NFF National Scholar-Athletes
The Dartmouth team leader in total tackles in 1987 (120) and 1988 (124), linebacker Paul Sorensen ranks 13th in school history in career tackles (260). He was a part of the Big Green defensive unit that didn’t allow a single passing yard or completion in a 49-7 win vs. Penn in 1987. The two-time First Team Academic All-American was named the 1988 Academic All-American of the Year. Boasting a perfect 4.0 GPA in computer science, Sorensen was awarded six academic citations and the Phi Beta Kappa prize for highest academic standing. A member of the Advisory Committee to the Dean, he spent three summers in college as an intern for Apple. Sorensen earned his master’s and Ph.D. in geography from the University of California Santa Barbara while working as a research assistant and is currently a senior software manager at Cambridge Systematics, a provider of management and planning consulting services and information systems to the public and private transportation industries. He also serves as the associate director of the Transportation, Space and Technology Program at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision-making through research and analysis. Sorenson also holds a master’s in urban planning from UCLA.
