Passin Dimes Podcast

Superstar Kelsey Veltman joins the show! Kelsey attended Western University where she won player of the year 3 times! After her Mustangs career she played pro in Italy, Germany, Turkey and Serbia, while also playing for Team Canada on the beach and indoors. We hear all about this, take a deep dive into the tactics of middles and so much more! 

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Fresh off his U23 Norceca Bronze win with partner Cam Chadwick, Tynan Gannett joins the show! Tynan has had a unique journey within our sport. Growing up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia he played school and club before discovering beach volleyball during covid. Tynan never played post-secondary indoor, instead focusing on his studies and playing field lacrosse. After an impressive run at Canada Games where he and partner Josh DeYoung finished 4th, Tynan decided to tryout for Team Canada Next Gen where he earned a spot on the National Team. We hear all about this and more! 

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Pierce Johnson returns to the show to talk about his pro season that started in Portugal but quickly changed to Sweden where he is a Cup and League Champion!

Pierce has represented Canada at FISU Games twice and with the Beach National Team, won OUA West Player of the Year, and is a 2x Windsor Lancer Male Athlete of the Year. 

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Pro Player for AS Athlesi Mytiline (Greece), SAIT Trojans Alumni and Provincial & National Team Coach Tyler Latu'ila joins the show! Tyler is also currently studying a Master of High Performance Sport. We talk about growing up in Australia and New Zealand before making the trip to play post secondary in Canada. Tyler had a great experience playing for coach Sean McKay that lead him down a path to pursue coaching further. We cover all of this and more! 

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Trent University Associate Head Coach Rebecca van Staalduinen joins the show! Rebecca grew up playing for the Ganaraska Wolves and DRVC before attending Fleming College and Trent U. At the post secondary level she is an OCAA Bronze Medalist, Academic All Canadian, All Star, and more. Rebecca was an assistant coach with the squad before being named interim head coach and now is Associate Head Coach with friend of the show Head Coach Colin Walker. 

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Women's National Team member Natasha Calkins joins the show! Natasha played for Santa Clara University before transferring to Florida State. Her pro career includes season's in Sweden, Austria, Finland and Turkey, including where she transferred Turkish clubs in the same season. We cover all this and also get into her National Team journey that started way back in 2015! 

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Brandon U Bobcats Coach Grant Wilson joins the show! Grant has been with the Bobcats since day 1, first as an assistant before taking over the first chair. Grant has also coached club, high school, regional team, provincial team, Canada Games, FISU Games, Volleyball Canada Next Gen, you name it! We hear about this, the Bobcats culture, how they convince Australians to live in northern Manitoba and so much more! 

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CCAA Player of the Year Sebastian Lethbridge returns to the Passin Dimes family, this time making his debut on Sharp Cuts. Seb has done it all, player of the year, OCAA Champion, every colour medal you can win at the CCAA, represented Canada on our Youth and FISU Games Teams, a great club career, winning Mr. Volleyball in London. 

We get into tactics when switching levels, why he stayed in the OCAA, a new idea on how refs and captains can communicate, what are the etiquette of the game we can't break, Player and Clown of the Week, and so much more! 

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Double Feature! Jesse Mighton played for Scarborough Solars and Falcons before representing Ontario at the Canada Games, before making the jump to the JR National Team. Jesse started his post secondary career with Queens before he transferred to Dalhousie 

Dan Ota has coached the Dalhousie Tigers for over 20 years, winning AUS coach of the year 16 times. Dan has also coached Canada Games, been an Executive Director and was recently named to the Next Gen coaching staff. 

We cover the early parts of their careers before we take a deep dive into the Dalhousie culture and traditions. 

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Adam Schreimer returns to the show, this time as a USports National Champion Coach! Adam and Ben Ball lead the TWU Spartans to a National Championship this season. We hear all about Adam's journey from player to coach, his philosophy, what he's enjoying in the role and so much more! 

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