Andrew Campbell (sailor)

Andrew W. Campbell (born 3 February 1984 in Toms River, New Jersey) is an American yachtsman.

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] Campbell is the latest in a long lineage of sailing greats from 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 La Jolla.

In the Snipe class, he was the 2001 District 6 Junior Champion. In the Star class he won the silver medal in the 2013 World Championship and the 2010 European Championship.

College

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 (2003, 2005 and 2006), 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,^[2] and College Sailor of the Year in 2006.

Sports Illustrated placed him 10th on their list of Georgetown's Top 10 All-Time Athletes.^[3]

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

He is the Flight Controller for American Magic, the New York Yacht Club entry at the 2021 America's Cup.^[4]

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

^ 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."
^ GUHoyas
^ "Andrew Campbell - Sailing (2003-2006) - Georgetown's Top 10 All-Time Athletes - Photos - SI.com". Archived from the original on 2012-11-03. Retrieved 2011-01-26.
^ American Magic Team