Andrew Campbell (sailor)


Andrew W. Campbell 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.

Sailing career

Campbell is the former Commodore of the Georgetown University Hoyas Sailing Team. At Georgetown, he led the #1 ranked Hoyas in the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association National Championships by achieving three singlehanded national championships, a second-place finish in the coed dinghy national championship in 2004 in Hood River, Oregon, and a first-place finish at the 2006 team race national championship 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.
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.