rose to the occasion and teams tightened up races and rattled the At-...
Mar 17, 2025•55 min•Ep. 267
The CVW BEACH T20 crew discusses the action at the TCU Invitational and MPSF Rumble with a few other big tournaments thrown in. Along with the results (with some upsets), they pick out their top athletes/teams during the week 3 action. On this episode Kylie & Sydney pick topics to discuss: internationals in Beach VB and the NCAA Collegiate Beach Championship format! #NCAABEACH #NCAAVOLLEYBALL #NCAABEACHVB
Mar 12, 2025•41 min•Ep. 266
This week, it was confirmed that there were no upsets to be had in D1-2 play, but some pretty significant statements about teams who are heating up during conference play. CSUN Head Coach Theo Edwards starts off with Rob discussing some of the top matches of the week, while Jay Hosack of George Mason drops in HOT, with Dan Friend of Lewis just minutes later. The guys make it in time to pick their "Ballers of the Week." From there we talk about the top matches to look for in Week 11 and the popul...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 265
This week our athlete panel of Kylie Wickley (Texas) and Sydney Miller (Hawaii) with Rob discuss what was a week with only a couple upsets, but interesting movement in the AVCA Top 20. The panel discusses eye-catching results, top teams/pairs/athletes during the week! New this week, Cal's French Net Force Marilu Pally joins in her own segment, "Marilu's MPSF Memo" discussing the climate of the MPSF as one of the top conferences in the nation (since there is no longer a Pac-12)!
Mar 05, 2025•44 min•Ep. 264
It's a "Coaches' Takeover" at College Volleyball Weekly as we recap most of the action of Week 9 in Division 1-2 Men's Volleyball. No. 4 Hawaii flexed their muscle all-around on then No, 2 UCI-- and made a STRONG case as to why they should be in the discussion for the post-season. In Week 9, the Battle for Chicago and Battle for Jersey all occurred to name a few. From there, they guys pick their players of the week and matches to watch in Week 10. As promised, we run into our "Fan Questions" seg...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 263
After one week of play the action did not disappoint! Kylie and Sydney give an update of what their teams (Texas & Hawaii) did this last weekend competitively. From there we get into the nitty-gritty! Taking center stage was the Outrigger/Duke Kahanamoku Tournament that featured nothing but top 12 teams-- which brewed a handful of upsets! We then take a peak at other eye-catching results, top teams and top pairs for the week. As always, we pick a few tourneys and/or duals you fans may want t...
Feb 27, 2025•37 min•Ep. 262
Week 8 of the NCAA Men’s D1-2 season brought about the emergence of the Bearcats of McKendree, the rejuvenated Bruins, and streaking Matadors! In addition to the teams that are grabbing the headlines, there is MIVA madness as the teams tussle in the first half of conference play. Then there is the EIVA– where teams are flipping the script on historic powerhouses while others are waiting to see how teams find their rhythm. From there the guys pick their “Ballers of the Week” and matches to look o...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 261
And the 2025 NCAA Collegiate Beach season less than a few days away and the chatter and buzz are running HOT! College Volleyball Weekly Beach Top 20 brings some of the top athletes in the game to "talk shop" on their "Sandy Colleagues" across beach courts throughout the nation! One returner is back-- Kylie Wickley of Texas, whos program is starting out in the top 15, and newcomer Sydney Miller of No. 12 Hawaii. The CVWBT20 crew discuss the Preseason AVCA Poll, and touch on the TruVolley Poll. Fr...
Feb 19, 2025•30 min•Ep. 260
Week 7 has been one of the most intense weeks of the the 2025 season with 8 upsets and boatload of 5-setters. With those results we witnessed some teams levelling up while others stumbled. With that, the CVW panel discusses some of the top 20 results, teams and performers of Week 7! The panel picks some matches to watch out for in Week 8 and only Jay decides to drop a "Hot Mic" thought! Thanks for viewing/listening to College Volleyball Weekly!
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 259
As the season gears up in the next few days Rob chats with some of the players to watch during the 2025 season. Sydney Miller of Hawaii chats about her beginnings in volleyball through her decision to play Collegiate Beach at Hawaii. We then discuss her first two seasons with Chandler Cowell and Anna Maidment through her two seasons so far. Sydney An All-Big West honoree and 2024 AVCA Top Flight recipient Sydney is looking to help the Sand Bows get to another post-season appearance! Be sure to w...
Feb 17, 2025•34 min•Ep. 258
