Tessa Dellarose

Tessa Dellarose

Dellarose with North Carolina in 2023
Personal information
Full name	Tessa Elise Dellarose
Date of birth	(2004-04-02) April 2, 2004
Place of birth	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Height	5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Position(s)	Left back, defensive midfielder
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

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. Her father played college baseball at Duquesne. Dellarose was raised in Grindstone, Pennsylvania. 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. She committed to the University of North Carolina as a sophomore. She sat out her senior high school season to play with her Pittsburgh Riverhounds academy club and the youth national team. She played for Racing Louisville of the amateur USL W League in the summers of 2022 and 2024. 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.

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. 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. 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.

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

External links

• Tessa Dellarose at Soccerway
• Tessa Dellarose at the North Carolina Tar Heels
• Tessa Dellarose at U.S. Soccer