The Net Live
I fell in love with volleyball somewhere around the age of 16. I started playing jungle ball with some Marines in front of the U.S. Capitol steps and, miraculously, ended up at the far end of the...
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Severed Hand, Severed Trust
The best feeling in advertising is seeing one of your ideas produced. The worst feeling in advertising is having one of your ideas passed over…then seeing it fully produced by the same people to whom...
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Volleyball Cartoons
In late 2011, Volleyball Hall of Famer Jon Hastings reached out to me for some content for one of his publications. Jon is the editor of Volleyball USA, the quarterly “official magazine of USA...
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Other Side of the Lens
I’m used to being behind the camera. It’s usually a fun day when I get to be out of the office and on production, whether it be for a print photo shoot, TV spot or online video. There are worse places...
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My Waterworld
No one does the exposé-style documentary quite like Participant Media. If you’ve seen An Inconvenient Truth, The Cove or Food, Inc., you know what it’s like to feel an urgent need to change your life...
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The Vol-B-Que Events
For years, I’ve heard people all around the sport of volleyball complain about attendance numbers at big matches. While elite volleyball players are rockstars in countries like Brazil, Poland and...
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Building LaurenFendrick.com
Lauren Fendrick is one of the very best pro beach volleyball players in America. She was an alternate on the USA Olympic team in 2012—that won both the gold and silver medals in London—and she’s...
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My Trip to Guam
In February 2015, I had the opportunity to travel to Guam for an international volleyball tournament. Eager to play with one friend and reunite with another, I packed my bag and flew across the...
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Thank you
A year ago, I took a bizarre leap. I left a job situation that was near perfect in many ways. I was surrounded by intelligent, principled and talented people, I earned a great salary and benefits, and...
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Olympic Channel
I’ve been making silly videos with my daughter to promote Vol-B-Que events since 2011. They’re usually shot on a phone, edited in iMovie and produced with a whopping budget of $0.00. So you can imagine...
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