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.
