Andrew McDonald

Andrew John "Drew" McDonald (born October 19, 1955) is a former water polo player who won a silver medal for the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. A U.S. Hall of Fame member, he has coached basketball, served as an advisor to the US Olympic Committee, and was a United States Water Polo Foundation Director beginning in 1985. In his professional career, after graduating Stanford with a Masters in Industrial engineering, he founded his own company McDonald Capital Investments. In his early years, his family relocated to Orinda, California. He attended Orinda's Miramonte High School, where for three years, he earned High School All-League honors in water polo, and was a two-year High School All American. McDonald helped lead the Stanford water polo team to their inaugural 1976 NCAA title, an important event in Stanford sport's history. In the 1975 and 1976 Stanford seasons, he was named an All-American. During his college years, he met his first wife Kim Peyton McDonald, an Olympic gold medalist from the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, though the couple later divorced. The teams from Yugoslavia, Italy, the Soviet Union, Hungary and Spain were the pre-Olympic favorites to medal in water polo. Responding to the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics, the teams from Hungary and Russia did not attend in 1984. The U.S. and Yugoslavia won their first three matches, and met in the final game to determine who would take the gold and silver medals. Going into the third quarter of play, the U.S. team held a late 5–2 advantage over Yugoslavia, but were unable to make another goal, and Yugoslavia tied the score 5–5 with three unanswered goals, and were chosen the winners on score differential. Yugoslavia took the gold, West Germany the Bronze and Spain placed fourth. He has worked as an assistant coach for the boys basketball team at Campolindo High School in Moraga, California.

Olympic committee work For four years, McDonald served on the Athletes Advisory Council to the US Olympic Committee, and served as the United States Water Polo Foundation Director after 1985, with some focus on investment strategies.