Pepp Talk

The Pepperdine women’s beach volleyball team finished as the national runner-up last season and has its sights on an NCAA championship in 2018. With the season getting started this weekend, junior standout Skylar Caputo is this episode’s guest.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @skylarcaputo @WavesBeachVB @PepperdineRoger

College baseball season starts this week. Senior righthanded pitcher Kiko Garcia comes on the podcast to talk about the 2018 Pepperdine baseball team, his four seasons wearing a Waves uniform, succeeding academically and more, including his experience as a Little League Baseball world champion.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @imkiko19 @PeppBaseball @PepperdineRoger

With the season-ending Pacific Collegiate Swim Conference Championships coming up next week, this week’s Pepp Talk podcast guest is one of the top swimmers for Pepperdine, junior Julia Sneden.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @WavesSwimDive @PepperdineRoger

Amadi Udenyi has had many ups and downs during his time with the Pepperdine men’s basketball team, and as a fifth-year senior heading into the homestretch of his college career, he’s hoping to remain healthy and finish strong. We talk about why he’s kept coming back despite the adversities that he’s faced, and how he became one of the all-time assist leaders in the program’s history.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @PeppBasketball @AUdenyi_5 @PepperdineRoger

Pepperdine men’s volleyball season is well underway and this week’s podcast guest is senior middle blocker Clay Carr. We talk his development during his time as a Wave, from not playing as a freshman to earning a starting job as a junior and senior. He tells us about the 2018 team, plus the only thing he’s more passionate about than volleyball.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @PeppVolleyball @PepperdineRoger

Yasmine Robinson-Bacote is an outstanding junior forward with the Pepperdine women’s basketball team, a returning All-West Coast Conference first team selection and a double-double machine who ranks among the conference’s top scorers and rebounders. She shares her story on the first Pepp Talk podcast of 2018.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @YRB25_ @WavesHoops @PepperdineRoger

The 2018 Pepperdine men’s volleyball season gets underway soon and to help preview the season, we’ve got first-year head coach David Hunt (1:12) back on the podcast, as well as senior libero Weston Barnes (17:53).   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @PeppVolleyball @PeppVB @WBarnez @PepperdineRoger

The Pepperdine women’s soccer team won its second straight WCC title and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament, so we’re recapping another wonderful season for the Waves by talking to WCC Coach of the Year Tim Ward (1:30) and All-American and WCC Player of the Year Bri Visalli (28:52) about their highly successful 2017 campaign.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @WavesSoccer @HeadCoachWard @brivisalli @PepperdineRoger

Lynn Williams is the most prominent and successful player in Pepperdine women’s soccer history, and she recently sat down for an interview for the podcast. The only first team All-American in program history, she’s gone on to be an MVP and Golden Boot winner in the NWSL and a regular with the U.S. National Team over the past year. Hopefully, she’ll have a chance to achieve her dream of representing the U.S. in the World Cup and the Olympics in the coming years. She tells us about leaving Fresno for Malibu, her time with the Waves, overcoming injuries and the highlights of her young professional career.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @lynnraenie @WavesSoccer @PepperdineRoger

Two Pepperdine student-athletes with truly rare stories are on the podcast this week, Kevin Hempy of men’s basketball (1:01) and Lauren Stigers of women’s swimming and diving (18:24). Hempy is both a basketball player and a first-year law student. Stigers both swims and dives for the Waves. In both cases, there are very few known instances of Division I student-athletes trying to do these two things at once.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @PeppBasketball @WavesSwimDive @PepperdineRoger

With the women’s volleyball and men’s water polo seasons nearing their conclusions, we brought on two of their senior student-athletes -- Ashley Harris (1:03) and Kenneth Keller (22:10) -- to reflect upon their time at Pepperdine as they close out their college careers.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @WavesVolleyball @PeppWaterPolo @PepperdineRoger

This is our second straight basketball season preview podcast, this time with Pepperdine men’s head coach Marty Wilson. We talk about how he’s built the 2017-18 team, what the expectations are and about each player on the roster.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @PeppBasketball @MartyWilson4 @PepperdineRoger

First-year Pepperdine women’s basketball head coach DeLisha Milton-Jones returns to the podcast to help preview the 2017-18 season, which begins on November 10. We talk about what she’s trying to build and go down the roster to discuss each of the young women on the squad.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @WavesHoops @DelishaMJones @PepperdineRoger  

Pepperdine Athletics inducted another five greats into its Hall of Fame on October 15. We conducted brief interviews with each of the all-time great Waves on the night of the ceremony: Vilma Charlton of track (1:13), Paul Faries of baseball (7:49), Angela (Lawrence) Hendy of tennis (15:02), Jesse Smith of water polo (21:45) and Michael Zapolski of administration (29:41).   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Complete 2017 Hall of Fame Recap   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @PepperdineRoger  

Student-athletes Meagan Harbison of women’s soccer (1:06) and Mark Urban of men’s water polo (16:19) are our guests this week. Both seniors were key members of conference champions a year ago and hope to help their teams repeat this fall.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @WavesSoccer @PeppWaterPolo @PepperdineRoger  

With this being the 20th anniversary of Pepperdine’s NCAA water polo championship, we brought back Merrill Moses, the starting goalkeeper on that team and the Waves’ current associate head coach, for his second appearance on the podcast. This one is Pepperdine-centric, starting with the 1997 NCAA title and later going into his transition into coaching here.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @PeppWaterPolo @MerrillMoses @PepperdineRoger  

Student-athletes Nikki Lyons of volleyball (1:03) and Kevin Maeda of cross country/track (15:00) are our interview subjects this week. Lyons is a two-sport standout, being a key member of both the indoor and beach teams. Maeda, in addition to being a top runner, is co-president of Pepperdine Athletics’ Waves Leadership Council.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @WavesVolleyball @PeppXCTrack @nikkilyonss @kp_maeda @PepperdineRoger

Jonathan Winder, who won a national championship with the Pepperdine men’s volleyball team and was also an AVCA National Player of the Year, returned to campus recently in his position as an assistant coach with the Washington women’s volleyball program. We talked about his time with the Waves, playing for and coaching with Marv Dunphy, his time with the U.S. National Team, how he got into coaching and what he’s doing now.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @PeppVolleyball @JonathanSWinder @PepperdineRoger  

Jamie Van Horn of the Pepperdine women’s soccer team (1:12) and Zack Rhodes of the men’s water polo team (15:47) were both integral parts of conference champions last year, and both would like to help their respective teams repeat as seniors. They share their stories on this week’s podcast.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @WavesSoccer @PeppWaterPolo @PepperdineRoger

The 50th episode of the Pepp Talk podcast features Pepperdine’s Director of Athletics, Dr. Steve Potts. He shares his unique story of going from a law school professor and administrator to becoming an athletic director. We also talk his big three things that make up Pepperdine Athletics’ mission, his philosophy for hiring coaches and what he tells recruits about Pepperdine.   www.PepperdineWaves.com   Related Twitter accounts for this episode: @PepperdineWaves @StevePottsAD @PepperdineRoger