Passin Dimes Podcast

Team Canada Sitting member Darek Symonowicz joins the show. Darek made the men’s national team in 2012, helped the squad win a bronze in Peru at ParaPan and looks to qualify for Tokyo next week at the Paralympic Qualifier! Follow Darek on Instagram to stay up to date on his training and our men's sitting team! @dareksymonowicz Thank you so much for listening! If you enjoy the show please write a r...

FIVB Best Blocker and Future Olympian Brandie Wilkerson joins the show! John May returns for his 5th appearance, I think it's his 5th, we've lost count...The squad discusses the Cancun Hub, do players go back and read the comments on the live stream, Olympic Qualifying, the time John called Brandie lazy, growth mindset and believing in yourself.  Thank you so much for listening! If you enjoy the s...

Volleyball Guro Joe Trinsey joins the show! Joe is on the advisory staff for Gold Medal Squared, former technical coordinator for the U.S. women's national team (2013-2016) where he helped the squad win a World Championships and Bronze medal at the Olympics, former assistant coach with Team Canada and The host of the Volley Cast, a great podcast you should give a listen to.  We hope you enjoy this...

John May returns to the show to talk about the Cancun Hub, Olympic Qualifying, Continental Cup, and so much more with Josh and Garrett.  We hope you enjoy this episode. Be sure to tell your friends about us and please give a 5 Star review on Apple!    We couldn't be more excited to partner with Momentum Pro Camps. Momentum Pro Camps runs volleyball camps across Ontario, bringing professional athle...

UBC Head Coach Mike Hawkins joins the show to talk about his impressive playing and coaching career. Mike's coaching resume includes Team Canada Youth National Team, Assistant Coach with UBC Okanagan, interim Head Coach and before that Assistant Coach at Thompson Rivers, Head Coach of Lethbridge College. As a player Mike competed for TRU and Mount Royal.    We hope you enjoy this episode. If you'v...

Team Canada's Caroline Livingston and Captain Jen Cross join Josh and Garrett to discuss the Women's National Team prep for VNL. We also get into contract negotiations, the training environment, meeting their new teammates, Garrett and Jen argue about their high school days and so much more!!  We hope you enjoy this episode. Be sure to tell your friends about us and please give a 5 Star review on...

USports National Champion with U of Toronto, Team Canada Indoor Alumni, and Current Team Canada Beach National Team member Anna Feore joins the podcast! We learned about Anna's journey from dance to volleyball, growing up in Stratford, joining Forest City, Team Ontario and the National Team!  We hope you enjoy this episode. If you've read this far please, please, please leave a comment, a 5 Star r...

Two amazing coaches, Katie Hutchinson and Maria Krahn join Josh and Garrett to go deep into the challenges facing women in coaching! The squad agrees, disagrees and agrees to disagree and hopes to get you, friend of the show, to join the conversation so we can solve any issues effecting our sport today.    We hope you enjoyed this episode. Please leave a comment, a 5 Star review and the best compl...

Jared Brown joins the show to share some amazing stories and some great coaching tips. Jared is a 5 year assistant at U of M (two CIS Bronze Medals), 6 years with Bison Volleyball Club (2 National Championships, 2 National Finalists) 9 years with 204 (National Finalists in 2012), Assistant coach with Team Canada Youth Selects in 2017. We hope you enjoy this episode. If you've read this far please,...

TJ Sanders, Team Canada Setter, Olympian, and Ep 4 and 58 guest on Passin Dimes joins Garrett and Josh this week. The three share stories, opinions, and laughs as they talk about Trevor Lawrence's quote, beach vs indoor, how to get the best out of everyone and so much more!  We hope you enjoy this episode. If you've read this far please, please, please leave a comment, a 5 Star review and the best...

Former National Team Captain Keith Sanheim joins the show! Keith is a 1991 CIAU / Usports Champion and All Canadian. With the National Team Keith was a 1992 Olympic alternate, competed at World League, Norceca Championships, World Championships, World Cup and the Bronze Medal winning team at the 1999 Pan Am Games. He played professionally from 1993-2002 in Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Greece & S...

It's Garrett May's Birthday! Well, it was when we recorded. That's the dedication you can expect from Sharp Cuts! Joining Garrett and Josh are fan favourites John May and Oscar Kahu. The squad looks back at the glory days of Crush Volleyball, Oscar and John settle their playing time dispute, Garrett and John won an OVA Beach Tour event and the guys talk about Canada's #1 Beach Crew.  We hope you e...

This week the tables have turned for Passin Dimes 2nd Anniversary! Friend of the show Eric Simon (Episode 133) steps up and offers to host an episode to interview co-creator and host of Passin Dimes, Josh Nichol.  Josh started his coaching career over 18 years ago when he started coaching while in high school. Since then Josh has coached club for DRVC, Interclub, Leaside and Titans, school volleyb...

