Brecht Piersma

They are making their debut at the Mother Lode as I record this.

Brecht Piersma, phenomenal blocker from the Netherlands, phenomenal blocker for the University of Texas.

She is playing with Molly Shaw.

And then you have, uh, the Puerto Rican all-stars.

So I will say this intentionally, the Netherlands for the women and Sweden for the men have earned a spot.

Now, why did I not say Rais Skon and Kaj Stam and Jakob Holtning-Nilsson and Elmer Andersson? Sweden and the Netherlands can do whatever they want with that bid, and Netherlands famously had a team, uh, Vis Beckhouse and Brecht Piersma.

Uh, they should have gone to the 2024 Olympic Games, but the Dutch Federation, across all sports, not just beach, they're very strict on who they send and who they do not to the Olympics.

They did not meet the requirements, which as far as I understand it, are a fifth in an elite or better during the Olympic qualifying period for them to send them.