A Quinnipiac alumnus, Delaney played minor league baseball in the Milwaukee Brewers system before starting his coaching career.
[1] Delaney attended Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts, where he won a state baseball championship in 2004.
He spent 2008 and 2009 in Milwaukee's minor league system, advancing as high as Class-A Wisconsin.
Delaney spent 2012 as an assistant at Hartford under first-year head coach Justin Blood.
[5][6][7] In 2015, Delaney's first season as head coach, Quinnipiac made its second straight playoff appearance with a 15–9, third-place showing in the MAAC.