Ramit Tandon makes history as Columbia Athletics Hall of Fame’s first squash player
Columbia University confirmed on July 16 that its 2026 Athletics Hall of Fame class includes 22 individual inductees and four teams, spanning ten sports programmes and more than a century of the university’s sporting history. Among the men’s modern-era inductees is Kolkata-born squash player Ramit Tandon, who left a career on Wall Street to pursue the PSA World Tour. The formal induction will take place on October 22 at a black-tie ceremony at Cipriani 25 Broadway, kicking off Columbia’s Homecoming Weekend. For Tandon, the honour carries two historic firsts. “An Indian being honoured at an American university, being the first Indian to be in the Hall of Fame, and then obviously my sport, squash, is not as famous as baseball or basketball or tennis for that matter,” he told The Bridge over the phone. “So, to be the first squash player also in that list is extremely, extremely special.” From Wall Street to the PSA Tour Tandon’s path to a professional squash career was anything but conventional. He arrived at Columbia in 2011 as India’s …
