UNC Basketball: Dante Calabria inks high school head coaching job
Former UNC basketball wing Dante Calabria is returning back to his home state for the next step in his professional career. On Wednesday, it was announced that Calabria would be the newest men’s basketball coach at Bethel Park in Pennsylvania.
Calabria returns back to the WPIAL basketball league where he starred for Blackhawk back in the early 1990’s and was inducted into the WPIAL Hall of Fame in 2014.
Bethel Park moves on from Josh Bears who resigned after last season. Bethel Park went 16-7 overall last year and reached the first round of the WPIAL Class 6A playoffs.
Calabria arrives at Bethel after a professional playing career that stretched 16 years overseas. He most recently was an assistant coach at Barry University in Miami (Fla.).
“His resume speaks for itself,” Bethel Park athletic director Dan Sloan said. “It’s exciting to be able to show our kids a guy who came from around this area and made it to where he made it, played at a big-time Division I college under legendary coaches, played professionally and then moved up through the coaching ranks.”
Calabria played for North Carolina from 1992-96 under Dean Smith. He was on the 1993 NCAA Championship team and was a Third-Team All-ACC player his senior season.
Following his time at UNC, he went on to eventually be an assistant for Larry Brown in Italy’s Lega Basket Serie A and also an assistant for Rollie Massimino at Keiser University. He also spent time at powerhouse prep school Montverde Academy and UNC Wilmington.
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