Born in Scottsdale, Arizona, Ty Ronning has lived all over North America. At age 2, the Ronning family moved to Nashville, Tennessee. His father Cliff played in the NHL from 1986 until 2004, spanning 3 decades and 7 different teams. Ty always looked up to his dad who was a member of the Vancouver Canucks team that lost the 1994 Stanley Cup Final to the New York Rangers. “I always looked up to him. He was my hero and I wanted to be just like him”.
Ronning considers Vancouver his home. After his father retired, they moved back to Vancouver where at age 7, young Ty started playing hockey in Burnaby for the Burnaby Winter Club, a source of amazing talents such as Mathew Barzal, Dante Fabbro, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Glenn Anderson, Paul Kariya and many more.