Sharp Cuts welcomes National Team Player, Indoor and Beach, Kentucky Wildcats Alumni, and Big Deal at the Preds Volleyball Club, Becky Pavan and Queens Assistant Coach, Master of Coaching, former Head Coach of Niagara Knights, Natasha Spaling to the show! The squad talks about the support women get in the volleyball community, differences between the mens and women's game and transitioning from a...

Lexi Pollard joins us after finishing her first year of pro in Sweden! Lexi played for the Barrie Elites and Aurora Storm growing up before attending the University of Windsor. Lexi is the first female Lancer to turn pro!    We hope you enjoy this episode. Please leave a comment, a 5 Star review and the best compliment you can give the show is telling your friends about us!     We couldn't be more...

Sharp Cuts welcomes Olympians and Father - Son Duo, Don and Ben Saxton! The squad talks about the business of volleyball, volleyball families, a little east vs west discussion and so much more! Don and his family own and operate  The Volley Dome in Calgary and Ben started the NBVL, so these two know what it takes to run a volleyball business.  We hope you enjoy this episode. Please leave a comment...

Gabe Burlacu has represented Canada over 22 times including Youth World Championships, FISU Games, Norceca and the FIVB World Tour, earning 9 Top 10 Finishes! In this episode we discuss his start in volleyball, University of Windsor, his start in beach, playing with different partners, and his choice to move and train in BC.    We hope you enjoy this episode. Please leave a comment, a 5 Star revie...

Fan voted top guest John May and 3X Olympian Mark Heese join the show to discuss the connections between John, Garrett and Mark, coaching and the Next Generation of Beach Volleyball. We couldn't be more excited to partner with Momentum Pro Camps. Momentum Pro Camps runs volleyball camps across Ontario, bringing professional athletes, coaches and resources to communities, clubs and partners. Follow...

Florida State star Sara Putt joins the show to talk about NCAA, AVP, NVL Volleyball and her approach to the game. Sara was named to the CCSA All-Tournament x2, AVCA Top Flight Award, Preseason All-CCSA, 3X ACC Academic Honor Roll, AVCA All-American and is a NCAA National Finalist.  We hope you enjoy this episode, please leave a 5 Star review and tell your friends. Stay Excellent! We couldn't be mo...

This week Garrett and Josh are joined by Andrew Kocur, Tomas Sorra and fan voted top guest John May! The squad discusses the business of volleyball, beach and indoor players and when do you have to choose, Estonia and their love of volleyball and so much more!  We couldn't be more excited to partner with Momentum Pro Camps. Momentum Pro Camps runs volleyball camps across Ontario, bringing professi...

Ian Eibbitt has done it all! He played for the Scarborough Solars growing up, represented Team Ontario at the Canada Games, competed on the Labatt Tour before moving into a leadership role as tournament director, commentator and more. Ian was one of the owners of Overkill, the world famous Canadian Volleyball Clothing Brand. Many would know Ian as the Director of Camp Madawaska. As a coach Eibbitt...

Garrett and Josh are joined by returning guest Jake MacNeil and from Episode 19 of the Passin Dimes Podcast, Joel Hannan! This week the squad discusses "twisted history" of our sport and plays out "what if" situations including what if Garrett doesn't go to U21 Worlds, instead Sam plays with Dan Dearing, or if Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena move to Qatar and compete internationally for them and f...

Nathan Groenveld is a 2x OUA Champion, 1st Team All Canadian, OUA Player of the Year, National Team Alumni, Former Niagara College Head Coach winning an OCAA Championship and CCAA Bronze and current Head Coach of the York Lions.  Nate shares his playing career and how he got into coaching. We take a deep dive into his coaching process and how he loves to go down the rabbit hole and look into the d...

Episode 3 of Sharp Cuts is here! Garrett and Josh are joined by returning guests Dan Dearing, Oscar Kahu and new guest...Canadian Olympian, U21 World Champion and all round good guy Sam Schachter!  The squad discusses their "welcome" to the tour moment, McDonalds in China, life on tour, relentless self belief and so much more!  We couldn't be more excited to partner with Momentum Pro Camps. Moment...

Volleyball Guru Nathan Janzen joins the show! Nathan is currently an assistant coach with the McMaster Marauders Women's Team. Nathan has coached high school, club, Team Ontario, Canada Games, Team Canada, and was Head Coach of the Niagara Knights Women's Team of the OCAA. Nathan is a Data Volley expert who uses his knowledge of data to effect training any player development.  We couldn't be more...