Career
926 in 2002. He played for one season at Lynn in Boca Raton, Florida, and had earned several honors and titles, including finishing the 2005 season ranked 11th in American college tennis. Balzekas died at a Florida hospital where he was taken after being struck by a car. The accident occurred on October 8, 2005.
At the time he was helping a friend push a disabled vehicle along the side of a road.
A Boca Raton man was sentenced to a year and one day in prison for the death of Balzekas. He pleaded guilty to driving drunk and killing Balzekas.