Chip mccaw volleyball gold professional#

Theo Brunner and John Hyden, a team with 16 combined AVP victories, the most recent of which came a year ago in Hermosa Beach, would be in the qualifier. But then he was kinda serious, and when the entry list came out on Friday, he was dead serious. Just a funny little thing to say after a tough go in Manhattan where he was knocked out by Eric Beranek and Bill Kolinske, a team that had come out of the qualifier.

I thought Theo was joking when, at practice on Wednesday morning, he said that he and Hyden were going to be in the qualifier. In any event, we’re back in Chicago, on beaches that may or may not be washed out, with a lot of teams that nobody has seen yet, with the freeze rule out the window for the qualifier, and, yeah, John Hyden is in the qualifier. And crazy times for a menagerie of teams, many of whom have broken up and have made new teams, some of which look promising, some of which look like they’ll be, at the very least, a lot of fun to follow.

Chip mccaw volleyball gold professional#

These are crazy times in professional beach volleyball. Look for our women’s preview on Wednesday. The tournament on Lake Michigan starts Thursday with the qualifier. He has won 27 domestic tournaments and one FIVB.Īnd he’s back in the qualifier for AVP Chicago. Now, I look roughly the same age – I will never grow out of this baby face - but since Huntington Beach of 2002, when Hyden was seeded Q5 with Chip McCaw, he has played in 245 professional events. That’s what I looked like the last time John Hyden played in an AVP qualifier. He fights with his brothers, thinks taking girls to movies is the most nerve-wracking experience this world has to offer, and has never played volleyball. He’s 12 years old, plays shooting guard for the North Carroll Panthers, midfield soccer for the North Carroll Comets - God bless those days - and first base and pitcher for the Hampstead Heat. The picture you see just below this paragraph is of a young Travis Mewhirter.