Our guest speaker for this meeting will be Brian Kalbas, Head Women’s Tennis Coach at UNC. Kalbas has been named the National Coach of the Year three times, including this year, when the Team won its first NCAA National Championship and seventh ITA National Team Indoor Championship. Over the course of his 21 seasons at UNC, he has won 6 ACC Championships, been named ACC Coach of the Year 5 times, coached 3 NCAA Doubles National Champions and one NCAA Singles National Championship.
Kalbas is a 1989 graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where he was a four-year varsity player, playing at the No. 1 and No. 2 spots in singles. He was captain of the Fighting Irish men’s tennis team his senior year and received the most valuable player and sportsmanship awards from Notre Dame. After graduation, Kalbas served as an assistant coach for the Notre Dame men’s tennis team from 1989-92. During his tenure, the Fighting Irish made their way to the Top 20 for the first time in school history, and, in 1992, the Irish reached the NCAA Championship match.
Kalbas and his wife, Suzanne, have two children, Sarah and Joseph, who currently serves as the Director of Data Analytics for the program.
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