Colin McPhillips

Colin Patrick McPhillips, known as Col, was born on April 18, 1975, in Santa Monica, California, and is an American professional longboard surfer and three-time ASP Longboard World Champion. Raised in San Clemente, where his parents taught him to surf at five, he started on shortboards, finishing fourth in the 1992 United States Surfing Championship, and won the NSSA National longboard championship for San Clemente High School in 1992 and 1993. He won the US Open of Longboarding in 1994 and again in 2007, took his first ASP World Tour title in October 1999 at One Mile Point, Australia, and won back to back world titles at J-Bay in 2001 and at Cabo San Lucas in 2002. He designs longboards and paddle boards for Hobie and appears in surf documentaries.