"Campbell seems like a solid coach at first glance, but being an athlete under him will kill your rowing career. He claims to be an exercise science major, but understands nothing about how the human body functions in training. He blames his athletes, but when the entire team is stagnating while doing his training plan that is obviously not the case. Myself and several other athletes made our own training plans and immediately saw better results. He also used extremely vulgar language(directed at multiple rowers including a female coxswain) in front of several teams at the IRA. He will also talk about athletes behind their backs and has overall created a toxic environment. I believe he is passionate about the sport but I would not recommend him to any athletes moving forward."

"A knowledgeable coach, yet lacks the ability to put effort into coaching anyone that is not in the first boat. Poor communicator and makes his athletes feel bad for not training while injured. "

"Kinda have mixed feelings about him. Don't disagree with some of the negative things said but Campbell does have some good moments that has helped me. Definitely plays favorites though which makes it frustrating when deciding who's in what boat. "

"Very disorganized. Does not communicate well with athlete's. Very poorly structured workout plan throughout the year causing athletes to be over worked and burnt out. Wants you to succeed but will talk about you negatively behind your back to other athletes causing them to belittle the negatively spoken athlete. Has great technical knowledge but doesn’t do much coaching on the water. Will listen to concerns and suggestions but doesn’t actually seem to care about them as coach campbell will rarely take them into effect. I understand that the coach shouldn’t need to take every concern or suggestion into action however if something is negatively affecting multiple athletes causing some of them to quit then something should be done differently to prevent that from happening moving forward. "

"I think Coach Campbell is a great coach to work with. Honestly, I’ve only seen overtraining happen due to athlete controlled factors such as lifting outside of recommended days/times as well as athlete nutrition. I took a star off motivation because specifically at the collegiate level, motivation increasingly must be intrinsic from an athlete. It’s not up to a coach to tell an athlete to do secondaries outside of practice. That being said he does encourage them. I think that that last point can become contentious between athlete and coach. Coach Campbell will not mince words if you have not improved the expected amount between seasons or tests. I think frustration stems from the athlete because perhaps they have issues with the training plan and them not improving as much as they would wish. If this happens, how can there be overtraining? However, Coach Campbell will more frequently than not be willing to sit down and talk in an effort to improve the team as a whole. No coach is perfect, but I think Coach Campbell does the best with the resources at hand. Side note, if an athlete is not with family over Easter break, he will offer to host them at his house and treat them to a meal."

"Not a great experience. Cursed us out and said some vulgar language at the IRA. Made me do workouts on injuries, had his favorites. He is very knowledgeable in the sport and teaches a great technique, but overall is a very disorganized, very disrespectful coach. He always tried to pressure kids who were injured into getting back on the boat or the water. Given the current state of the team, as well as who he is as a coach, I wouldn’t recommend. "

"Is very knowledgeable of the sport and is great at teaching technically. However, he is very disorganized and takes days to respond to potential recruits and even his own even his own athletes. Over works athletes a lot of the time. Releases information to the team extremely last minute and with the lack on communication it makes things more difficult. "