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Jeffrey Campbell (water polo)

American water polo player

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Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ6175890 ↗
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Jeffrey Guy "Jeff" Campbell (born October 2, 1962, in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American water polo player who competed for the University of California Irvine and won a team silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, in the Men's water polo tournament. He later participated in water polo at the 1992 Summer Olympics where the U.S. team placed fourth overall.

Campbell was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, and raised in Irvine, California where he played water polo for Irvine's University High School and received recognition as an All-Southern Section honoree.

University of California Irvine

In the years 1982, 1983, and 1985, Jeff was both an All-American and an All-Pacific Coast Athletic award honoree at the University of California Irvine under Head Coach Ted Newland. With his size and speed, according to his Olympic coach Bill Barnett, Campbell could play any position other than goalie, and likely worked as a utility player. While at Stanford, he helped lead the team to a national title in 1982, where the team went undefeated and Jeff played with his older brother, Peter Campbell, who was also a team mate at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Jeffrey was an NCAA Player of the Year and an NCAA tournament MVP in 1985, as well as a Pacific Coast Athletic Association Player of the year. In his last year on the team, he scored 79 goals for UCI, and was voted the Lauds and Laurels Outstanding Athlete of the year for 1985-6. He graduated with a degree in Economics in 1992.

Following his graduation at U. Cal Irvine, Campbell worked for a real estate firm as a research assistant, but had difficulty training for Olympic level conditioning and working full time.

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Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 1988, 1992, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-10-02. The account is most persuasive where Jeffrey, Campbell and water can be independently traced.
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