FARMINGTON, Utah (Oct. 27, 2025) – The Big Sky Conference announced its selections for the ITA Conference Masters Championships, with two singles participants and two doubles teams getting the nod. The automatic qualifiers were selected from a pool of nominees by the league's head coaches, who could not vote for their own nominees.
Northern Arizona's Patrycja Niewiadomska was selected as the women's singles representative, while Sacramento State's tandem of
Irene Riva and Lou Baudouin getting the nod for the women's doubles team.
Montana's Tom Bittner was voted as the men's singles selection, while the Northern Arizona duo of Takumi Katsuda and Vincent Vohl was picked as the doubles selection on the men's side.
The six selections by the Big Sky Conference will compete at the ITA Conference Masters Championships, which take place on Nov. 6-9 at the Barnes Tennis Center in San Diego, California.
Each Division I conference will send one singles player and one doubles team to the event to played at the Barnes Tennis Center, with the four singles semifinalists and top three doubles teams qualifying for the NCAA Division I Individual Championships in Lake Nona, Florida from Nov. 18-23.
The ITA Conference Masters Championships are one of four qualifying tournaments that will seed the field for the NCAA Individual Championships, joining the ITA All-American Championships (10 singles, four doubles), the ITA Regional Championships (26 singles, 13 doubles), and the ITA Sectional Qualifiers (24 singles, 12 doubles). All told, 64 singles players and 32 doubles teams will vie for the NCAA Individual Championships.
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