Background
Dorsch was born in San Diego, California.
Dorsch was born in San Diego, California.
He attended Bozeman High School in Bozeman, Montana, and was a letterman in high school football, basketball, and track and field for the Bozeman Hawks.
He played college football for Purdue University, and was recognized as a consensus All-American. The Cincinnati Bengals picked him in the fourth round of the 2002 NFL Draft, and he played professionally for the Bengals and Green Bay Packers of the NFL, and the Rhein Fire of NFL Europa. He also played four years of American Legion baseball for the Bozeman Buckinghamshire as a starting first baseman and pitcher.
He holds several state records including the longest field goal in state history (fifth-longest in the national high school annals) at 63 yards.
While attending Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, Dorsch played for both the Purdue Boilermakers football team and the Boilermakers baseball team While playing for the Boilermakers football team from 1998 to 2001, Dorsch set many records including career scoring (355 points), career field goals (69), and career punting average (484).
He became the first Big Ten Conference athlete to be named as a first-team all-conference selection as both a punter and a placekicker. He was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American punter, having received first-team honors from the American Football Coaches Association, Associated Press, Walter Camp Foundation and CNNSI.
As a football player, Dorsch was drafted in the 4th round (111th overall pick) in the 2002 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals.
His only NFL experience came with the Bengals in 2002.
He had 5 punts, averaging just 32.4 as an injury replacement for starter Nick Harris. His Netto average of 1.8 yards per kick remains the lowest in NFL history (5 kick minimum). He spent 2005 and 2006 competing in NFL Europe as a punter for the Rhein Fire in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Dorsch is currently an assistant professor at Utah State University in Logan, Utah.
After retiring from football in 2006, he has focused his competitive energies on the sport of triathlon. He is one of the top ranked clydesdale triathletes in the United States, and has finished six Ironman triathlons (Cozumel, 2009.
Regensburg, 2010. Florida, 2011. Arizona, 2012.
Los Cabos, 2013. Coeur Doctorate"Alene, 2013).
Dorsch has published two scholarly articles: (1) Dorsch, T.E., Smith, A.L., & McDonough, M.H. (2009) "Parents" perceptions of child-to-parent socialization in organized youth sport", and (2) Witt, J.K. & Dorsch, T.E. (2009) "Kicking to bigger uprights: Field goal kicking performance influences perceived size".
Dorsch was a member of the 2004 Green Bay Packers playoff roster and was a practice squad member with the Minnesota Vikings in 2004.