Kevin Wallis

About Kevin

• He grew up over an hour away from the beach, but all he wanted to do when he grew up was live at the beach.
• As he went to school at Claremont McKenna University, he decided he wanted to be a lifeguard.
• As he got more into lifeguarding, surf forecasting kept tugging at him; he always wanted to know more about it.
• Got his degree in psychology, which he doesn’t use directly, but he says the writing and communication skills still help him.
• Says that truthfully, many nights he should’ve spent studying, he was up late looking at wave science and forecasts.
• When he started at Surfline, he made next to no money; says if you love something, you should be willing to work for cheap.
• He worked weekends, holidays, crazy hours, but he stuck with it because he loved it—and he could still surf in his free time.
• Seventeen years later, he says if he could tell his teenage self what his future job would be, young him would be “stoked!”