 His sister Judith van Kampen is a star softball pitcher for the Dutch women's softball national team and was the first Dutch woman to play NCAA Division I softball, for the University of Nevada; they both will play for the Netherlands in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.Van Kampen pitched in the US for four years, for Treasure Valley Community College and Albertson College.In 2000, he was 4-1 with 2 saves and a 2.96 ERA for Albertson.