Douglas Earl Kent was born July 10, 1955 in La Junta, Colorado. He was an Eagle Scout and graduated high school in Aurora, Colorado in 1973.
He went on to earn a Bachelor of Science degree in sports medicine. (Friends did not know the university from which Mr. Kent received his degree.)In 1979 he moved from Denver to San Francisco to join his good friend, Earl Kirk, who had moved to the city the year before.