2024-25 Women's Tennis Roster
Roster
Zipoli, Allison
/ Women's Tennis
/ Women's Tennis
/ Women's Tennis
/ Women's Tennis
/ Women's Tennis
/ Women's Tennis
/ Women's Tennis
/ Women's Tennis
/ Women's Tennis
Allison Zipoli
- Class:
- Redshirt Junior
- High School:
- New Trier
- Hometown:
- Winnetka, Illinois
Bio
Honors at Rice
2024-25 (Redshirt Junior)
Returned to action after her injury from her sophomore season ... Earned an 8-8 singles and 0-2 doubles record in her return ... Won first three matches back, including an emphatic 6-0, 6-1, victory in her first match in over a year against Sam Houston ... Had a streak of six matches where she went unbeaten, winning four and not finishing two between March 23 and April 18 ... Named CSC Academic All-District.
2023-24 (Redshirt Sophomore)
Did not appear during the 2023-24 season due to injury.
2022-23 (Sophomore)
Spring: Finished 7-9 while handling the brunt of assignments at the first singles line… 2-1 in conference action in the regular season and 1-1 and the C-USA Championship (leading 5-3 in her unfinished match)… Provided two of the four points in Rice’s win at #30 Charlotte on 3/19… Combined with El Jardi to surge late and clinch the doubles point and then answered Charlotte’s increasing its lead to 3-1 by bouncing back from a second-set loss to score the Owls’ second point with a 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 win… Combined with El Jardi to clinch the doubles point in he following match vs. #57 Brown… Defeated SMU’s #54 Taylor Johnson and Jackie Nylander 6-2 on 4/8… El Jardi and Zipoli rose to as high as #80 in ITA computer rankings during the year. Fall: 4-3 in singles and 7-3 in doubles… 5-2 with Marte Lambrecht and 2-0 with Diae El Jardi in tournament doubles play… Ranked 28th with El Jardi in ITA’s post-fall rankings.
2021-22 (Freshman)
Spring: Led the Owls with 15 wins in singles (15-4) and added 15 in doubles (15-5) on her way to winning the Kay Pearson Keating Award as team MVP… Named to the C-USA All-Freshman team as well as to the All C-USA Doubles second team with Anastasia Smirnova… Second on the team with three clinch points, the first coming in a three-set comeback win over FAU’s Lexi Silna (3-6, 6-4, 6-1) to give Rice a 4-3 win in the consolation match at the ITA Kickoff Austin Regional… Also delivered the clinch points vs. LSU and Houston… Won her first six singles matches in dual action and was named the Conference USA's Female Tennis Athlete of the Week after her clinching win over LSU… Fall: 5-2 in singles and 5-1 in doubles in her first collegiate action.
Juniors
Ranked as a five-star recruit by tennisrecruiting.net and was ranked as high as 21st among high school seniors this past year... Nation L2 singles and doubles champion... National L2 singles and doubles finalist. Two-time National L3 singles and doubles champion... Member of U18 National Baird Cup Team. Member of U14 and U16 Intersectional Team... Semifinalist of U16 Clay Court Doubles.
Personal
Born: May 28 in Chicago, Illinois... Parents: Greg and Dianna Zipoli...one brother (Jake) who plays tennis at Xavier... Mother played at North Carolina... Rice major: undeclared...Rice college: Wiess.
- 2023-24 AAC All-Academic Team
- Conference USA Commissioner's Academic Medal (2023)
- Conference USA Commissioner's Honor Roll (2022, 2023)
- ITA Scholar-Athlete (2022, 2023)
- Conference USA Female Tennis Athlete of the Week (2/23/22)
- All C-USA Doubles (second team) 2022
- C-USA All-Freshman 2022
- Kay Pearson Keating Award (Team MVP) 2022
2024-25 (Redshirt Junior)
Returned to action after her injury from her sophomore season ... Earned an 8-8 singles and 0-2 doubles record in her return ... Won first three matches back, including an emphatic 6-0, 6-1, victory in her first match in over a year against Sam Houston ... Had a streak of six matches where she went unbeaten, winning four and not finishing two between March 23 and April 18 ... Named CSC Academic All-District.
