Sport Clips By Kierstin Gunsberg
R
ick Ohle is a team player. If his love of sports and how it balances stamina against mutual respect or his 43-year marriage to Nancy isn’t proof enough, then perhaps the fact that he couldn’t just sit around after retiring from a decade’s long career as a hospital administrator, including eight years as a Chief Operating Officer of a major downstate hospital is. Though working in healthcare had been meaningful, an attribute necessary to anything the Ohle’s choose to pursue, he was ready to venture down a less hectic path.
With he and Nancy’s four grown children scattered across the globe and raising families of their own, he took his time exploring post-retirement career options. His list of criteria was short but specific - this new career should be less stressful than being COO of an entire hospital, but still, make a positive impact in his community. In February of 2016, after months of culling his options, Rick opened his first Sport Clips Haircuts location in Traverse City’s Grand Traverse Crossing plaza. He believed in the company and its
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