Andrew Campbell (sailor)

Andrew Campbell
Medal record
Sailing
Representing United States
Pan American Games

Andrew Campbell (born 3 February 1984 in Toms River, New Jersey) is an American yachtsman best known for his outstanding performances at the national collegiate level and who represented the United States in Laser competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Raised in Toms River, New Jersey, Campbell first learned to sail as a child in Toms River with the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association and moved to San Diego, California at the age of eight.[1]

Sailing career

Campbell is the former Commodore of the Georgetown University Hoyas Sailing Team (GUST). At Georgetown, he led the #1 ranked Hoyas to three singlehanded national championships , a second-place finish in the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA) championships in Hood River, Oregon, and a first-place finish at the 2006 ICSA Team Race National Championships in Charleston, South Carolina. He was named an ICSA All-American four consecutive years, male Sailing Athlete of the Year in 2002 and 2005, and College Sailor of the Year in 2006.

Sports Illustrated placed him 10th on their list of Georgetown's Top 10 All-Time Athletes.[2]

In September 2007 he won the men's Laser Olympic qualifiers in Newport, Rhode Island.

Personal life

Campbell is the latest in a long lineage of sailing greats from the San Diego Yacht Club, in the unusual design of the Naples Sabot, commonly used for junior programs on the West Coast. He attended The Bishop's School in San Diego, CA suburb La Jolla.

He currently lives in Washington, DC with his wife Jacqueline Campbell (née Schmitz).

References

Munson, John. "America's Cup racing comes to Hudson River with N.J. native on Team USA", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 6, 2016. Accessed November 22, 2017. "'As a boy from Toms River sailing in the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association, Campbell learned "to be adventurous and self reliant sailing with myself or one other person and exploring, getting stuck capsized in the river, and figuring out how to problem solve with sailing as the mechanism for that learning'.... At age eight his family moved from Toms River to San Diego where the weather is nearly perfect year round."
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[1] Munson, John. "America's Cup racing comes to Hudson River with N.J. native on Team USA", NJ Advance Media for NJ.com, May 6, 2016. Accessed November 22, 2017. "'As a boy from Toms River sailing in the Barnegat Bay Yacht Racing Association, Campbell learned "to be adventurous and self reliant sailing with myself or one other person and exploring, getting stuck capsized in the river, and figuring out how to problem solve with sailing as the mechanism for that learning'.... At age eight his family moved from Toms River to San Diego where the weather is nearly perfect year round."

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