Biography
He was the fourth of six children born to Richard and Donna Bennett. His sports career began at age 5 when he first played T-ball. At age 8, his family moved to Amherst, New Hampshire, where he became an all-star pitcher on his 10-year old baseball team.
He moved back to Utah with his family in 1982, and was a member of the state champion cross country team in 1985-86 for Bonneville High School in Washington Terrace, Utah. He also was a region champion tennis player for Bonneville, earning the region title with partner Tom Gardner in 1987. Ryan was called to be a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1989, where he served in the Saint Louis Missouri Mission for two years. Ryan married Tonya in the Bountiful Utah Temple in 1998, after a four-year courtship. They had four children. Tonya remarried in 2007.
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