Back to the Colorado State Rams Newsfeed

CSU's Nate Ryken becomes the Barber of Lake Street

Zach Balside / CSU Athletics)

FORT COLLINS — He just wanted his hair to look good more often, and that's the irony of it all.

Nate Ryken asked for weekly haircuts when he was at Berthoud High School, and his mom noted how expensive that was, so for his 16th birthday, she gave him a pair of clippers as a gift.

"Before that I was playing around with some old clippers we had. So I started cutting my hair and thought I was doing all right," Ryken recalls. "Then I sat my little brother down; he didn't really have a choice.