{"id":945387,"date":"2026-10-29T17:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945387\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T17:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:14:13","slug":"omas-kock-and-buckels-earn-summit-league-qualifier-bids-to-ita-masters-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/945387\/","title":{"rendered":"OMA\u2019s Kock and Buckels earn Summit League Qualifier Bids to ITA Masters Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                SIOUX FALLS, S.D. \u2013\u00a0The Omaha duo of Katelynn Kock and Khayli Buckels has earned bids to the upcoming ITA Conference Masters Championships, Summit League officials announced Thursday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe pair will represent the Summit League at the event, with Kock competing in both singles and doubles and Buckels participating in doubles. The selections were determined by a vote of Summit League head coaches.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKock owns the highest-rated World Tennis Number (16.8) and Universal Tennis Rating (9.29) in the conference. She earned All-Summit League honors for the second consecutive season after posting a perfect 6-0 record in conference singles play during the 2026 season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis fall, Kock holds a 3-3 singles record, with victories over Rebecca Miralles and Batalia Valera of Northern Illinois and Elise Brandstedt of Marquette.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nKock and Buckels posted a 4-3 record in doubles competition this fall. During the 2025-26 season, Kock went 20-4 in doubles while primarily competing at the No. 1 position and achieved a national ranking as high as No. 82. Buckels posted a 13-3 doubles record while competing at the No. 2 and No. 3 positions during the 2026 season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Summit League representatives will compete Nov. 5-8 at the Rome Tennis Center in Rome, Georgia. The four semifinalists in singles and the doubles champion and runner-up at the ITA Conference Masters Championships will earn berths in the NCAA individual championships, scheduled for Nov. 17-22 in Athens, Georgia.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n#SummitTEN<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; SIOUX FALLS, S.D. \u2013\u00a0The Omaha duo of Katelynn Kock and Khayli Buckels has earned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-945387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}