Tessa Dellarose

Tessa Dellarose
Dellarose with North Carolina in 2023
Personal information
Full name Tessa Elise Dellarose[1]
Date of birth (2004-04-02) April 2, 2004 (age 20)[1]
Place of birth Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Height 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Position(s) Left back, defensive midfielder[2]
Team information
Current team
 North Carolina Tar Heels
Number 34
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2022– North Carolina Tar Heels 73 (5)
International career‡
2023–2024 United States U-20 8 (1)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of April 7, 2024

Tessa Dellarose (born April 2, 2004) is an American college soccer player who plays as a left back or defensive midfielder for the North Carolina Tar Heels. She won the 2024 national championship with the Tar Heels. She represented the United States at the under-20 level.

Early life and college career

Dellarose was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Melinda and Ron Dellarose, and has two older siblings.[3] Her father played college baseball at Duquesne.[3] Dellarose was raised in Grindstone, Pennsylvania.[3] She played three seasons of high school soccer at Brownsville High School, where she became captain and set a school record with 108 career goals.[3] She committed to the University of North Carolina as a sophomore.[4] She sat out her senior high school season to play with her Pittsburgh Riverhounds academy club and the youth national team.[5] She played for Racing Louisville of the amateur USL W League in the summers of 2022 and 2024.[6][7] She also represented the US Women–sponsored team in the Soccer Tournament 2024. She scored the winning goal in the final game and was named the tournament's most valuable player.[8]

North Carolina Tar Heels

On her first day of preseason training with the North Carolina Tar Heels in 2022, Dellarose set a team record in the beep test (multi-stage fitness test) by reaching level 57, a mark she surpassed the next year at 63.[5][9] She started almost every game of her freshman season, receiving All-ACC third team and ACC all-freshman honors, and helped North Carolina reach the national title game.[10] After being used mostly off the bench as a sophomore, she returned to the starting lineup in her junior season and played the second-most minutes of any field player for North Carolina in 2024. She scored four goals and added a team-joint-high seven assists, earning third-team All-ACC and fourth-team United Soccer Coaches All-American honors.[3][11] In the NCAA tournament, she scored the last-minute winner in a 1–0 victory against Santa Clara in the second round and assisted Kate Faasse's golden goal from a corner kick in a 2–1 win against Penn State in the quarterfinals.[12][13] North Carolina defeated Wake Forest 1–0 in the final for the program's 23rd national title and first since 2012.[14]

International career

Dellarose was called into training camp with the United States national under-16 team in 2020 and the under-20 team the following year.[15][16] She appeared in all five games at the 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, where the United States finished runners-up.[10]

Honors

North Carolina Tar Heels

Individual

  • Fourth-team United Soccer Coaches All-American: 2024
  • Third-team All-ACC: 2022, 2024
  • ACC all-freshman team: 2022

References

  1. ^ a b "2023 Concacaf Women's Under-20 Championship – National team roster" (PDF). CONCACAF. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
  2. ^ Santa, John (October 3, 2024). "Face of the franchise: Brownsville native, North Carolina standout Tessa Dellarose named first player in Pittsburgh Riveters history". Pittsburgh Union Progress. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d e "Tessa Dellarose". University of North Carolina Athletics. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
  4. ^ Everett, Brad (August 21, 2019). "Brownsville's Tessa Dellarose to play for college soccer power". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  5. ^ a b Mueller, Chris (September 20, 2022). "Fitness, finesse earn Brownsville's Tessa Dellarose starting spot for North Carolina". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  6. ^ "Racing sets inaugural USL W League roster with season nearing". Racing Louisville FC. May 4, 2022. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  7. ^ "Racing announces W League roster for 2024 season". Racing Louisville FC. April 30, 2024. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  8. ^ "Dellarose Named MVP, US Women Win TST 2024". North Carolina Tar Heels. June 11, 2024. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
  9. ^ UNC Women's Soccer [@uncwomenssoccer] (August 2, 2023). "Holy smokes!" (Tweet). Retrieved April 22, 2024 – via Twitter.
  10. ^ a b Santa, John (June 25, 2023). "Pittsburgh's next great soccer star? Brownsville graduate Tessa Dellarose making impact with North Carolina, United States U-20 Women's Youth National Team". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  11. ^ "2024 Women's Soccer Cumulative Statistics". North Carolina Tar Heels. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  12. ^ Koh, Michael (November 22, 2024). "Last-Minute Winner Sends UNC Women's Soccer Past Santa Clara in NCAA Tournament". Chapelboro.com. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  13. ^ Koh, Michael (November 29, 2024). "Golden Goal Sends UNC Women's Soccer Past Penn State into College Cup". Chapelboro.com. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  14. ^ Koh, Michael (December 9, 2024). "UNC Women's Soccer Beats Wake Forest to Win 23rd National Championship". Chapelboro.com. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  15. ^ "U16 GNT heads to training camp in Florida". United States Soccer Federation. January 20, 2020. Retrieved May 13, 2024 – via TopDrawerSoccer.
  16. ^ "US U20 WNT Camp Roster – October". United States Soccer Federation. October 7, 2021. Retrieved May 13, 2024 – via TopDrawerSoccer.
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