Lacy Schneemann grew up in San Angelo, Texas, and started playing pickleball in 2015 with her father. She got fully into pickleball in 2021 and credits her time as a tennis player to her pickleball success. While studying at USC, she played on the club tennis team and was captain for two years. 

Lacy used to work for Boeing as an aerospace engineer in Los Angeles, but quit her job to focus on competing in professional pickleball full-time.