A Super Dream Comes True

A Super Dream Comes True

PURSUITS

ISABEL PANTLE ’23

Eagles’ data analyst earns a Super Bowl ring.

Celebrating with scores of Philadelphia Eagles players, coaches, and staff in a cloudburst of confetti on the field of the Superdome after Super Bowl LIX ended in February, Pantie was proud to be a part of the Eagles’ 40-22 dismantling of the Kansas City Chiefs.

Pantie, who grew up loving football and math, has immersed herself in a job that merges her two passions: She is a quantitative analyst for the Eagles, a numbers guru who helps make sense of the nearly infinite data points available to her employer. She and her colleagues provide data-driven recommendations to help the team’s coaches and general manager make decisions.

A football fanatic from Baltimore, Pantie chose Dartmouth in part because it offered a sports analytics course, cotaught by quantitative social science prof Michael Herron and President Emeritus and math prof Phil Hanlon ’77. “Isabel possesses a great combination of engagement and technical skills, and she’s very conscientious,” says Herron. “If I were running a professional sports team, she is the sort of person I’d want to have around.”

Pantie, who double-majored in math and quantitative social science, interned as a student with her hometown Baltimore Ravens, which confirmed her determination to work in the NFL. She began working for the Eagles right after graduation.

FaceTime-ing with her family from the field as the Eagles accepted the Lombardi Trophy was an unforgettable experience, she says. “It’s a dream come true to work in the league and be part of a Super Bowl-winning team. And dream is the word.” When she woke up the next morning, she checked her phonejust to make sure it hadn’t all been just a dream.

James Bressor