Trace Young: Creation, life, basketball (in that order)

Guard Trace Young (0) and the Colorado State University men’s basketball team celebrate a 3-pointer scored at the University of Colorado Boulder away game Dec. 8, 2022.“Okay, here’s the vision,” said Trace Young, Colorado State University men’s basketball guard, about his newest idea for a short video. “The theme would be like kind of going against the grain, you know what I’m saying? Like living differently than other people.”

As this is the case for Young, he would be the first to tell you: It’s not all about basketball.

Sure, it took years of late nights and sacrifice on the court to get into an NCAA Tournament-qualifying Division I program as a basketball player. But Young puts the…