Maddie Anderson Has Her Spark Back
3/4/202656 min
Welcome back to SANDCAST: Beach Volleyball with Tri Bourne and Travis Mewhirter, where we have, at the Florida State Beach Volleyball courts, second-year professional Maddie Anderson. We've been trying to get Maddie on the pod for some time, and Travis even coached her and Brook Bauer briefly at the Volleyball World Beach Pro Tour Hamburg Elite a year ago, but finally, we made it work, and we chat about:
- How Maddie made the transition from NCAA to professional beach volleyball so well
- Her new partnership with Alaina Chacon
- Why living in California to become a professional volleyball player is no longer a necessity, and why she's doing it in Florida
- How she almost lost her spark and love for volleyball, but reclaimed it and is now all in
And much more! Fun one with Mads.
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First 90 secondsMaddie Anderson· Guest0:00
[upbeat music] Love it.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:09
All right. Now we're good, Maddie.
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:12
[clapping] Let's go.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:14
Uh, this has been, um, a long time coming.
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:18
Yeah.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:18
We've been chatting about doing the pod for a while.
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:20
I know.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:20
Yeah.
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:21
It's crazy.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:21
Glad you're here back in town.
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:22
Me too. It's so nice to be back.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:24
And this is actually the first podcast we've done, like, out of the dungeon at Florida State. A lot of the time we'll go, like, team room or Brooke's office and have, like, uh, Osceola and Renegade- Oh, yeah ... as the background.
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:35
Yeah.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:35
I like... It's good... Thank you for getting me out of the dungeon.
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:38
[laughs] It's nice to be outside.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:39
I owe you a favor.
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:39
[laughs] No. Never.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:41
Um, one question I had for you, so the, like, the first time I heard your name in the first, like, year, it was always Maddie Mae, Maddie Mae.
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:48
Oh.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:48
I feel like you've dropped the Mae.
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:50
Oh my gosh.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:50
Now I feel... 'Cause now it's always Maddie Anderson, and I wa- I've wanted to ask forever, 'cause every time I looked up your name it was always Maddie Anderson.
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:57
Yeah.
Travis Mewhirter· Host0:57
But people always were like, "Oh, it's Maddie Mae."
Maddie Anderson· Guest0:59
Yeah.
Travis Mewhirter· Host1:00
And so I never knew.
Maddie Anderson· Guest1:01
It's a funny story. So Mae's my middle name.
Travis Mewhirter· Host1:03
Okay.
Maddie Anderson· Guest1:04
Um- M-A-Y, or is it M-A-E? M-A-Y.
Travis Mewhirter· Host1:07
Okay.
Maddie Anderson· Guest1:07
So Mae is my mom's maiden name. She didn't change her name, so she put Mae as all of the kids' middle names.
Travis Mewhirter· Host1:14
No kidding.
Maddie Anderson· Guest1:15
Yeah, so every... My sister and brother both have Mae as their middle names as well, but we all have two middle names, so my full name is Madeline Matilda Mae Anderson.
Travis Mewhirter· Host1:23
Okay.
Maddie Anderson· Guest1:24
Yeah.
Travis Mewhirter· Host1:24
Got it. So she just went all Maes in the middle.
Maddie Anderson· Guest1:27
Yep, she just wanted to, wanted to include