Union College Athletics

Annie DeLoid returns for her fourth season at the helm of the Union College women's volleyball team in 2025.

In her 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. Three players earned All-Liberty League honors for the second straight season, marking the first time since 2015 and 2016 with back-to-back years of at least three All-League performers, and junior Shannon McGrath earned the program's first All-LL first-team honor since 2016 with her third straight All-Conference selection.

DeLoid made an immediate impact in her first season as head coach, winning her first four matches of the year, more than doubling the team's win total from the previous season, and seeing marked improvement in all facets of the program. She helped guide the team to its first Liberty League Tournament appearance since 2016 and the team made its presence known, 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. First-year Shannon McGrath was named to the All-Liberty League second team following a season in which she earned four weekly conference awards, including the only rookie to be named conference Player of the Week.
 
DeLoid came to Schenectady following three years as the first full-time assistant women’s 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 semifinals in 2019. She also helped to coach the first AVCA All-American in program history. Shortly after her hire at Union, 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.
 
In addition to her full-time duties at Stevens, DeLoid also served as Recruiting Director of the DIGS Volleyball Club and coached the club’s 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 master’s in business administration from Averett in 2019.