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2019-20 (First Year): Finished 11-5, third best record on the team ... Went 2-0 at number one, 4-0 at number four and 5-3 at number 5 ... Finished the season with four straight wins ... Went a team best 7-3 over the final 10 matches ... Won all three matches played at the CSA Team National Championships (Feb. 28-Mar. 1) ... Beat Cornell's Luke Park, 11-6, 11-4, 11-4, in the final for the Hoehn Cup at the CSA Team National Championships.

HIGH SCHOOL: A 2019 graduate of Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Mass., where he played squash for head coach Mike Silipo. … Two-time Indian Junior National Champion … Reached the highest rank of No. 2 in Asia … Selected to represent India at the Asian Junior Games two times and finished fifth and sixth respectively … All-NEPSAC first Team selection as a junior and senior … No. 1 player for the Big Green as a sophomore junior and senior … Guided the Big Green to a third place finish at Nationals, second place finish in New England as a senior in 2019 … Named team captain as a senior … Competed for the Bombay Gymkhana Club Team … Earned Academic Honor Roll status at Deerfield as a junior and senior.
 
PERSONAL: Born Chaitanya Shah on November 13, 1999 in Mumbai, India … Son of Snehal and Radhika Shah … Has a brother Abhi … Brother Abhi graduated from Princeton in 2018 and was a four-year letterman and team captain ... Hobbies and interests include reading, exercising, spending time with friends from home and play with his dog Zoey … Became interested in Columbia through former Columbia national champion Osama Khalifa, who also attended Deerfield Academy … Chose Columbia over offers from George Washington, Bates, Amherst, Yale, Penn, Cornell, Princeton and Dartmouth …  Enrolled at Columbia College.