BATON ROUGE — LSU’s Ken Skupski has been selected to compete in the 2006 NCAA Singles Championships and will pair with teammate Mark Growcott at the Doubles Championships as announced by the NCAA Championship Subcommittee.
This is Skupski’s third consecutive trip to the NCAA Championships. The Tiger junior and co-captain is currently 28-8 overall this season with an 18-5 record in dual matches. Skupski was ranked 14th in the final singles poll of the regular season.
Skupski and Growcott reached the finals of last season’s Doubles Championships and will look to match that run this year. The duo boast a 20-7 overall record this season and were 9-2 during SEC play.
LSU’s No. 3 doubles pair of Danny Bryan and Colt Gaston were selected as alternates for the Doubles Championships. The duo led the Tigers in doubles wins this season with 25 and were ranked 38th in the final ITA poll. Both players were also named second-team All-SEC.
The 2006 NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships will be held May 24-29 at the Taube Tennis Center in Stanford, Calif., following the conclusion of the team championship May 20-23.
NCAA Singles and Doubles Championship Fields
SINGLES
Seeds 1 – 8
1.Benjamin Kohlloeffel – UCLA
2.John Isner – Georgia
3.Luigi D’Agord – Miami (Florida)
4.Lars Poerschke – Baylor
5.Ludovic Walter – Duke
6.Conor Niland – California
7.Arnau Brugues – Tulsa
8.Travis Helgeson – Texas
Seeds 9 – 16, listed alphabetically by last name
Matt Bruch – Stanford
Daniel Byrnes – Oklahoma State
Ryler DeHeart – Illinois
Somdev Devvarman – Virginia
Scott Doerner – Pepperdine
Arnaud Lecloerec – Virginia Commonwealth
Raian Luchici – North Carolina
Jerry Makowski – Texas A&M
Automatic Qualifiers (listed by conference)
Atlantic Sun – Marcus Echtler – Stetson
Atlantic 10 – Roy Sichel – Charlotte
Big East – Stephen Bass – Notre Dame
Big West – Arnar Sigurdsson – Pacific
Big Sky – Federico Ueltschi – Montana State
Big South – Martin Sayer – Radford
Ivy – Brandon Wai – Yale
MAC – Matt Baccarani – Ball State
Mountain West – Andrei Mlendea – TCU
Southland – Raul Morant – Rivas – Texas A&M – Corpus Christi
Sun Belt – Andreas Siljestrom – Middle Tennessee
WAC – Luke Shields – Boise State
At – Large Singles Players (listed alphabetically by last name)
Ytai Abougzir – Florida State
Kevin Anderson – Illinois
Callum Beale – Texas
Dirk Britzen – South Florida
Jakub Cech – Fresno State
Eric Claesson – Mississippi
KC Corkery – Stanford
Luis Flores – Georgia
Roger Gubser – Texas
Alex Hume – Kentucky
Michal Kokta – Baylor
Bryan Koniecko – Ohio State
Matko Maravic – Michigan
Roger Matalonga – Arizona
Eric Molnar – Colorado
Vladimir Obradovic – Florida
Peter Oredsson – SMU
Greg Ouellette – Florida
Sheeva Parbhu – Notre Dame
Todd Paul – Wake Forest
Ryan Preston – Vanderbilt
Adrian Prpic – Texas Tech
Arvid Puranen – Virginia Tech
Slavko Radman – Louisville
Clement Reix – Clemson
Pedro Rico – Pepperdine
Rylan Rizza – Virginia
Robert Searle – Rice
Ken Skupski – LSU
Alex Skrypko – SMU
Alex Slovic – Washington
Harel Srugo – Old Dominion
Jonathan Stokke – Duke
Erling Tveit – Mississippi
Pierrick Ysern – San Diego
Adrians Zguns – Arkansas
Alternates
1. D.J. Geatz – Minnesota
2. Strahinja Bobusic – Georgia
3. Joseph Jung – Alabama
4. Frederico Soriano – Tulsa
5. Treat Huey – Virginia
6. Matic Omerzel – Georgia
7. Matija Zgaga – Baylor
8. James Wan – Stanford
DOUBLES
Top 1 – 4
1. Scott Green/Ross Wilson – Ohio State
2. Philipp Gruendler/Benjamin Kohlloeffel – UCLA
3. Scott Doerner/Andre Begemann – Pepperdine
4. Kevin Anderson/Ryan Rowe – Illinois
Seeds 5 – 8, listed alphabetically by school:
Andreas Siljestrom/Marco Born – Middle Tennessee
Eric Claesson/Erling Tveit – Mississippi
Brad Pomeroy/Raian Luchici – North Carolina
Rylan Rizza/Nick Meythaler – Virginia
Automatic Qualifiers (listed alphabetically school)
Big 12 – Michal Kokta/Lars Poerschke – Baylor
Big East – Jakob Gustafsson/Jeremy Clark – Louisville
Colonial – Harel Srugo/Aleksandr Seleznev – Old Dominion
C-USA – Robert Searle/Konstantin Haerle – Rice
MAC – Matt Baccarani/Patrick Thompson – Ball State
Mountain West – Markus Dickhardt/Benedikt Stronk – San Diego State
Ivy – Ashwin Kumar/Sasha Ermakov – Harvard
WAC – Thomas Schoeck/Luke Shields – Boise State
Remaining Teams (listed alphabetically by school)
Conor Niland/Tyler Browne – California
Clement Reix/Jermaine Jenkins – Clemson
Jonathan Stokke/Joey Atas – Duke
Chris Westerhof/Ytai Abougzir – Florida St.
Strahinja Bobusic/Colin Purcell – Georgia
John Isner/Antonio Ruiz – Georgia
Ryler Deheart/Pramod Dabir – Illinois
Ken Skupski/Mark Growcott – LSU
Luigi D’Agord/Daniel Vallverdu – Miami (Florida)
Brian Hung/Matko Maravic – Michigan
Eric Langenkamp/Ryan Keckley – Notre Dame
KC Corkery/James Pade – Stanford
Pierrick Ysern/Thomas Liversage – San Diego
Ben Rogers/Adam Hubble – Tennessee
Callum Beale/Miguel Reyes Varela – Texas
Rafael Abreu/Jordan Freitas – TCU
Alternates
1. Nick Coutts/Zach Ganger – Utah
2. Geraldo Knorr/Yevgeny Supeko – South Carolina
3. Adam Schaechterle/Matt Christian – Northwestern
4. Colt Gaston/Danny Bryan – LSU
5. Alexei Ivanov/Marek Velicka – Oklahoma
6. Sergui Modoc/Sam Gibbs – Fresno State