Brooke Sweat's guest appearances

Brooke Sweat

SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter

Gametime with Boomer Esiason

Talkin The 239

Brett Favre

Michael Gervais

Connor McDavid

Gabby Reece

Billy Corben

Billie Jean King

Karch Kiraly

Reid Priddy

Mike Campbell

Auston Matthews

Brittany Howard

Tom Izzo

Michelle Meyer

Michael McDowell

George Will

OwlTail

Kerri Walsh-Jennings

Boomer celebrates the summer with three-time Olympic volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh-Jennings and her new Olympic partner "Defensive Player of the Year" Brooke Sweat, as they prepare for Tokyo 2021.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Boomer celebrates the summer with three-time Olympic volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh-Jennings and her new Olympic partner "Defensive Player of the Year" Brooke Sweat, as they prepare for Tokyo 2021. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: <a href="https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Boomer talks with  volleyball's Kerri Walsh-Jennings and her new Olympic partner  Brooke Sweat

:00 Intro 2:15 Interview with Brooke Sweat about the 2020/2021 Olympics, her volleyball career, growing up in SWFL, playing at FGCU while they became D1 and her hopes for next years Olympics with her new partner! 36:35 Reaction to Brooke Sweat interview.  42:00 Sports are allllll the way back.  42:45 Baseball's COVID problems.  43:20 Opening weekend of the NBA's bubble. 48:55 Sixers rant before their last second win over the Spurs. 56:00 NBA predictions.  59:15 Return of the NHL in a bubble North of the border. 1:04:50 UFC Fight night reaction.  1:07:10 The Rock buys the XFL.  1:11:50 Pac 12 list of demands.  

:00 Intro 2:15 Interview with Brooke Sweat about the 2020/2021 Olympics, her volleyball career, growing up in SWFL, playing at FGCU while they became D1 and her hopes for next years Olympics with her new partner! 36:35 Reaction to Brooke Sweat interview.  42:00 Sports are allllll the way back.  42:45 Baseball's COVID problems.  43:20 Opening weekend of the NBA's bubble. 48:55 Sixers rant before their last second win over the Spurs. 56:00 NBA predictions.  59:15 Return of the NHL in a bubble North of the border. 1:04:50 UFC Fight night reaction.  1:07:10 The Rock buys the XFL.  1:11:50 Pac 12 list of demands.

Episode 51 with Brooke Sweat (Olympian and FGCU Legend)

It’s funny, sometimes, the path the universe can choose to take you. One minute, you’re lying on a training table, your torn shoulder being worked on. You’re pondering if this is it, the last tear. Perhaps it’s time to move back to Florida. Have kids. Raise a family. Move on. The next, you’re on a call with Kerri Walsh Jennings, the greatest to ever play the game, one of the most dominant athletes not only in the sport of beach volleyball but of all time. She’s looking for a partner, someone to make a run at the Tokyo Olympics. You’ve been to the Olympics before. You fell short, going 0-3. The sting is still there. You want more. So you take the offer. Your career isn’t over. In fact, this may just be the beginning. This could be the exact moment everything – the knee surgeries and shoulder tears, moving across the country to a state you never wanted to live to, making a career out of a game that you didn’t pick up until after college – has circuitously led to. Maybe this is the reason for all of that. Such is the story of Brooke Youngquist Sweat, one filled with tremendous adversity but magnificent toughness, both of the mental and physical sort. She never meant for beach volleyball to be a career. Her boyfriend in college, Nick Sweat, played. Every now and then she’d hop in. She gave it a go for a bit but didn’t like it much. Wasn’t for her. Then she tried again. Suddenly, the gal from Estero, Fla., the one who would work on her dad’s rock quarry over the summers, was moving to California. Suddenly she was traveling to AVP qualifiers. And then she was qualifying. And winning. Suddenly Brooke Sweat had become the very personification of all things Southern California, the one chasing a pipe dream on a beach, dropping everything to do so, traveling with the rolling circus of grinders and hopefuls that is the AVP Tour. Only it was working. It was in 2012 that Sweat moved to California. Not coincidentally, a year later, partnered with Jen Fopma at Huntington Beach, she won her first tournament. When she wasn’t winning, she was contending, as Sweat, in 2014 with Fendrick, made five straight finals, meeting the same foil every time: Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross. “I just wanted to be on the court against her, she’s always going to make me better,” Sweat said. “I never thought I would be playing with Kerri. Like, no. So it’s kind of cool to be in this position, especially after not knowing if I was going to be playing ever again.” So now here she is. Her knee is healthy. Her shoulder, as is Walsh’s notoriously troublesome shoulder, is rebuilt. On the road with them will be physical therapist extraordinaire Chad Beauchamp. The next two years will be the final push for both Sweat and Walsh Jennings. And then Sweat will return to Florida, where her heart has always been. It will have been a long and winding journey, though what else would you expect from this wonky universe of ours? What fun would the straight path have been, anyway?

It’s funny, sometimes, the path the universe can choose to take you. One minute, you’re lying on a training table, your torn shoulder being worked on. You’re pondering if this is it, the last tear. Perhaps it’s time to move back to Florida. Have kids. Raise a family. Move on. The next, you’re on a call with Kerri Walsh Jennings, the greatest to ever play the game, one of the most dominant athletes not only in the sport of beach volleyball but of all time. She’s looking for a partner, someone to make a run at the Tokyo Olympics. You’ve been to the Olympics before. You fell short, going 0-3. The sting is still there. You want more. So you take the offer. Your career isn’t over. In fact, this may just be the beginning. This could be the exact moment everything – the knee surgeries and shoulder tears, moving across the country to a state you never wanted to live to, making a career out of a game that you didn’t pick up until after college – has circuitously led to. Maybe this is the reason for all of that. Such is the story of Brooke Youngquist Sweat, one filled with tremendous adversity but magnificent toughness, both of the mental and physical sort. She never meant for beach volleyball to be a career. Her boyfriend in college, Nick Sweat, played. Every now and then she’d hop in. She gave it a go for a bit but didn’t like it much. Wasn’t for her. Then she tried again. Suddenly, the gal from Estero, Fla., the one who would work on her dad’s rock quarry over the summers, was moving to California. Suddenly she was traveling to AVP qualifiers. And then she was qualifying. And winning. Suddenly Brooke Sweat had become the very personification of all things Southern California, the one chasing a pipe dream on a beach, dropping everything to do so, traveling with the rolling circus of grinders and hopefuls that is the AVP Tour. Only it was working. It was in 2012 that Sweat moved to California. Not coincidentally, a year later, partnered with Jen Fopma at Huntington Beach, she won her first tournament. When she wasn’t winning, she was contending, as Sweat, in 2014 with Fendrick, made five straight finals, meeting the same foil every time: Kerri Walsh Jennings and April Ross. “I just wanted to be on the court against her, she’s always going to make me better,” Sweat said. “I never thought I would be playing with Kerri. Like, no. So it’s kind of cool to be in this position, especially after not knowing if I was going to be playing ever again.” So now here she is. Her knee is healthy. Her shoulder, as is Walsh’s notoriously troublesome shoulder, is rebuilt. On the road with them will be physical therapist extraordinaire Chad Beauchamp. The next two years will be the final push for both Sweat and Walsh Jennings. And then Sweat will return to Florida, where her heart has always been. It will have been a long and winding journey, though what else would you expect from this wonky universe of ours? What fun would the straight path have been, anyway?

Brooke Sweat: From considering retirement to playing with the GOAT