BEACH VOLLEYBALL
IN SYNC: John Hyden and Tri Bourne hope to ride the wave of their succesful partnership all the way to the 2016 Olympics. (Photo: FIVB)
Veteran John Hyden and Tri Bourne are 17 years apart in age, but they have become one of the U.S.’s top pro beach teams and they’re very serious about making a run at Rio
A team for the ages I
Interview by Don Patterson and Connor Hastings
t’s early afternoon on a warm winter morning in Santa Monica, Calif. Olympic hopefuls John Hyden, 42, and Tri Bourne, 25, have just fi nished the day’s training and are sitting, still sandy, at a coastal cafe, answering questions about their beach partnership.
Given their age gap, this alliance has had almost a father-son feel since they fi rst teamed up in early 2013. Bourne, a native of Aiea, Hawaii, and former indoor standout at the University of Southern California, soaks up all he can from Hyden, who played for
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the U.S. in two indoor Olympics (1996 and 2000) after graduating from San Diego State. After transitioning to the beach, Hyden has won 24 tournaments in a pro beach career that began in 2001. On this day, Bourne and Hyden are talk- ing about why their partnership works – last year, they won an FIVB tournament (Ger- many) and an AVP tournament (Milwaukee) – and offering a few training and lifestyle tips. They’re well positioned to compete for one of the two U.S. berths in the 2016 Olym- pic Games in Rio after an impressive run
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