Talk:Brian Kalbas

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Zietlow, Alex (February 1, 2019). "Kalbas turned into a chance worth taking" (PDF). The Daily Tar Heel. Vol. 127, no. 11. pp. 1, 7.
Chansky, Art (April 21, 2017). "Chansky's Notebook: Out Of The Shadows". Chapelboro.com.
Chansky, Art (February 13, 2020). "Chansky's Notebook: Tennis Love". Chapelboro.com.

A fact from Brian Kalbas appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 August 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Brian Kalbas helped recruit the player who would replace him in the number-one spot on his college tennis team?

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High school career[edit]

Laying out timeline:

High school career Hameltion (talk | contribs) 03:14, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

In July 1978, he lived in Toledo, Ohio.^{[HS 1]} His family moved often. He went to three different schools in four years of high school.^{[HS 2]} In 1983–84, he went to Central Catholic High School in Ohio. In spring 1984, he saved eight match points en route to winning Ohio's Class AA singles championship as a high school junior. In fall 1984, he moved back to eastern Pennsylvania near Harrisburg.^{[HS 3]} In May 1985, while living in the Cumberland Valley, he won the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) boys' state title.^{[HS 4]} His home while going to college was in Carmel, Indiana.^{[HS 5]}

^ "Scarff Claims Ohio Jaycee Net Crown". Springfield News-Sun. 1978-07-21. Retrieved 2023-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Zietlow, Alex (February 1, 2019). "Kalbas turned into a chance worth taking" (PDF). The Daily Tar Heel. Vol. 127, no. 11. pp. 1, 7. Retrieved 2023-07-03.
^ Nold, Bob (1984-08-12). "Teams will miss departing young players". Akron Beacon Journal. p. E11. Retrieved 2023-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.
^ "Brian Kalbas takes PIAA state tennis title". The Evening Sun. Hanover, Pennsylvania. 1985-05-27. Retrieved 2023-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.
^ Mitchell, Bob (May 1, 1989). "Irish ready for future after season-ending win" (PDF). The Observer (student newspaper). p. 14. Retrieved 2023-07-01 – via Archives of the University of Notre Dame.

Currently too patchy for mainspace. Hameltion (talk | contribs) 03:14, 4 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 13:46, 7 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that Brian Kalbas helped recruit the player who would replace him in the number-one spot on his college tennis team? Source: p. 25: "'[Kalbas] was instrumental in the recruiting of Dave DiLucia, our top incoming player. He's willing to help out for one reason only - it will help the team. That's something anyone would admire.'" (extra source: "DiLucia ... had a connection to Brian and brother Tim Kalbas, through Pennsylvania youth tennis.") p. 21: "In his first three seasons at Notre Dame, Kalbas held on to the No. 1 singles spot, but with the arrival of freshman Dave DiLucia (No. 1) and junior transfer Walter Dolhare (No. 2) this year, Kalbas has assumed the No. 3 spot."
- ALT0a: ... that Brian Kalbas helped recruit his replacement in the number-one spot on his college tennis team? Ibid.
- ALT1: ... that the year after he was its captain, Brian Kalbas helped coach the University of Notre Dame men's tennis team? Source: p. 14: "As for senior team captain Brian Kalbas, the Carmel, IN, resident earned his 85th and final singles win for Notre Dame by humbling Mark Gurenther, 6-4, 6-3. Yet Kalbas's life at Notre Dame is not quite finished. He has been named Notre Dame's first full-time assistant coach for the 1989-1990 season."
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/The Mafeje Affair

Created by Hameltion (talk). Self-nominated at 03:40, 5 July 2023 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Brian Kalbas; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Long enough and new enough.
All three hooks in the nom are approved, but I like ALT0 the best.
No copyright problems. RoySmith (talk) 19:46, 2 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "Scarff Claims Ohio Jaycee Net Crown". Springfield News-Sun. 1978-07-21. Retrieved 2023-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.

[2] Zietlow, Alex (February 1, 2019). "Kalbas turned into a chance worth taking" (PDF). The Daily Tar Heel. Vol. 127, no. 11. pp. 1, 7. Retrieved 2023-07-03.

[3] Nold, Bob (1984-08-12). "Teams will miss departing young players". Akron Beacon Journal. p. E11. Retrieved 2023-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.

[4] "Brian Kalbas takes PIAA state tennis title". The Evening Sun. Hanover, Pennsylvania. 1985-05-27. Retrieved 2023-07-03 – via Newspapers.com.

[5] Mitchell, Bob (May 1, 1989). "Irish ready for future after season-ending win" (PDF). The Observer (student newspaper). p. 14. Retrieved 2023-07-01 – via Archives of the University of Notre Dame.

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