Delaney Dilfer

Class:
Junior
Height:
5-9
Hometown:
Austin, Texas
Position:
S
Previous School:
Vandegrift HS (Lipscomb)

2022 (Jr.)

• ASUN Setter of the Year

• ASUN All-Conference first team

• ASUN All-Tournament Team

• Two-time ASUN Setter of the Week (Sept. 6, Oct. 24), the first player in conference history to be name ASUN Freshman of the Week, Player of the Week and Setter of the Week in a career

• VaSID All-State first team
• ASUN Presidential Honor Roll

• Started all 32 matches, appearing in all of Liberty’s 123 sets

• Totaled 1,371 assists (11.15 aps), 48 aces (0.39 aps), 328 digs (2.67 dps) and 51 blocks (0.41 bps)

• Led Liberty to a .243 team hitting percentage after hitting .173 as a team in 2021

• Ranked third in the nation with a program 25-point rally-scoring record 1,371 assists

• Led the ASUN with 48 aces, the fourth most in a single season in the program’s rally-scoring history

• Recorded 20 40-assist matches, nine 50-assist contests and her 17 double-doubles were the most by a Lady Flame in a single season since 2007

• Registered 52 assists and 10 digs against Winthrop (Sept. 2)

• Posted a career-high five blocks against Murray State (Sept. 3)

• Contributed 53 assists and five aces on Sept. 9 at UC San Diego, the first Lady Flame in the rally-scoring era with 50 assists and five aces in the same match

• Collected a career-high 18 digs against New Mexico (Sept. 10), tying that mark in the ASUN semifinal at Lipscomb (Nov. 18)

• Turned in four straight double-doubles, from Sept. 25 through Oct. 7

• Recorded three straight 50-assist matches, culminating in a career-high and Liberty Arena-record 58 assists in a four-set win over Jacksonville (Oct. 14)

• Dished out 51 assists and added four aces at North Alabama (Nov. 4), one of four times this season that she had 50 or more assists in a four-set match

• Tied her career high with 58 assists in ASUN quarterfinal against Stetson (Nov. 17), adding 17 digs

• Registered 52 assists and 18 digs in ASUN semifinal at Lipscomb

• Totaled 51 assists in for-set setback to Western Carolina in NIVC first round (Dec. 3)

Previous School

• Starting setter for Lipscomb in both spring and fall 2021 seasons as a freshman and sophomore

• Transferred to Liberty during 2022 spring semester, competed for the Lady Flames in the spring season

• 2021 AVCA All-South Region (Spring season)

• 2021 AVCA South Region Freshman of the Year (Spring season)

• 2021 ASUN All-Conference second team (Spring season)

• 2021 ASUN All-Freshman Team (Spring season)

• 2021 ASUN Freshman of the Year (Spring season)

• 2021 ASUN All-Tournament Team, helping Lipscomb to a 17-3 record and its first ASUN title since 2016

• Named ASUN Player of the Week on Oct. 11, 2021

• Two-time ASUN Freshman of the Week (Jan. 26 and Feb. 2, 2021)

• Two-time ASUN Honor Roll

• Averaged over 10 assists per set in each of her first two seasons of college volleyball

• Dished out a career-high 53 assists on Apri1 2, 2021 versus North Florida and against Houston on Aug. 27, 2021

• Served up career-high five aces against Jacksonville State on Nov. 14, 2021

Prep

• Graduated from Vandegrift High School

• Helped team to a school-record 40 wins as a sophomore

• Totaled 1,410 assists, 329 digs, 100 kills and 54 aces as a senior

• Three-time All-State

• Three-team All-Region and All-District

• Four-year letterwinner, holds the career and single-season assists record for her high school

• Four-time Academic All-District

• Helped her club team – Austin Skyline – to a Regional Championship in 2019

Personal

• Daughter of Trent and Cassandra Dilfer

• Father, Trent Dilfer, played football at Fresno State before spending 14 years in the NFL, winning Super Bowl XXXV as the starting quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens

• Mother, Cassandra Dilfer, was a collegiate swimmer at Fresno State

• Sister, Tori, was two-time ACC Setter of the Year and a 2021 AVCA first team All-American setter at Louisville, leading her team to the 2021 NCAA Division I Volleyball Final Four before now playing professionally

• Sister, Maddie, played volleyball at Notre Dame before transferring to Pepperdine, where she played both indoor and beach volleyball
• Finace Zak Burnett plays football at Liberty

• Graduated with Bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies, currently pursuing a Master's degree in applied ministry; would like to have a career in coaching an ministry

• Birthday is July 11