Ellie Monobe joined the Pepperdine Athletics staff this summer as the new head coach of the women’s swimming and diving program. The former national champion swimmer at Cal spent the last four years at UC Santa Barbara. It wasn’t your usual interview process, as she interviewed over Zoom and took the job without visiting campus due to the pandemic. Now she’s building rapport with the team and getting the Waves ready to compete in 2021.

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Merrill Moses, associate head coach of the Pepperdine men’s water polo team, returns to the podcast for the third time to talk about the events of the last year. That includes the 2019 Golden Coast Conference Tournament title, which sent the Waves to the NCAA Championships for the first time since he was a player leading Pepperdine to the 1997 national title. Then, the pandemic interrupted their expected spring and summer plans, and postponed the fall 2020 season to early 2021. We talk about what this team and the upcoming season might look like.

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Episode 2 with Merrill Moses

Episode 54 with Merrill Moses

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Scott Wong, now in his sixth season as the Pepperdine women’s volleyball head coach, is heading into a season unlike any other. His fall 2020 season has been pushed to early 2021 so we discuss what the past year has been like for his team, and what this year’s team looks like.

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Episode 7 with Scott Wong

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Skye Barnett had a great run as a Pepperdine student-athlete about a decade ago: a standout on the women’s basketball team who was honored for her academics and who received the first-ever Maurice Hilliard Award because of her faith. She returned to Malibu last year to become the Director of Basketball Operations for the women’s program. Enjoy her life story and tales of her time with the Waves.

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Gerald Brown was a three-time All-WCC first team pick in the 1990s and one of the top scorers in Pepperdine men’s basketball history. After a professional career that included a season in the NBA with the Phoenix Suns, stops all over the world and a brief run with the Harlem Globetrotters, he transitioned into coaching, and now he’s back at Pepperdine as an assistant coach.

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Kevin Wright, Pepperdine’s Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Medicine, had the lead role in putting together the Waves’ return-to-play plan to safely bring student-athletes back to campus and to start competing during the pandemic. That’s a significant part of this podcast, plus we touch on his days as a student-athlete playing men’s volleyball at Pepperdine before transitioning into the world of athletic training.

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One of the all-time greats in Pepperdine men’s volleyball history, Paul Carroll joins the podcast this week. The Australian was a National Player of the Year just over a decade ago, and after a successful professional career, he returned to Pepperdine in the past year to begin his coaching career. We talk about playing for the Waves and overseas, and what it’s now like to be a coach.

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Pepperdine assistant baseball coach Danny Worth tells us his story – three great seasons playing for the Waves, becoming a high MLB Draft pick, playing in the Majors for parts of six seasons, and returning to Malibu to start his coaching career.

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On our season four opener and milestone episode number 100, Pepperdine Athletic Director Dr. Steve Potts returns to the podcast for the second time to talk about the last six months and being the AD during a pandemic, when sports have been postponed, everyone’s working from home and life is one Zoom meeting after another.

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Episode 50 with Dr. Steve Potts

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Pepperdine women’s golf coach Laurie Gibbs joins the podcast to talk about the last few months at home since the cancelation of the spring championships. Her All-American senior Momoka Kobori has graduated and won’t be back next year, but three very talented recruits will be joining the program, giving the Waves another opportunity to add to their long list of postseason success.

Episode 42 with Laurie Gibbs

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