Kennedy was born on December 19, 1984, at Long Beach Memorial Hospital.
Sean and Teri Kennedy are his parents. Kandice is Ian’s younger sister. Kennedy was born in Garden Grove, California, and lived there until he was 13 years old when his family relocated to Huntington Beach, California.
Kennedy was a Garden Grove Pony Baseball player from the age of 4.5 to 12 years old. Kennedy also played trip baseball from the age of ten to fourteen. From 1999 until 2003, Kennedy attended La Quinta High School in Westminster, California.
He subsequently attended USC until 2006, when he was taken in the first round by the Yankees.
