Sippel and Van Assendelft Selected for NCAA National Championships

Courtesy of Boise State Athletics – 

INDIANAPOLIS – Boise State’s Sam Sippel and Jip van Assendelft have been selected to compete at the 2024 NCAA Men’s Tennis National Singles and Doubles Championships, which will be held May 20-25 in Stillwater, Okla.

Sippel has been selected to compete in both singles and doubles with van Assendelft as his doubles partner.

“I am proud of both Sam and Jip,” head coach Luke Shields said. “Sam and Jip in doubles took advantage of a great schedule and played some great tennis early in the season. The tougher the competition, the better they played.

“I’m really proud of Sam in singles. His run at All-American and our conference tournament set him up to make it. This was his goal all year. I’m so happy for him to reach this goal and think he has a great opportunity to do damage at the NCAAs.”

Sippel’s selection as one of 64 invitees nationally marks a significant milestone in Boise State’s tennis history. He is the first Bronco to be chosen for the NCAA National Singles Championship since Andy Bettles in 2013 and 2014. The German native is the 12th Bronco to be invited to the national singles tournament in program history.

The farthest any Broncos have advanced in singles is the round of 16, which Guillaume Bouvier accomplished in 2004, and current Boise State head coach Luke Shields, who made it in 2005.

In doubles, Sippel and van Assendelft are the first Boise State tandem to be invited to the NCAA National Doubles Championship since Kean Feeder and James Meredith in 2009. They are one of 32 doubles teams to receive an invite. They will be the eighth Bronco doubles team to ever participate in the national championship.

The top Boise State performance at the doubles championship was by Leif Meineke and Wesley Moodie in 1999 who reached the national semifinals.

But before that happens, Sippel, van Assendelft, and their Bronco teammates will travel to Tucson, Ariz., this week to play the 11th-ranked Arizona Wildcats in the first round of the NCAA Men’s Tennis National Team Championship this Friday at 2 p.m. MT.