Tessa Dellarose
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File:UNC vs VT (Sep 2023) 080.jpg Dellarose with North Carolina in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tessa Elise Dellarose[1] | ||
| Date of birth | April 2, 2004[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 | 46 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2023–2024 | United States U-20 | 8 | (1) |
| ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of April 7, 2024 | |||
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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 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 as a substitute in her sophomore year, she returned to the starting lineup as a junior in 2024, being named to the All-ACC third team.[3][11]
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.[12][13] She appeared in all five games at the 2023 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship, where the United States finished runners-up.[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "2023 Concacaf Women's Under-20 Championship – National team roster" (PDF). CONCACAF. Retrieved April 18, 2024.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Tessa Dellarose". University of North Carolina Athletics. Retrieved April 22, 2024.
- ↑ Everett, Brad (August 21, 2019). "Brownsville's Tessa Dellarose to play for college soccer power". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Mueller, Chris (September 20, 2022). "Fitness, finesse earn Brownsville's Tessa Dellarose starting spot for North Carolina". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved May 13, 2024.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "Dellarose Named MVP, US Women Win TST 2024". North Carolina Tar Heels. June 11, 2024. Retrieved September 20, 2024.
- ↑ UNC Women's Soccer [@uncwomenssoccer] (August 2, 2023). "Holy smokes!" (Tweet). Retrieved April 22, 2024 – via Twitter.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 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.
- ↑ "2024 All-ACC Women's Soccer Awards Announced". Atlantic Coast Conference. November 6, 2024. Retrieved November 6, 2024.
- ↑ "U16 GNT heads to training camp in Florida". United States Soccer Federation. January 20, 2020. Retrieved May 13, 2024 – via TopDrawerSoccer.
- ↑ "US U20 WNT Camp Roster – October". United States Soccer Federation. October 7, 2021. Retrieved May 13, 2024 – via TopDrawerSoccer.
External links
- Tessa Dellarose at Soccerway
- Tessa Dellarose at the North Carolina Tar Heels
- Tessa Dellarose at U.S. Soccer
- Living people
- 2004 births
- Soccer players from Pennsylvania
- Sportspeople from Fayette County, Pennsylvania
- American women's soccer players
- Women's association football defenders
- Racing Louisville FC (USL W League) players
- United States women's youth international soccer players
- United States women's under-20 international soccer players
- North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer players
- 21st-century American sportswomen