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All-Ivy League First Team, singles (2016, 2018)
All-Ivy League First Team, doubles (2016)
All-Ivy League Second Team, singles (2019)
All-Ivy League Second Team, doubles (2019)
Ivy League Rookie of the Year (2016)
ITA Northeast Region Rookie of the Year (2016)
ITA Northeast Region Singles Champion (2018)
Google Cloud Academic All-District At-Large Team (2019)  

As a senior (2018-19)

Dual season
• Named to All-Ivy League second team for both singles and doubles.
• Google Cloud Academic All-District At-Large Team selection.
• Posted 7-3 record in singles after returning from an injury for the last two months of the season, progressing from No. 4 to No. 2 in the lineup.
• Won first seven singles matches, including Ivy League victories against opponents from Brown, Penn and Princeton.
• Finished season ranked fourth in the Northeast Region and 79th nationally by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association.
• Recorded 4-3 record in doubles, with all but one match coming alongside Daniel Soyfer from the No. 1.
• Combined with Soyfer to go 3-3 in Ivy League play and finish the year ranked fifth in the region and 62nd in the nation.
Fall tournaments
• Won ITA Northeast Region singles championship with six consecutive victories, including three against nationally-ranked opponents in the final rounds.
• Advanced into the Round of 16 at the 2018 Oracle ITA National Fall Championships, defeating a pair of top-30 opponents before being knocked off by the No. 1-ranked player in the nation.
• Earned main-draw singles entry into Canada F7 Futures event.

As a junior (2017-18)

• Second career All-Ivy League first team selection for singles.
• 9-5 in singles, with all but two matches coming from the No. 1 position.
• Won seven straight singles matches to reach completion from Feb. 18 to April 6, all in straight sets.
• 2-2 in Ivy League play with victories against opponents from Princeton and Yale.
• Appeared in all of the team's doubles matches and tied for the team lead in victories with a 9-11 record.
• All but one doubles match came alongside Joseph McAllister at the lower two positions.
• 3-3 in Ivy League doubles tilts, with victories against opponents from Princeton, Dartmouth and Brown.

As a sophomore (2016-17)

• Battled through injuries for most of the year, posting a 4-6 record from the top two positions in singles and 9-6 mark in doubles during dual matches.
• 2-1 in Ivy League play, plus a victory over a nationally-ranked opponent from Wichita State.
• 4-2 in Ivy doubles matches alongside Lev Kazakov after competing much of the non-league schedule with Colin Sinclair.
• Deployed sparingly in fall tournaments, winning once in singles to reach the Round of 16 at the ITF Canada F9 Futures before being eliminated, also dropping a first-round match at the USTA Challenger of Champaign-Urbana.
• Only doubles action was at the USTA/ITA Northeast Regional, pairing with Sinclair to win a pair of matches in reaching the quarterfinals.

As a freshman (2015-16)

• ITA Northeast Region Rookie of the Year.
• Ivy League Rookie of the Year.
• All-Ivy League first team selection for both singles (unanimous pick) and doubles.
• Program's third all-league first team selection in both singles and doubles in the same year (Andy Gauthier All-Ivy in 2010; Bill Gauger All-EITA in 1982).
• Posted a 11-6 record in singles during dual match play, competing exclusively at the No. 1 position.
• Finished the year ranked third in the Northeast Region by the ITA.
• Six opponents were nationally ranked at the time of matches, with Volfson defeating then-#81 Dovydas Sakinis, of Dartmouth, in a match on April 3.
• 4-1 in Ivy League matches with lone loss coming in three sets against Columbia’s Shawn Hadavi, who was unanimously selected as the league’s Player of the Year.
• Paired with junior Colin Sinclair in doubles to finish the season ranked 62th in the country and sixth in the Northeast Region in doubles.
• At the beginning of the fall season, ranked No. 2 on the Oracle/ITA Division I Men’s National Newcomer/Freshmen Rankings.
• In first collegiate tournament, advanced to the semifinals of the ITA Northeast Regional Championships.

Prior to Cornell

• Entered the fall season with an ATP ranking of 988 after a rise of 20 places in the wake of a trip to the quarterfinals at a Futures event in Latvia.
• Among the top 20 in college tennis in terms of professional ranking.
• Competed in the qualifying draw at the Masters 1000 event in Montreal.
• A total of 14 main draw singles matches and six main draw doubles matches at the Futures level.
• Battled closely with Ti Chen, the 215th-ranked player in the world, before eventually falling, 6-3, 4-6, 4-6.
• Consistently among the best Canadian players in his age group, including three national championships in the U12, U14 and U16 age brackets.

Personal

• David Boris Volfson is the son of Roman and Irina Volfson, and he has two sisters.
• Enrolled in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and the SC Johnson College of Business.