‘A people’s president:’ Brandon Sorensen elected as USUSA president for 2025-26
Taking off from Salt Lake Valley and arriving at Utah State in 2022, Brandon Sorensen has just soared through the 2025 USUSA election season and landed as the new 2025-26 student body president.
In what is being nicknamed the “SigEp Sweep,” Sorensen, alongside Executive VP-elect Max Alder and Student Advocate VP-elect Colin Hastings, was announced to be the new president on Feb. 26 in the TSC Hub. Thus, the 2025-26 Executive Leadership Board is made up entirely of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity brothers.
2023-24 USUSA President Abraham Rodriguez and current President Matt Richey are also both members of Sigma Phi Epsilon. All of the fraternity brothers, including 2023-24 Athletics and Campus Recreation Executive Director Tate Bennett, have affiliated themselves with fellow fraternity brother Zach Stewart, who after the elections announcement, posted it was “time to hang up the cleats.” Sorensen also took to social media in response, calling Zach the best campaign manager.
USUSA President Mathew Richey, left, shakes hands with newly elected President Brandon Sorensen in the TSC Hub on Feb. 26.
Sorensen is a junior double-majoring in marketing in the Jon M. Huntsman School of Business as well as public relations within the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He hopes to work in the airline world post-graduation.
“Both my parents work for Delta, but I just feel like I’m too social of a person to be in a cockpit my whole life. I love interacting with people and more of the way creative side,” Sorensen said.
Sorensen previously served as the Logan VP before deciding to campaign for president, which is where his campaign slogan “keeping soaring with Sorensen” came from. The Logan VP is a member of the Executive Council that works with campus safety and plans the Aggie Blue Leadership Conference.
JACK LEWIS BURTON Collin Hastings is announced as the USUSA Student Advocate Vice President in the TSC Hub on Feb. 26.
“Logan VP was very much administrative and behind the scenes, and it kind of had its challenges at times because I’d always come from very forward-facing or student-interacting committees, so it was hard to switch to maybe all the work that you’re doing isn’t going to be seen by students and going to have a direct impact, but it’s working with administration or working with my awesome committee” Sorensen said. ”I think the big thing is the connections that I’ve made. Administration here genuinely does want to work with student leaders, and it’s cool to be able to be walking around campus and to run into administration and know that you can go to them about concerns you have for students.”
Sorensen also explained he and many of the other USUSA officers have been surprised by what each position has to offer.
“Once you’re actually in the position, there is so much more to it that you don’t realize by reading the description,” Sorensen said.
When he is not working with USUSA or in class, the president-elect can be found at his favorite campus eatery the Forum Cafe, studying in Huntsman Hall or watching “La La Land” and cracking jokes with good friend and USUSA Student Events Director Ashlynn Smith.
After the election results announcement, Sorensen reflected on his favorite aspects of Utah State, including traditions like “dam Aggie” and the Luminary, as well as the legacy he hopes to leave here on campus.
“A people’s president was something I was going in with Logan VP. If I leave not having the most insane thing that we accomplished or that everyone remembers for years to come, I just hope they remember not even me but just that I wanted to be able to meet students and put all of my time and effort into the position and who I was as a person not needing the title at all but just who I was here,” Sorensen said.