Akul Ramayani

Akul Ramayani is an American racquetball player from Poughkeepsie, New York, born on 12 April 2002. He discovered the sport at age eight at a recreation center, was coached by his father, and won his first national championship at eleven at the 2013 Wilson Junior Olympics. Across his junior career he became a three-time Junior World Champion, an eight-time USA national gold medalist and a six-time All-American, and he won a bronze medal and team MVP honors for the United States at the 2014 World Junior Racquetball Championships in Cali, Colombia. USA Racquetball named him its 2018 Junior Athlete of the Year after three golds at nationals and two at Junior Worlds. At 6 feet 3 inches he is unusually tall for the game. He studied at Brooklyn College, was pursuing a combined MD and MPH degree at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University as of 2024, and has co-founded a startup.