Kolohe Andino

Kolohe Andino, born on March 22, 1994, is an American surfer and the son of the top-ranked surfer Dino Andino. He followed his father on surfing trips from a young age and was fielding sponsor offers by the age of eight. At fifteen, in 2009, he became the youngest winner of a National Scholastic Surfing Association title, and he holds the record for the most NSSA championships won by a male competitor, nine in all. His breakthrough came in 2011 when he won both the ASP 6-Star Quiksilver Brazil Open of Surfing and the Vans Pier Classic, and in January 2015 he won the first World Surf League event, the Surf City Pro in Huntington Beach, California. In 2019 he qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics, the first U.S. surfer ever to do so, and lost in the quarterfinal to Japan's Kanoa Igarashi. Ankle injuries in 2021 led to surgery, and he received a wildcard for the 2022 season, finishing twentieth. His first name means little rascal in Hawaiian.