Evan Burgmeier was born in 1989 in Baton Rouge, LA to parents Timothy and JoAnn. Growing up, Evan excelled in academics but devoted most of his time to playing sports. Evan played baseball and soccer competitively until college at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN, where he traded in his cleats for a red solo cup and a handle of cheap vodka, devoting his life to competitive partying and merely watching sports. After miraculously graduating from Indiana University with a degree in Sports Marketing & Management, Evan moved to Florida to live on the beach, drink bushwhackers and gripe about Indiana University basketball full-time