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.

[4] She sat out her senior high school season to play with her Pittsburgh Riverhounds academy club and the youth national team.

[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.