FARMINGTON, Utah (Oct. 23, 2026) – The Big Sky Conference announced its selections for the 2026 ITA Conference Masters Championships, with two singles participants and two doubles teams getting the nod.
The conference's automatic qualifiers were selected from a pool of nominees submitted by the league's head coaches, who were not permitted to vote for their own nominees.
Idaho's Yu-Ching Hsieh was selected as the women's singles representative, while Northern Arizona's tandem of Maddy Ludwig and Natalie Rainke earned the women's doubles team selection.
Northern Arizona swept the men's selections, with Jakub Jedrzejczak getting the nod for singles and pairing Vincent Vohl for doubles play. The Lumberjacks earned both selections after nominees from Montana and Idaho State opted to compete at the ITA Sectional Championships in Tempe, Ariz., instead of the ITA Masters.
The six selections by the Big Sky Conference will compete at the ITA Conference Masters Championships, which take place on Nov. 5-8 at the Rome Tennis Center in Rome, Ga.
Each Division I conference will send one singles player and one doubles team to the event to played at the Rome Tennis Center with the four singles semifinalists and top three doubles teams qualifying for the NCAA Division I Individual Championships in Athens, Ga. from Nov. 17-22.
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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