Ed Kalman

Ed Kalman

Full name	Ed Kalman
Date of birth	(1982-12-07) 7 December 1982
Place of birth	Plymouth, England
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	121 kg (19 st 1 lb)
School	Belmont House School
University	Durham University Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge
Rugby union career
Playing career
Position	Tighthead Prop
Amateur clubs
Years	Club / team
2005	Whitecraigs RFC Durham University RFC Cambridge University R.U.F.C. Ayr RFC[1] Stirling County RFC[2]
Professional / senior clubs
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2005 2006–2007 2007–2014	Newcastle Falcons → Yorkshire Carnegie Border Reivers Glasgow Warriors	1 21 101	(10) (15)
correct as of 19 May 2013.
Provincial/State sides
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2000–2002 2009	Glasgow District Gael Force[3]
National team(s)
Years	Club / team	Caps	(points)
2006–2010 2012	Scotland A Scotland	12[4] 2	(0)
correct as of 22 August 2015.
Coaching career
Years	Club / team
2014–	Strathallan School

Ed Kalman (born 7 December 1982) is a former Scottish rugby union internationalist, who played for Glasgow Warriors in the RaboDirect Pro12. He played as a prop; both at tighthead and loosehead.

Having moved to Scotland from an early age, Kalman went to Belmont House School in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire. He joined the local rugby club Whitecraigs RFC. He played for the Glasgow District team for their under-20s from 2000–2002.^[5]

After his Scottish schooling, he went to Durham University to study physics. He was a member of the Durham University rugby side that won the 2004 BUSA final at Twickenham.^[6] In the north-east of England he was signed by Newcastle Falcons academy. He played one loan game for Yorkshire Carnegie, then as Leeds Tykes.^[7] From the north-east he then moved to Cambridge University. He was at tight head in the Cambridge University R.U.F.C. team who beat Oxford in the 2005 University match at Twickenham.

He joined the Border Reivers in summer 2006 and his competition debut for Reivers was a replacement against Connacht at Netherdale on the opening day of the 2006–07 Magners League, and he had his first start the following month in the victory against another Irish province, Leinster, also at Netherdale. His first Reivers try was in the Heineken Cup victory against Overmach Parma at Netherdale in October 2006.

Ed Kalman joined Glasgow Warriors from the Reivers after the closure of the Borders pro-team in 2007.

Ed made his first appearance in a national context as a replacement for Scotland A against their Australian counterparts at McDiarmid Park, Perth, in November 2006. He also had a replacement role in the A international victory against Italy on the same ground three months later.

He played in a Gael Force team formed by the SRU to play in the British and Irish Cup.

In January 2012, he was called up to Scotland's senior squad for the 2012 Six Nations Championship.^[8][9]

The prop signed a new deal with the Warriors in 2011. He retired from playing rugby union at the end of season 2013–14 due to a back injury.^[10]

With his physics background at Durham University, he became a physics teacher^[11] and given his rugby background, the first team rugby coach; to Strathallan School, Perthshire in 2014^[12]

References

External links

• ESPN Profile
• Glasgowwarriors Profile