{{short description|American professional surfer and TV personality}} {{Infobox person | name = Cheyne Anders Magnusson | image = | caption = | birth_date = July 14, 1983 | birth_place = Southern California, United States | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Professional surfer, businessman and reality television celebrity | spouse = | children = | website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20070112125728/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/maui_fever/series.jhtml?#/ontv/dyn/maui_fever/cast_member/bio.jhtml?personalityId=8493 Cheyne's profile on MTV.com] }} '''Cheyne Anders Magnusson''' (born July 14, 1983<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.instagram.com/p/s00O7rNVPs/ | title=Cheyne Magnusson on Instagram: "#TBT International puppy with a passport. 🇯🇵🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷🇮🇹" }}</ref>) is a professional surfer and one of the stars of MTV's reality show ''Maui Fever''. He has worked as wave DJ at surf parks and is involved in a new venture in Palm Springs.
==Early life== Magnusson was born in Southern California and moved to Maui with his family at the age of seven.<ref>{{cite news|last=Cerizo |first=Kehaulani |title=MTV shocked by response to show |publisher=The Maui News |date=2007-02-04 |url=http://www.mauinews.com/story.aspx?id=27380 |accessdate=2007-03-28 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070311150036/http://www.mauinews.com/story.aspx?id=27380 |archivedate=2007-03-11 |url-status=dead }}</ref> His father, Tony Magnusson, was a professional skateboarder and co-founded the Osiris Shoes company.<ref name=MTV>{{cite web | title =Cheyne Magnusson | website =MTV | year =2006 | url =http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/maui_fever/series.jhtml#/ontv/dyn/maui_fever/cast_member/bio.jhtml?personalityId=8493 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20070112125728/http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/maui_fever/series.jhtml?#/ontv/dyn/maui_fever/cast_member/bio.jhtml?personalityId=8493 | url-status =dead | archive-date =January 12, 2007 | accessdate =2007-03-28}}</ref> According to Cheyne's mother Jill, "Cheyne could ride a skateboard before he could walk."<ref name=Maui>{{cite news | last =Sweedler | first =Dave | title =Cheyne Magnusson: Hawaii State Champion | pages =Volume 3, Issue 25 | publisher =Maui Time Magazine | date =2000-05-23 | url =http://archive.mauitime.com/v03iss25/surfspt.html | accessdate =2007-03-28 | url-status =dead | archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20070928075539/http://archive.mauitime.com/v03iss25/surfspt.html | archivedate =2007-09-28 }}</ref> <!-- Deleted image removed: [[File:2005 Lords of Dogtown.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Stephanie Limb, Don Nguyen, and Cheyne Magnusson in ''Lords of Dogtown'']] -->
==Career== ===Professional surfing=== 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.<ref name=Maui/> By the age of twenty-two, Cheyne was surfing professionally and was sponsored by Body Glove, Osiris Shoes, Dragon, and Chemistry Surfboards.<ref>{{cite news |last=Press Release |title=Body Glove Signs Cheyne Magnusson |publisher=Transworld Surf |date=2006-01-18 |url=http://www.transworldsurf.com/surf/pressrelease/article/0,19929,1150037,00.html |accessdate=2007-03-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928153815/http://www.transworldsurf.com/surf/pressrelease/article/0%2C19929%2C1150037%2C00.html |archivedate=September 28, 2007 }}</ref>
== Business == He is a primary backer of under construction the Palm Springs Surf Club.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Guilhem|first=Matt|date=December 26, 2020|title=Some See Desert As Next Surfing Hotspot|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/12/26/947624242/some-see-desert-as-next-surfing-hotspot|access-date=2020-12-26|work=NPR News|language=en}}</ref>
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