Bio
Andy Baldwin is a US Naval Officer, ironman triathlete, humanitarian and physician best known to television audiences as the bachelor of the 10th season of the reality dating show The Bachelor, dubbed The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman.
Raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and named ESPN's National Scholar Athlete of the Year when he graduated from high school as his class valedictorian in 1995, Baldwin is a 30-year-old undersea medical officer for a special operations dive unit stationed in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Baldwin grew up in a family modest means and, after working three jobs and saving $25,000 for college before graduating high school, attended Duke University on a full ROTC scholarship.
After graduating from Duke with honours and earning a varsity letter on the school's swim team, he attended the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine and was a surgical intern at Naval Hospital San Diego.
Baldwin competed in his first triathlon in 2000 and immediately fell in love with the sport. He has since competed internationally in numerous Ironman, Half-Ironman and other triathlons and marathons, and frequently finished them among the top 5 finishers in his age group.
In 2006 he served as group surgeon for a team of 50 military personnel tasked with traveling to Laos to treat villagers in need of medical attention.