When Jud Campbell, center, was recently inducted into the Georgia Aquatic Hall of Fame, he was joined at the ceremony by former Moss Farms Diving teammates, from left, Lane Bassham Winchester, Julia Hughes Tatum, Chad Sheldon and Camilla McLean Knowles.

MOULTRIE — Two Moultrie natives have made a big splash in aquatics. Both were honored in August with induction into the Georgia Aquatic Hall of Fame.

Tommie Lee Jackson Jr. and Jud Campbell are the inductees for the Class of 2020, which an article on Swim Swam said was delayed three years because of the coronavirus pandemic. Campbell is a former national diving champion while Jackson is a longtime coach.

Jackson graduated from William Bryant High School, Albany State and Georgia State. He competed for recreation teams in Moultrie in the 1960s before becoming a swimming and diving star for the Albany State Rams

After college, Jackson taught at multiple schools, from elementary to college level. Moving to Atlanta, he began coaching the Atlanta Dolphins. The annual Tommie L. Jackson Diversity Invitational was named for him. Thanks to his tutelage, his swimmers have set numerous records in their age groups and at the state and national levels. Jackson has coached swimmers who have competed at Olympics trials and he has also coached swimmers medaling at the Paralympics, including Curtis Lovejoy one of America’s most decorated Paralympians.

He was a United States Swimming National Team coach in 2009-10.

Jackson won numerous diversity honors, including the USA Swimming Diversity and Inclusion Award in 2019 and the Diversity in Aquatics Jim Ellis Award in 2020. In 2016, the Moultrie Observer reported Jackson was honored at the 30th annual Black History Invitational Swim Meet in Washington, D.C.

Campbell started diving at Moss Farms as an 8-year-old and went on to a coveted junior career competing for three internationally recognized coaches: Moose Moss, Jay Lerew and Wenbo Chen.

He then went to the University of Georgia, where he became a record-setter under coach Dan Laak.

The high point of his career came in August 2000 when he defeated future U.S. Olympic Team member Troy Dumais to take the 1-meter championship at the U.S. National Outdoor Championships held at Mission Viejo, Calif.

His career took off in 1992, when, as a 13-year-old, he was named to the Can-Am-Mex team and won a silver medal on the 3-meter springboard and a bronze on the 1-meter in Pasadena, Calif.

He also earned a silver medal in the Junior Olympic National Championships.

A year later, he was named to the National Team and competed at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre in London, England.

In 1994, he won a bronze medal in the Can-Am-Mex meet and was a high school All-American for the first time.

The next year he won two National YMCA championships, setting records on both the 1-meter and 3-meter springboards.

In 1996, he was the Georgia Male Junior Diver of the Year and finished fifth on 1-meter and 14th on platform at the U.S. National Championships.

In 1997, he won the YMCA National Championship on 1-meter and was runner-up on 3-meter; was a YMCA All-American; a Georgia high school champion; a high school All-American; a National Academic All-American; and was both the Junior and Senior Diver of the Year in Georgia.

Campbell agreed to dive collegiately for the University of Georgia and had an immediate impact.

And as a freshman, he took first place on the 1-meter board at the SEC Championships, giving Georgia its first SEC title since Billy Ray Schmidt won the last of his five championships in 1967.

He also was third on 3-meter and was sixth on platform at the SEC Championships.

Also that year, he placed fourth on 1-meter at the NCAA National Championships and was named All-American on 1-meter and honorable mention All-American on 3-meter and platform.

In 1999 he defended his SEC 1-meter championship in Lexington, Ky., setting a Georgia record with a score of 571.0.

During that season, be broke the Georgia dual record on 1-meter four times, was named All-SEC and was selected honorable mention All-American on 1-meter and platform.

In addition to winning his National Championship in 2000, he was named All-SEC and All-American. He was All-SEC again as a senior.

During his career, he was the Georgia Diver of the Year four times; an NCAA All-American nine times; an SEC champion three times; the SEC co-Diver of the Year in 2001 and was University of Georgia’s swimming and diving team MVP three times.

He also was a three-time Academic All-American.

After graduating from Georgia with a degree in management information systems, he earned a scholarship to and graduated from Pepperdine University’s law school. Though he passed the bar exam, Campbell is a lieutenant in the police department in San Diego, Calif., where he and his family live.