The Total Quadball. Podcast

In this episode, we talk with long time Team UK and Velociraptors QC keeper Andrew Hull. Andrew tells us about how he got into quidditch through his love of Harry Potter, his early days at Bangor and with Team UK, joining Oxford from Bangor and the big transformation he made as a player during that season, the first year of playing with Raptors, his time playing down in Australia, the 2018 World C...

In this episode, we talk with Austrian star chaser Andrea Wöger. Andrea tells us about the early days of quidditch with the Vienna Vanguards and the start of quidditch in Austria, the ethos and identity of the Vanguards, her time playing on the Austrian national team including when they famously beat their neighbours Germany at the 2017 European Games. We also discuss QPL Europe, receiving recogni...

In this episode, we speak to the GOAT of quidditch highlight reels- Billy Quach. Billy tells us about his early playing days at the University of Arkansas, how his love of filming and the opportunity to create videos for quidditch led to him changing his major from Engineering to Film and thus changing his career and life in the process. He tells us about his experience of filming quidditch highli...

Leander Troll- Chaser for Germany and Rheinos Bonn, joins us for this episode as our first German guest on the show. He tells us about how he started playing quidditch with the UBC Thunderbirds in Canada before then returning to Germany to help set up Rheinos Bonn and play for Germany, both with which he has been involved with a steady rise towards the elite tier of European quidditch. We talk abo...

For Episode 14, we sit down with Lindsey Simpson, captain and co-captain of the Lost Boys QC and LA Aftershock. Lindsey tells us about her early days playing and partying at Emerson College in Boston, heading over to the West coast to play in LA for the Lost Boys, switching from beater to chaser  as well as the various projects she's been involved with such as Western Championship Quidditch,...

In episode 13, we talk to one of the more colourful characters within the European community- Bex McLaughlin. In this wide-ranging interview, we look back at how Bex began playing quidditch at the University of Southern Mississippi in southern USA, returning to the UK to play with Keele and multiple other teams, setting up their own team, moving to live in Catalonia and Austria, representing multi...

In more of a personal episode for our host, we speak with Fraser's long time teammate Aaron Veale. Starting off as a plucky 5ft 7 kid rocking up to his first quidditch session at Southampton in a Portsmouth shirt, Aaron talks through his career progression including his early success winning BQC 2015 with the Anchors all the way through to his captaincy year in which he redefined himself as a shor...

Back for Series Two of the Total Quidditch. Podcast, we head to Turkey to talk to Kaan Bolat- an influential leader and coach within the METU Unicorns and Turkish national team. Kaan tells us about the early development of Turkish quidditch, the team culture of the Unicorns with an emphasis on building strength in depth for years to come, the struggles Turkish quidditch players face in order to at...

In the series finale for series 1 of the podcast, we head to the land down under to chat with Australia's Taya Rawson. We talk a lot about Taya's involvement with the Australian national team, the Dropbears, of course going into great depth on their incredible World Cup win in 2016 as well as talking about how she coped with a serious knee injury and how quidditch has helped Taya in her sporting a...

Another in-depth interview in this 9th episode of the podcast. We talk to Jay Holmes, now former Head Coach of Team UK and former Captain of Velociraptors QC. We take a real honest and reflective look into Jay's rise through the ranks of the UK game, starting off with his time playing for Bangor, his transformation following the 2016 World Cup when he first joined Raptors, his successful leadershi...

In our 8th episode we have our first double interview with Devin Lee & Lindsay Marella of the New York Titans and the Warriors. The two of them talk about starting their career at Rutgers, the environment there and the challenges they faced, including a rather hectic last minute road trip from New Jersey to Florida to get to nationals. They also tell us about their experiences playing at the h...

In our seventh episode, we have an in-depth chat with Team UK keeper and assistant coach Seb Waters. We cover all kinds of topics, from Seb's visits over to Turkey and what he's learnt from their game, how he and his Warwick QC teammates carved out a play style based on football that saw them rise to the top of the UK game, his vivid memories of multiple tournaments with Team UK, London QC & W...

In our 6th episode, we head to the city of love and light, Paris, to talk with Albert Bregeault. The Paris Titans and France keeper tells us about the creation of the Titans and the standards they set themselves in order to become the most dominant team in Europe, his ambitions of becoming the world's best and his appreciation of Australia's Callum Mayling and other elite players at the top of the...

For the first episode of March and fifth total, we turn our attention to Scandinavia, speaking with Norway's Elisabeth Jørstad. Elisabeth tells us about her wide-reaching career which has led to her playing on club teams in Norway, UK, USA and Belgium as well as playing for the Norwegian and UK national teams. We compare and contrast these experiences as well as talk about the development of NTNUI...

In episode 4, we are joined by Louis Lermytte, former star utility player and coach of Antwerp QC and the Belgian Gryffins. Louis takes us on his journey from discovering quidditch and inviting his friends to play all the way through to becoming European champions, playing in a World Cup final and his and his team's retirement from the sport. Big thanks to everyone who sent in their mailbag questi...

For episode 3, we take a trip across the Atlantic to talk to Teddy Costa, current chaser for the Boston Forge (formerly the Boston Night Riders) and Boston Pandas. Teddy tells us about his college career at RPI where he met now longtime teammate and friend Mario Nasta and they first started brainstorming different creative ways to play the game. We also discuss Teddy's spell down in Texas with the...

For the very first episode of the podcast, we spoke with Velociraptors QC and Team UK star beater Lucy Quidditch. We covered all kinds of topics, from her early days at Nottingham Nightmares, to her tactical and critical analysis of herself and the sport, her new passion for Dodgeball and her experiences of playing at the highest level. Big thanks to everyone who sent in their mailbag questions, w...

For episode two, we spoke with Ash Cooper, the most decorated player in UK quidditch history and well renowned coach. Ash tells us about his early days with Oxford's Radcliffe Chimeras, his approach to captaining and coaching through fitness and psychology, his work on quidditch injury studies and how a notepad helped shape the landscape of UK quidditch as we know it today. Yet again, big thank yo...