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Career Best Scores: 3:09.90 in one-meter dual meet: 313.30 in one-meter championship meet; 338.33 in three-meter dual meet; 324.65 in three-meter championship meet; 242.75 in platform diving General: Was the most outstanding freshman men's diver for Carolina in 2006-07 in both dual meet scores and championship meet scores...will be one of the team's top divers again this season as a returning letterman.
2006-06:Competed in both springboard diving events at ACC Championships...earned 16th in the one-meter and 13th on the three-meter board...recorded a career best in a one-meter dual meet with a 309.90 against Johns Hopkins...set a career best for a dual setting in the three-meter with a 324.65 versus Minnesota...both dual meet scores placed him third on the year on the team depth chart...named to the 2006-07 ACC Academic Honor Roll...merited a spot in the UNC Dean's List in both semesters of the 2006-07 school year. Prep: Graduated on June 10, 2006 from Westlake High School...dove and also swam the backstroke for fours years on his high school team...was a hurdler and pole vaulter on the track team for three years...also played a year of tennis...a first-team All-America and first-team All-State selection in diving...Junior National qualifier...sectional and district champion and conference record holder...captain of team and scholar-athlete award winner...led swimming team to conference championship...as a pole vaulter he was first-team All-Conference and a district and regional qualifier...AP scholar...graduated Summa Cum Laude...National Honor Society member. Personal: Given name is David Alan Solarz...son of Mike and Martha Solarz...was born September 15, 1987 in Fairview, Ohio...has one brother, Mike, 18, and two sisters, Sarah, 17, and Julie 12.
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