Cheyne Magnusson

Cheyne Magnusson
Born	c.1984 Southern California, United States
Occupation	Professional surfer and reality television celebrity
Website	Cheyne's profile on MTV.com

Cheyne Magnusson is a professional surfer and one of the stars of MTV's reality show Maui Fever.

Magnusson was born in Southern California and moved to Hawaii with his family at the age of seven. His father, Tony Magnusson, was a professional skateboarder and co-founded the Osiris Shoes company. According to Cheyne's mother Jill, "Cheyne could ride a skateboard before he could walk."

At the age of sixteen, Magnusson was the 2000 Men's Hawaiian State Champion in surfing. In June of that year, he then represented the state of Hawaii in United States at the world championships—the highest honor an amateur surfer can receive. By the age of twenty-two, Cheyne was surfing professionally and was sponsored by Body Glove, Osiris Shoes, Dragon, and Chemistry Surfboards.

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