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Latest revision as of 20:04, 3 August 2026
| Columbia University | |
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| Location: New York, NY | |
| Current President or Coach | Robert Wang |
| National championships | 2019 ACF, 2021 ICT DI, 2026 ICT DII |
| NAQT Page | link |
- Not to be confused with Columbia College, Columbia Independent, or Columbia (NJ).
Columbia University is a private university in New York City. While their team has roots dating back to College Bowl in 1953, its current iteration was founded in 1994 and has been continuously active since. They have won three national championships: ACF Nationals in 2019, ICT DI in 2021, and ICT DII in 2026.
History
Columbia competed in GE College Bowl in 1959 and 1966.[1]
The current iteration was most likely founded by BYU alum Bill Atkinson in the 1994-95 season. The school left College Bowl and started attending ACF events two years later.
The club competed in the 1997 ICT under an A team of Bill Atkinson, Arif Kabir Paul Johnston, and Perry Smith.[2] In 1999, a team of Bill Atkinson, Ben Craycraft, Ben Letzler, and Andrew Ritz came in 8th in the 1999 ACF Nationals. [3]
Columbia returned to ACF Nationals for the second time in 2010 under a team of Rafael Krichevsky, Chris Horng, and Dan Passner. They have competed in every ACF Nationals since.
They won ACF Nationals 2019 with a team of Charlie Dees, Rafael Krichevsky, Ben Zhang, and Kevin Koai. They won the 2021 ICT (the chronologically next championship to happen) with an entirely different roster of Will Alston, Gerhardt Hinkle, Noah Chen, and Noah Sheidlower and came in second at 2021 ACF Nationals with a team of Alston, Chen, Sheidlower, and Caroline Mao.
In 2024, a team of freshmen Cooper Roh, Jack Rado, and Jason Qin, transfer student Derek Chen, and graduate student Andre Wong came in second in 2024 ICT DII, losing the final to Waterloo. This had been Columbia's best ICT DII finish. It was followed by top 5 finishes in both ICT divisions the following year.
In 2026, Columbia's Division II team of freshmen Robert Wang, Omkar Marathe, and Siray Zhu, and junior Scarlett Strickland, won the 2026 ICT DII title, the first championship in that division in club history. That same year, the team of Robert Wang, Moses Kitakule, Jason Qin, and Charles Young came in 5th in 2026 ACF Nationals.
Hosting
Columbia has hosted tournaments for both high school and college teams for the Northeast circuit. Their first known hosted tournament was SCT in 1999. Columbia hosted ACF Nationals in 2013, 2014, and 2017. It also hosted UG Nats in 2024. Similarly, Columbia has hosted open tournaments, starting with Minnesota Open in 2012, and regularly since hosting WAO and Cambridge Open in 2017. Columbia grew to becoming a known college host particularly under the auspices of Geoffrey Wu, who was Vice President and tournament director between 2022-23 and 2024-25.
Circa 2013 they started hosting high school tournaments. They hosted the NAQT Metro New York State Championship in 2015 and 2016, the Columbia Cup Spring Championship annually between 2017 and 2019 and the Columbia Fall Invitational in 2019. Throughout the early 2020s Columbia hosted non-NAQT packets. Columbia restarted hosting NAQT in fall 2025, with the Turkey Trot and the revival of the Columbia Cup.
Nationals Results
| ACF Nationals (2005–) | Division I ICT | Division II ICT | |
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| 1997 | A: 36th B: 53rd | ||
| 1999 | 8th | ||
| 2002 | 10th | ||
| 2003 | 19th | ||
| 2004 | 20th | 25th | |
| 2005 | 22nd | ||
| 2006 | 10th | ||
| 2010 | 16th | ||
| 2011 | 23rd | 16th | |
| 2012 | A: 11th B: 28th |
16th | |
| 2013 | 18th | 18th | |
| 2014 | A: 25th B: 20th |
12th | 9th |
| 2015 | 9th | 11th | |
| 2016 | A: 6th B: 14th |
A: 6th B: 24th |
C: 6th D: 20th |
| 2017 | 4th | 9th | |
| 2018 | 4th | 4th | |
| 2019 | 1st | 2nd | 6th |
| 2021 | 2nd | A: 1st B: 17th |
5th |
| 2022 | A: 12th B: 25th |
A: 16th B: 22nd |
13th |
| 2023 | A: 24th B: 37th |
A: 13th B: 13th |
N/A |
| 2024 | A: 9th B: 26th |
9th | 2nd |
| 2025 | A: 6th B: 43rd |
4th | 4th |
| 2026 | A: 5th B: 28th |
A: 12th B: 25th |
1st |
Board Members
2025-2026 Players
(Board members, those who qualified for, or are playing at Nationals)
- Olin Bose (President)
- Jack Rado (Chancellor)
- Shea Rathburn (Secretary)
- Scarlett Strickland (Treasurer)
- Annis Choi (Social Media Chair)
- Jason Qin
- Robert Wang
- Moses Kitakule
- Charles Young
- Chauncey Lo
- Brandon Weiss
- Jacob Dubner
- Zachary Joseph
- John Mitnik
- Omkar Marathe
- Siray Zhu
2024-2025 Players
(Board members, those who qualified for, or are playing at Nationals)
- William Groger (President)
- Geoffrey Wu (Vice President)
- Cooper Roh (Secretary)
- Jack Rado (Treasurer)
- Shea Rathburn (Social Media Chair)
- Jason Qin (Board Member)
- Elijah Scheinson (Board Member)
- Moses Kitakule
- Derek Chen
- Noah Chen
- Charles Young
- Chauncey Lo
- Brandon Weiss
- Olin Bose
- Andrew Yang
2021-22 Players
- Will Alston
- Harrison Whitaker
- Noah Chen
- Gareth Thorlakson
- Daniel Shao
- Gerhardt Hinkle
- Julia Tong (student at Barnard, but usually plays for Columbia)
- Tim Cho
- Asher Morse
- Noah Sheidlower
- Caroline Mao (student at Barnard)
- John John Groger
- Ryan Golant
- Shomik Ghose
Former Players
See also
- [4] History of the club by Raza Panjwani
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