2023-24 Men's Tennis Roster
Sippel, Sam
Sam Sippel
- Class:
- Senior
- Hometown:
- Nuernberg, Germany
- High School:
- Kurpfalzgymnasium Mannheim
- Height:
- 6-5
- Prev School:
- Azusa Pacific
- Major:
- Master's of Business Administration
- NIL Exchange:
- Sam Sippel
Bio
CAREER HONORS
- NCAA National Singles Championship Participant (2024)
- NCAA National Doubles Championship Invitee (2024)
- 2x All-Mountain West in Singles (2023, 2024)
- All-Mountain West in Doubles (2024)
- Mountain West Championship MVP (2024)
- Mountain West Championship All-Tournament Team at No. 1 Singles (2024)
- Mountain West Championship All-Tournament Team at No. 1 Doubles (2024)
- ITA Singles All-American (2021*)
- ITA National Rookie of the Year (2020*)
- ITA West Region Rookie of the Year (2020*)
- ITA Fall Singles All-American (2020*)
- PacWest Freshman of the Year (2021*)
- All-PacWest First Team in Singles (2021*)
- All-PacWest First Team in Doubles (2021*)
- All-PacWest Second Team in Singles (2022*)
- 3x CSC (formerly CoSIDA) Academic All-American (2021*, 2022*, 2024)
- 4x CSC Academic All-District (2021*, 2022*, 2023, 2024)
- 4x ITA Scholar-Athlete (2020*, 2021*, 2022*, 2023, 2024)
- D2ADA Academic Achievement Award (2022*)
- PacWest Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2022*)
- 2x Academic All-Mountain West (2023, 2024)
- 2x Mountain West Scholar-Athlete (2023, 2024)
- 3x Academic All-PacWest (2020*, 2021*, 2022*)
* = at previous school
FIFTH YEAR (2023-24)
- Honors: NCAA National Singles Championship participant and invited to the doubles championship...All-Mountain West in singles and doubles...MW Championship MVP...MW Championship All-Tournament Team at No. 1 singles and doubles...CSC (formerly CoSIDA) Academic All-American...CSC Academic All-District...Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Scholar-Athlete...Academic All-MW and MW Scholar-Athlete (3.5 GPA or better).
- Notable Statistics & Rankings: Finished year with singles record of 18-17 overall, 11-11 in duals, 7-6 in tournaments and 2-2 in league play...went 17-13 in doubles, including 14-10 in spring duals, 3-3 in tournaments and 4-1 in conference...was 3-10 versus nationally ranked singles opponents...was ranked as high as No. 41 nationally in singles (Feb. 7 and 20) before finishing unranked...ranked as high as 31st in doubles with Jip van Assendelft (March 19) before finishing at No. 63.
- Fall Season: Played in two fall tournaments going 7-4 in singles and 2-1 in doubles...invited to ITA All-American Championship (Oct. 2-6) in singles where he advanced out of the qualifying rounds and into the main draw where he reached the consolation quarterfinals...recorded ranked wins versus No. 84 Christian Lerby of Santa Clara (Oct. 3) and No. 74 Hunter Heck of Illinois (Oct. 6).
- Spring Season: Competed in 29 of 31 contests during the team dual season going 11-11 in singles and 14-10 in doubles...went 11-10 at No. 1 singles... played 13 ranked opponents during the year going 3-10...recorded ranked win versus No. 66 Quinn Vandecasteele from Oregon (Jan. 27) during the ITA Kickoff Weekend match at Columbus, Ohio...was 14-10 in doubles during the spring going 8-3 at No. 1 position with Jan Lucca Marquardt...went 6-7 on court one with van Assendelft...recorded a ranked win with van Assendelft over No. 16 Codie van Schalkwyk and Connor van Schalkwyk from Old Dominion at the Blue Gray National Tennis Classic (Feb. 24)...went 2-0 in both singles and doubles at MW Championship (April 24-26) at Las Vegas to help Broncos sweep the conference's regular season and tournament championships.
SENIOR (2022-23)
- Transferred to Boise State for fall 2022 semester.
