Union College Women's Volleyball

Annie DeLoid was named the head coach of the Union College womens volleyball team on April 25, 2022 and will enter her first season at the helm of the Dutchwomen in the fall of 2022. Shortly after her hire, DeLoid was recognized with the American Volleyball Coaches Association's prestigious Thirty Under 30 Award, recognizing some of the top young coaching talent in the country.   DeLoid comes to Schenectady following three years as the first full-time assistant womens volleyball coach at Stevens Institute of Technology. In two seasons of competition, she helped guide the Ducks to a combined 48-18 record and a pair of MAC Freedom Tournament championships, as well as a run to the NCAA Regional Finals in 2019. She also helped to coach the first AVCA All-American in program history.   In addition to her full-time duties at Stevens, DeLoid also served as Recruiting Director of the DIGS Volleyball Club and coached the clubs 17 Red team.   She previously spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Averett University in Danville, Virginia, helping the Cougars to a combined 48-19 record and a 2018 USA South East Division championship, while coaching a pair of Cougars to AVCA All-America honors and seven players to All-USA South recognition.   As an undergraduate, DeLoid was a four-year letterwinner on the volleyball court at Framingham State University from 2012-15. The Rams went a combined 98-39 and captured three MASCAC Tournament championships in her four seasons with the team, including recording 160 kills and 56 blocks in helping the Rams to a 25-9 record and a MASCAC Tournament title as a senior in 2015. She earned All-MASCAC second-team honors as a junior after finishing the season with 230 kills and 51 blocks, and for her career put down 658 kills on .221 hitting with 247 digs and 175 blocks.   A native of Plymouth, Mass., DeLoid graduated from Framingham State in 2016 with a degree in business administration, and also earned a masters in business administration from Averett in 2019.

Ben Rosenthal finished his fourth season as an assistant coach with the Union College women’s volleyball team in 2025. Rosenthal played a key role in the unit that was named the Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year in 2025 after guiding the Garnet Chargers to their best season in a decade, posting a 22-9 overall record and a 7-1 mark in Liberty League play. The team earned its first top-two conference regular-season finish since 2015, while its .875 conference winning percentage was the program's highest since regular-season conference play started in 2011. Three players earned All-Liberty League honors for the third year in a row and senior Shannon McGrath became the fifth player to earn back-to-back first-team honors, while the senior also earned AVCA All-Region first-team laurels and was named the seventh AVCA All-American in program history with an honorable mention. In his third season with the team, Union posted a 19-11 record and a 4-4 Liberty League record, the most wins both overall and in conference play since 2016. The team finished fourth in the Liberty League to earn its first home postseason match since 2008, doing so with a young roster that included only one senior and three juniors. Along with head coach Annie DeLoid, Rosenthal oversaw a team that showed marked improvement from the previous season in their first year, reaching the Liberty League Tournament for the first time since 2016 and becoming the first volleyball sixth seed to knock off a third seed (and just the second sixth seed to win against a third seed in any Liberty League sport) with a thrilling 3-2 win on the road at William Smith.   Rosenthal brings a wealth of experience at the high school, club and college level, most recently serving as the head varsity coach and program director at Schenectady High School since 2017. At the collegiate level, he spent five years as an assistant coach at Skidmore College from 2013-17 and also was the head coach of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute club volleyball program from 2006-16.   Rosenthal graduated from RPI with a degree in civil engineering in 1997. He received a master’s in civil engineering from RPI in 1999 and later earned a master’s in teaching from Empire State College in 2014.