Pepperdine University Athletics

From the 2015 Hall of Fame program:

As a three-time All-American, a national champion and a U.S. Olympian, Tom Sorensen has made a considerable mark in the sport of volleyball.
 
Sorensen arrived at Pepperdine as a highly regarded volleyball player, as he came out of Racine-Case High School in Wisconsin as the nation’s No. 2 overall recruit, according to Volleyball Monthly.
 
He would spend a fruitful four seasons in Malibu, earning All-American honors every year between 1990 and 1993 (including three times on the first team) while leading the Waves to the 1992 NCAA title.
 
Volleyball Monthly named him the NCAA’s Freshman of the Year in 1990, and he also made the publication’s All-American third team. In 1991, he earned the first of three straight All-American first team awards from Volleyball Monthly and was a second team pick by the AVCA. He averaged 5.48 kills, sixth-best in the nation.
 
At the conclusion of his junior year, Sorensen pounded down 57 kills in two matches at the 1992 NCAA Championships, including 33 in a three-set sweep of Stanford in the final. Championship point came on a service ace by Sorensen, who would make the NCAA All-Tournament team as the Waves claimed their fourth NCAA title. For the season, he upped his average to 7.45 kills per game, second-best in the country.
 
He earned spots on both Volleyball Monthly and the AVCA’s All-American first teams after a senior season in which he averaged 6.92 kills (ranking fourth nationally).
 
Sorensen led the Waves in kills and service aces all four years. He set program records for career kills (2,207), service aces (155), blocks (464) and points (2,645.5). Each record has since been broken, but he still ranks No. 2 in kills, aces and points.
 
He set many Pepperdine single-season records during his junior campaign of 1992, including kills (723), aces (61) and points (851.0). Sorensen had a remarkable 53 kills in a match against UCLA on February 25, 1993. Many of these records are unlikely to ever be topped due to college volleyball now using rally scoring instead of sideout scoring.
 
Sorensen was a member of the 1996 U.S. Olympic squad that competed in Atlanta, and he was an alternate in 2000. His U.S. National Team career began in 1991 and continued through 2000, and he helped the U.S. to silver medals at the 1995 Pan American Games and 1993 NORCECA Zone Championship and a bronze medal at the 1994 World Championships. He was named the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Volleyball Player of the Year in 1997 and earned the National Team’s Coaches’ Award in 1993.
 
He played overseas in Italy in 1996-97 and Spain in 2001-02. Sorensen would also make appearances on the AVP Tour in 2001 and 2005.
 
In 2007, Sorensen was named to the All-MPSF 15th Anniversary second team. He was inducted into the Racine County Sports Hall of Fame in 2011.
 
Sorensen, who majored in marketing at Pepperdine, has recently moved into coaching volleyball and is in his first season working at Ottawa University (an NAIA school in Kansas), where he is an assistant with both the men’s and women’s teams.