Avian Wares was born in Raleigh, North Carolina but spent most of his time growing up in Dumfries, Virginia. He graduated from Melissa High School in 2018 and went on to play soccer at Texas Lutheran University and major in Kinesiology. After a year and a half at TLU, he moved back to Melissa and
Michelle is from Midland, TX and graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Arts in Biology. She met her husband, Nat, while taking a Gross Anatomy class at the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in Lubbock. Upon graduation, she moved to Dallas to work in Rheumatology research at the University of Texas Southwestern