Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 2008
As a sophomore in 1995, Diaz won the Atlantic Coast Conference individual championship while helping the Deacons to the conference team title and a third-place finish in the NCAA Tournament.
As a junior, Diaz managed eight top-10 finishes and was named the ACC Player of the Year. As a senior, she finished in the top 10 in nine of 10 tournaments.
A three-year All-ACC selection, she helped the Deacons to 12 tournament championships during her career including five of six in 1994. In 1997, Diaz received the Marge Crisp Award as Wake Forest's top female student-athlete. On the LPGA Tour, Diaz's breakthrough season came in 2002 when she posted 10 top-10 finishes and won the Welch's/Circle K Championship and the LPGA Corning Classic.
Three years later, she won a point for the U.S. team in the Solheim Cup while pregnant. Two months after giving birth to a son, Robert, she competed in an LPGA tournament.
Diaz was inducted into the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame on Jan. 19, 2008.
