Mike Hansen sought a master’s degree in sports science and seemed well on his way to a career in coaching or teaching when he got his first taste of being a roofing contractor.
It was 1985 and a major hail storm ravaged the communities in and around Lincoln, Neb. He and a friend, Steve Beigert, did very well that summer reroofing affected homes, and before long started their own roofing company, White Castle Roofing.