Tessa Dellarose

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Tessa Dellarose
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Dellarose with North Carolina in 2023
Personal information
Full name Tessa Elise Dellarose [1]
Date of birth (2004-04-02) April 2, 2004 (age 21) [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
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2022– North Carolina Tar Heels 73 (5)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2022–2024 Racing Louisville (USL W) 10 (2)
2025– Pittsburgh Riveters 6 (1)
International career‡
2023–2024 United States U-20 8 (1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of August 14, 2025
‡ National team caps and goals as of April 7, 2024

Tessa Elise 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.

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Early life

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]

College career

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] [6] 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. [7] 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] [8] 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. [9] [10] North Carolina defeated Wake Forest 1–0 in the final for the program's 23rd national title and first since 2012. [11]

During her college years, Dellarose played in the USL W League for Racing Louisville in 2022 and 2024 and joined the newly formed Pittsburgh Riveters in 2025. [2] [12] 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. [13]

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. [14] [15] She appeared in all five games at the 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, where the United States finished runners-up. [7]

Honors

North Carolina Tar Heels

Individual

References

  1. 1 2 "2023 Concacaf Women's Under-20 Championship – National team roster" (PDF). CONCACAF . Retrieved April 18, 2024.
  2. 1 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. 1 2 3 4 5 "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. 1 2 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. ↑ UNC Women's Soccer [@uncwomenssoccer] (August 2, 2023). "Holy smokes!" (Tweet). Retrieved April 22, 2024– via Twitter.
  7. 1 2 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.
  8. ↑ "2024 Women's Soccer Cumulative Statistics". North Carolina Tar Heels . Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Koh, Michael (November 29, 2024). "Golden Goal Sends UNC Women's Soccer Past Penn State into College Cup". Chapelboro.com . Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  11. ↑ Koh, Michael (December 9, 2024). "UNC Women's Soccer Beats Wake Forest to Win 23rd National Championship". Chapelboro.com . Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  12. ↑ "Racing sets inaugural USL W League roster with season nearing". Racing Louisville FC. May 4, 2022. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
    "Racing announces W League roster for 2024 season". Racing Louisville FC. April 30, 2024. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
  13. ↑ "Dellarose Named MVP, US Women Win TST 2024". North Carolina Tar Heels. June 11, 2024. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
  14. ↑ "U16 GNT heads to training camp in Florida". United States Soccer Federation. January 20, 2020. Retrieved May 13, 2024– via TopDrawerSoccer.
  15. ↑ "US U20 WNT Camp Roster – October". United States Soccer Federation. October 7, 2021. Retrieved May 13, 2024– via TopDrawerSoccer.
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