Lane was born to a Jamaican father and a Filipino mother. She played basketball at Monroe Community College before transferring to Shaw University. Lane enrolled in the Team 3D Academy in 2016, and regularly wrestled for a number of different Florida-based independent promotions. Her first public match was a winning effort against Trish Adora for the Go Wrestle promotion in Daytona Beach in August 2016. Lane had a tryout at the WWE Performance Center in February 2017, after which she was offere