1. When you started to coach?
2013
2. What’s your best souvenir in beach volleyball competition as a coach?
Silver medal 🥈 Tokyo Olympics (AUS – Clancy/Artacho Del solar)
2019 bronze 🥉 World Championships (AUS – Clancy/Artacho Del solar)
2019 bronze 🥉 World Championships (GER – Müller/Tillmann)
3. Your best ever venue?
Klagenfurt – Austria 🇦🇹
4. Your best ever female and male player?
Shelda Bede & Karch Kiraly
5. What’s the most important thing when you coach?
I want to help guide and support the athletes achieve their goals.
6. Who will win the men Gold in Paris 2024?
Perusic/Schweiner
7. Who will win the women gold in Paris 2024 ?
Duda/Ana Patrícia 🇧🇷 or Germany 🇩🇪 😁
8. What team would you have dreamed of coaching?
Any team from New Zealand
9. One word about the women German teams? “CONSCIENTIOUS“
1. When you started to coach?
Andrea : I started in 2004, professionally in 2016 when I quit playing
2. What’s your best souvenir in beach volleyball competition?
Andrea : Nothing in particular, I have some great memories from many tournaments
3. Your best ever venue
Andrea : Stavanger
4. Your best ever female and male player?
Andrea : Larissa and Phil Dalhausser
5. What’s the most important thing when you coach?
Andrea : To speed up the learning process and to help players to make right choices
6. Who will win the men Gold in Paris 2024?
Andrea : I have to say Ondrej and David otherwise I’ll be fired!
7. Who will win the women gold in Paris 2024 ?
Andrea : I hope Nina Brunner & Tanja Hüberli
8. (even you were not born) What team would you have dreamed of coaching?
Andrea : Jānis Šmēdiņš and Phil Dalhausser both in their prime
9. One world about Ondrej & David
Andrea : They are 2 great guys, I fell very lucky to coach them, it has really changed my life
1. When you started to coach?
Caterina : I started coaching in 2010
2. What’s your best souvenir in beach volleyball competition?
Caterina : there are several, from the silver medal at the 2018 Youth Olympics to the gold medal of Marta and Valentina to the saquarema challenge
3. Your best ever venue
Caterina : i like too much rio de Janeiro
4. Your best ever female and male player?
Caterina : karch kiraly and laura ludwig
5. What’s the most important thing when you coach?
Caterina : I think the important thing is to make the athletes improve
6. Who will win the men Gold in Paris 2024?
Caterina : Maybe today the favorites are still Mol-Sorum
7. Who will win the women gold in Paris 2024 ?
Caterina : I would like to answer my team, but for superstition I say Duda and Ana Patricia
8. (even you were not born) What team would you have dreamed of coaching?
Caterina : I am very happy to coach my team, and this is my dream
9. One world about Marta & Valentina
Caterina : Marta is a great professional and very precise in her work.
Valentina is a young athlete of great talent and great ability to learn
1. When you started to coach?
Sebastian: Internationally in 2013
2. What’s your best souvenir in beach volleyball competition?
Sebastian: The Haiyang trophy that certifies our participation in the Tokio 2020 Olympic Games
3. Your best ever venue
Sebastian: I love Rome and its Foro Italico
4. Your best ever female and male player?
Sebastian: Larissa Franca / Kent Steffes
5. What’s the most important thing when you coach?
Sebastian: the most important thing for me is getting the best version of each player while we enjoy the “Journey”
6. Who will win the men Gold in Paris 2024?
Sebastian: Common sense makes me answer Norway but I would like it to be Qatar
7. Who will win the women gold in Paris 2024 ?
Sebastian: Everything suggests that Duda & Ana Patrcia are the Favorites for Paris.
8. (even you were not born) What team would you have dreamed of coaching?
Sebastian: I’m going to take “even if you weren’t born” as a compliment 😂 , thank you… and say Karch Kiraly & Kent Steffes
9. One word about Mari-Sara ? And also about Paula and Lili
Sebastian: 4 players… 4 words… “Gray Hair Factory Warriors” 😂😘😘😘😘
1. When you started to coach?
Lucas : professional coach was 2014, coaching for an extra income since 2009.
2. What’s your best souvenir in beach volleyball competition?
Lucas : My credentials, I keep all of them since my first world tour tournament.
3. Your best ever venue
Lucas : Best venue that still happens is Gstaad for sure. But i used to enjoy Vienna a lot, craziest crowd and best atmosphere ever.
4. Your best ever female and male player?
Lucas : Of all time Shelda and Ricardo
5. What’s the most important thing when you coach?
Lucas : Full commitment and desire to improve.
6. Who will win the men Gold in Paris 2024?
Lucas : Norway
7. Who will win the women gold in Paris 2024 ?
Lucas : I would be discrediting myself and all our collaborators if I didn’t say Duda and Ana Patrícia
8. (even you were not born) What team would you have dreamed of coaching?
Lucas : Ricardo and Todd Rogers / Ana Patricia and Duda for sure.
9. One world about Ana Patricia & Duda
Lucas : commitment all the way
1. When you started to coach?
2001 for one season – when I was injured and out for one year as a player.
Then again more seriously from June 2009
2. What’s your best souvenir in beach volleyball competition?
(as coach)
– Olympic qualifications 2012 (women and men)
– Olympic quarterfinal game 2016
– World Championship quarterfinal 2019
– European Championship 2021
3. Your best ever venue
Mar del Plata, Athens, London
4. Your best ever female and male player?
Misty May – Emanuel
5. What’s the most important thing when you coach?
To make a difference: I want to take players where they can’t take themselves – in every practice
6. Who will win the men Gold in Paris 2024?
Ahmann/Hellvig
7. Who will win the women gold in Paris 2024 ?
Ana Patricia/Duda
8. What team would you have dreamed of coaching?
Any team with a bit of talent and strong will to improve every day
9. One word about the swiss teams ?
I can only speak about “my” teams (Brunner/Hüberli and Esmée/Zoe):
Dream teams to work with!!
1. When you started to coach?
Rasmus : Hehe, I started to coach my younger brother in our backyard when I was 11 years old and he was 7. He learnt to jump serve very early… 🙂 But I have been coaching continuously since I was 15 years old.
2. What’s your best souvenir in beach volleyball competition?
Rasmus : Our first gold medal on the international stage at the U18 European Championships with David and Jonatan.
3. Your best ever venue?
Rasmus : Klagenfurt back in the days and of course Tylösand in Sweden.
4. What’s the most important thing when you coach?
Rasmus : Focus, development and knowledge.
5. Who will win the men Gold in Paris 2024?
Rasmus : It’s more than a year from now so it’s too early to say. But we hope that we will qualify for the Olympics.
6. Who will win the women gold in Paris 2024?
Rasmus : We will see what the coaches for the women’s teams will answer…
7. (even you were not born) What team would you have dreamed of coaching?
Rasmus : I love to develop young players… So to work with 16 years old Karch Kiraly and Anders Mol would have been fun.
8. One word about David & Jonatan?
Rasmus : The first generation Swedish Jumpsetters (and great athletes/beachvolleyballers/persons!)