Put simply, Sorensen could put the ball into orbit.

"I was always kind of the big-leg guy," said Sorensen, who spent his childhood blasting goal kicks over everyone's heads.

In eighth grade, Sorensen - now a fullback on the Bingham boys' soccer team - realized that he could use his big leg in sports other than soccer. That's when he started playing football. Sorensen had two older brothers who were high school place kickers and he decided to follow in their footsteps. Instead of a goal, he started aiming at uprights.

If you follow Utah high school sports, you know the rest of the story.

Sorensen went on to become one of the best high school kickers in the nation. During the 2007 football season, he booted a 62-yard field goal - a state record. He also nailed several in the 50-plus range and has been rumored to have kicked 70-yard field goals in practice. Next year Sorensen will play for BYU.

"I think he's got the skills to be one of those people that you're watching on Sunday afternoons," said Bingham soccer coach Scott Maxfield.

Sorensen doesn't want to get ahead of himself.

"I dream about [the NFL]," the senior said as he lay on his stomach in the grass watching his teammates play Riverton in soccer Friday, "but I can't imagine it right now. I can't fathom college right now."

While football has earned Sorensen a scholarship to his dream school, soccer was his first love.

Despite his soccer roots, Sorensen, who has been sidelined with an ankle injury for much of the season, more closely resembles a football player than a soccer player. At 6-foot-1, 220 pounds, he looks more like a linebacker than a kicker.

"He's a phenomenal athlete," Maxfield said. "He squats 500 pounds. He benches 330."

Maxfield has never seen a kid kick the ball with such power and neither have a lot of other coaches.

While playing Dixie High School in a preseason match, an amused Maxfield watched the opposing coaches' jaws drop as Sorensen's goal kicks soared through the sky.

For a kicker/fullback, football and soccer have their similarities. But from a social standpoint, they are very different, Sorensen said.

"Soccer, for me anyway, is a lot more team-oriented," Sorensen said.

Football, he said, is a team-oriented sport for everyone but the kickers.

"We're kind of the lonely, outcast losers," he joked. "[Soccer is] a little more relaxed. It's not all on you."

In soccer, everyone's the same, Sorensen explained.

"The goalies are kind of the losers. They're not good enough with their feet so they get to use their hands," he said, before quickly adding, "Just kidding. I love our goalie."

Sorensen might be using his dry wit to help him get through his senior soccer season. It hasn't gone nearly as well as his senior football campaign.

Sorensen has been more of a cheerleader than a player this season as he has nursed a twisted ankle. However, he did see action in a recent game. It was a short-lived comeback.

After two minutes on the field, Sorensen promptly got a yellow card and "kind of re-hurt" his ankle. Suddenly, he was back on the sideline, which is probably where BYU coach Bronco Mendenhall would prefer he stays.

"He gets called for a lot of fouls because he's just a big body," Maxfield said. "When somebody hits him, he doesn't go down and they do."

Which is probably a good thing for a future college football player.