- Honors: All-MW in singles...CSC Academic All-District...ITA Scholar-Athlete...Academic All-MW and MW Scholar-Athlete (3.5 GPA or better).
- Notable Statistics & Rankings: Recorded an 18-10 singles record, third on the team for wins...went 21-15 in doubles, fourth-most doubles wins on team...tallied a combined 39 victories on the year.
- Fall Season: Competed in three fall tournaments going 7-3 in singles...reached the final at the ITA Bedford Cup in the Mountains (Sept. 23-25)...went 2-1 at the ITA Mountain Region Championships (Oct. 13-17)...tallied a 9-2 mark in doubles while playing with three different partners...won the ITA Bedford Cup in the Mountains title with Caden Moortgat...won the consolation championship at the ITA Mountain Regional (Oct. 13-16) with James Van Herzeele going 3-1.
- Spring Season: Finished the spring semester with an 11-7 singles mark...saw singles action in 23 team duals going 8-7...went 2-1 on court two at the Mountain West Championship (April 26-28) helping the Broncos to the title in Las Vegas...overall record in doubles for the spring was 12-13...played doubles in 20 duals going 10-9...split time playing with two partners going 9-4 at No. 3 with Jan Lucca Marquardt and 1-5 with Moortgat.
JUNIOR (2021-22 at Azusa Pacific)
- Honors: All-PacWest Second Team...CoSIDA Academic All-American…CoSIDA Academic All-District…ITA Scholar-Athlete...D2ADA Academic Achievement Award…PacWest Scholar-Athlete of the Year…Academic All-PacWest.
- Spring Season: Went 18-4 in singles at No. 2 for the Cougars; 14 of those matches were won in straight sets...finished the season on a 10-match wins streak...finished the year ranked No. 33 in the ITA's national singles rankings and fifth in the West Region…ended the year with a 15-5 doubles record…played doubles primarily with Ethan Smith going 15-4 overall and 14-4 at the No. 3 position; final regional ranking for the tandem was No. 8.
SOPHOMORE (2020-21 at Azusa Pacific)
- Honors: ITA Singles All-American…PacWest Freshman of the Year…All-PacWest First Team in singles and doubles… CoSIDA Academic All-American…CoSIDA Academic All-District…ITA Scholar-Athlete…Academic All-PacWest.
- Fall Season: The fall season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Spring Season: Finished the spring at 15-2 overall in singles playing primarily at the No. 2 position where he went 14-1, 1-1 at No. 1…ended the season ranked No. 14 nationally in the ITA NCAA Division II for singles and ranked third in the West Region…all 15 singles victories were in straight sets…in the Cougars 6-1 victory over No. 17 Concordia (March 13), he defeated Patrick Wong in straight sets, Wong ended the season ranked No. 9 in the West Region…defeated Felix Einig of Hawai’i Pacific (May 7) 6-2, 6-4, Einig was ranked No. 39 nationally…ranked No. 5 regionally in doubles with partner Ryan Nuno after posting a 16-3 record going 14-3 on court two and 2-0 at the No. 1 position…had a 14-match win streak in doubles with Nuno spanning from March 6 until April 24.
FRESHMAN (2019-20 at Azusa Pacific)
- Honors: ITA National Rookie of the Year...ITA West Region Rookie of the Year... ITA Fall Singles All-American...ITA Fall West Region Singles Champion...ITA Scholar-Athlete... Academic All-PacWest.
- Fall Season: Reached the ITA Fall Nationals semifinal in singles…won the singles title at the ITA West Region Championships…finished the fall campaign ranked third nationally in the ITA NCAA Division II for singles…in doubles, finished the fall ranked 18th nationally with Jakob Schnaitter.
- Spring Season: Posted a perfect 9-0 singles record at the No. 2 spot for the Cougars...won eight of his nine matches in straight sets…season was cut short because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
WBB | Highlights vs Nevada
Monday, March 10
Arca Costas on Day One of General Patton Fall Invite
Saturday, September 17
Highlights from Saturday's General Patton Fall Invite
Saturday, September 17
Marquardt on Day One of General Patton Fall Invite
Friday, September 16
