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Episode 281 - Joel Sanchez

1 hour 38 minutes Posted Apr 24, 2026 at 12:00 am.

Legacy volleyball: the idea, the pioneering, the ascension, providing a place of safeness and escapism.

NYC being the pandemic ground zero and how the club survived, catching up on 25 years of playing and coaching (for our "people"), being raised in a culture where taking care is first contact is never an issue.

Remembering Guillermo Ramos, the hardest hitter we have ever seen, the invincibility of Bameso in 2004-2005, the "beauty" of Desmond "Shadow" Hamilton

Why Omar Vargas was the most important coach in NYC from 1994-2004, the majority or NYC coaches in the 2000's were active players with little guidance trying to figure it out - and did they, ever, about Justin Stack, Dan Skillins, Krishna Daas, Danial Levant

-Personalizing your work: does it work more for you or against you? Plus, how do you set up an environment where people want to come to practice.

The golden rule of coaching girls and women vs coaching boys and men, plus the moment we realized players changed and we stayed the same, about Jackie Meadow, why do we need a degree to coach?

finding ways to coach and eat in the South Bronx, plus, more NYC talk, about Elvis Rodriguez, Mike Salak, Seidu Ajanako

a coach's wild dream is for a player to say they are a better person because of them, and open letter to Joel Sanchez, thanks to the players who picked up the phone and said "yes."

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Joel Sanchez is an American Volleyball coach. A New York product, he played competitively for club Mocha and was a standout at Lehman College. Once he entered coaching, he hit the ground running, with a "Midas touch" on every single program in which he was involved. From club to college to adult pros, wherever there is success, there he is, with a list entirely too long for the description. To date, he is the program director of Legacy Volleyball Club, where his work won him national director of the year in 2022.

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