The Viral Volley Podcast

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/saw and/or bold predictions for 2026!   We're all extremely thankful for your listening and watching in 2025! We'll hit a few topics this summer as they arise! Stay tuned!

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.

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!

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. 

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 the single-elimination dual in the first round.

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 by GCU. Jamie Boggs, Athletic Director: 602-639-6307 #SaveGCUMVB: https://gofund.me/408615c7

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.

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 the early part of the 2025 season then transition through the rest of the season recaps before talking about the NCAA Committee and the 2025 NCAA Collegiate Channpionship in Columbus, OH!

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!

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-ever No. 1 ranking for TCU. In addition, she discusses her journey to the Olympics, coming back to TCU for her Senior season, and what we could expect to see in the 2025 CCSA and NCAA Beach Volleyball Championships!