Delaney Rose

Biography

UAB Director of Athletics Mark Ingram named Delaney Rose as the head coach of the Blazers beach volleyball program on Aug. 17, 2023. Rose spent two seasons as head coach and three seasons overall at UAB. Rose guided the Blazers to the most successful stretch in program history, highlighted by a record-setting 2026 season in which UAB went 26-11 overall and a perfect 5-0 in Conference USA play. The 26 wins marked a program record and the first undefeated conference season in school history. Under Rose’s direction, UAB earned its first AVCA All-Americans in program history as Jasmine Haas and Olivia Stant were named second team in 2026. The duo set multiple program records, including single-season wins (29), wins as a pair (29) and Court 1 victories (29) . Haas finished her career as UAB’s all-time wins leader (96), while Stant ranked second with 83 career victories . In 2025, Rose led UAB to a then-program-record 21 wins and continued the program’s upward trajectory . Haas and Stant recorded 26 wins as a pair, setting the program’s single-season record at the time . Rose, a 2024 recipient of the AVCA Thirty Under 30, guided the Blazers to a school-record 19 wins in her first season as head coach (2023-24). She helped senior Arden Copping become the winningest player in program history at the time (70 career victories), while Copping and Haas set a school record with 21 Court 1 wins. Additionally, the beach volleyball program had the highest collective GPA of any team at UAB du