Tony Silvagni

Tony Silvagni began surfing in 1993 when his family moved down to Kure Beach, NC from Williamsport, Pennsylvania. His family fell in love with the beach and his dad brought his business, Island Tile Incorporated of installing ceramic, mosaic, and marble tile for homes on Pleasure Island. At age 5, Tony took up surfing by learning through his friend Cory Mullen. Within a few years, Tony and his older brother Andrew Silvagni began competing.

Andrew was the stand out longboarder on Pleasure Island. All the local surfers looked up to his surfing ability and began to progress with their surfing by learning through him. Ashley Silvagni, Tony’s sister has always enjoyed the beach and the surfing lifestyle. Tony’s mom, Barb Silvagni always filmed Andrew and Tony to help critique their surfing from an early age. Tony started out learning on a bodyboard with his dad John Silvagni.

He ended up making it to the regionals for the Eastern Surfing Association in Ocean City, Maryland for bodyboarding. Tony was competing in shortboard, longboard and bodyboard in all the local and regional events at an early age. By age 14, Tony won the Mid- Atlantic Regional Championships in his home town at Hamlet Avenue for Jr. Longboard, Jr. Shortboard, Open Shortboard all ages, Hottest Wave Award, and Tag Team Winner for SNC. Hamlet Avenue is now where Tony Silvagni runs his year round surf school, Tony Silvagni Surf School. He owns a small shop under the Hang Ten Grill in Carolina Beach on Atlanta Avenue. This is unique as he began competing on Hamlet Avenue and Tony went to elementary school on Atlanta Avenue at Carolina Beach Elementary School.

At age 28, Tony Silvagni is continuing to pursue his professional surfing career while furthering his business. He graduated from college at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington with a bachelor’s degree in business marketing at the Cameron School of Business. Tony recently traveled to Mexico, China, California and Puerto Rico. Tony just recently placed 9th overall in the world for professional longboard on the World Surfing League World Longboard Tour in Hainan, China.

He has been training for a month in Puerto Rico and is looking forward to a successful year competing around the globe. He plans on competing February 12-14th in Huanchaco, Peru in a Longboard Qualifying Series event. Tony continues to progress by having the best boards under his feet from Stewart Surfboards. He is currently riding the CMP model shaped by Bill Stewart that is 9’0″ by 22 5/8 wide by 2 5/8 thick. This is one of his favorite boards. Tony has one of the newest Tipster single fins that he enjoys riding in the smaller surf conditions. Meanwhile, in Tony’s down time he continues to work to meet his goals. He just launched the newest live surf cam at Hamlet Avenue, Carolina Beach for people to view the surf conditions daily at www.carolinabeachsurfcam.com

Tony would like to thank all of his friends, family, and sponsors Kulcha Shok Muzik, Hot Wax Surf Shop and Stewart Surfboards for all their love and support throughout the years. His main goal is to win the WSL World Longboard Title! Stay posted with all of his travels and upcoming surf contests in the near future.