2023-24 (Redshirt Sophomore)
Did not appear during the 2023-24 season due to injury.
2022-23 (Sophomore)
Spring: Finished 7-9 while handling the brunt of assignments at the first singles line… 2-1 in conference action in the regular season and 1-1 and the C-USA Championship (leading 5-3 in her unfinished match)… Provided two of the four points in Rice’s win at #30 Charlotte on 3/19… Combined with El Jardi to surge late and clinch the doubles point and then answered Charlotte’s increasing its lead to 3-1 by bouncing back from a second-set loss to score the Owls’ second point with a 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 win… Combined with El Jardi to clinch the doubles point in he following match vs. #57 Brown… Defeated SMU’s #54 Taylor Johnson and Jackie Nylander 6-2 on 4/8… El Jardi and Zipoli rose to as high as #80 in ITA computer rankings during the year. Fall: 4-3 in singles and 7-3 in doubles… 5-2 with Marte Lambrecht and 2-0 with Diae El Jardi in tournament doubles play… Ranked 28th with El Jardi in ITA’s post-fall rankings.
2021-22 (Freshman)
Spring: Led the Owls with 15 wins in singles (15-4) and added 15 in doubles (15-5) on her way to winning the Kay Pearson Keating Award as team MVP… Named to the C-USA All-Freshman team as well as to the All C-USA Doubles second team with Anastasia Smirnova… Second on the team with three clinch points, the first coming in a three-set comeback win over FAU’s Lexi Silna (3-6, 6-4, 6-1) to give Rice a 4-3 win in the consolation match at the ITA Kickoff Austin Regional… Also delivered the clinch points vs. LSU and Houston… Won her first six singles matches in dual action and was named the Conference USA's Female Tennis Athlete of the Week after her clinching win over LSU… Fall: 5-2 in singles and 5-1 in doubles in her first collegiate action.
Juniors
Ranked as a five-star recruit by tennisrecruiting.net and was ranked as high as 21st among high school seniors this past year... Nation L2 singles and doubles champion... National L2 singles and doubles finalist. Two-time National L3 singles and doubles champion... Member of U18 National Baird Cup Team. Member of U14 and U16 Intersectional Team... Semifinalist of U16 Clay Court Doubles.
Personal
Born: May 28 in Chicago, Illinois... Parents: Greg and Dianna Zipoli...one brother (Jake) who plays tennis at Xavier... Mother played at North Carolina... Rice major: undeclared...Rice college: Wiess.
| Singles | Overall | Tour | Dual | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 20-6 | 5-2 | 15-4 | - | 2-1 | 10-1 | 3-2 | - | - |
| 2022-23 | 11-12 | 4-3 | 7-9 | 7-9 | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2023-24 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2024-25 | 8-8 | 0-0 | 8-8 | - | - | 0-1 | 3-2 | 3-5 | 2-0 |
| TOTAL | 39-26 | 9-5 | 30-21 | 7-9 | 2-1 | 10-2 | 6-4 | 3-5 | 2-0 |
| Doubles | Overall | Tour | Dual | #1 | #2 | #3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-22 | 15-7 | 5-1 | 10-6 | - | 10-6 | - |
| 2022-23 | 14-12 | 7-3 | 7-9 | 6-7 | - | 1-2 |
| 2023-24 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2024-25 | 0-2 | 0-0 | 0-2 | - | - | 0-2 |
| TOTAL | 29-21 | 12-4 | 17-17 | 6-7 | 10-6 | 1-4 |
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| Wiess College |
2024 Night of the Owl End of Year Recap
Thursday, April 25
2023 Rice Tennis Facilities
Wednesday, September 13
Tommy McClelland Introductory Press Conference
Sunday, August 06
2023 Night of The Owl End of Year Highlight
Tuesday, April 25
