DE · USAV Chesapeake Region
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U Delaware is a volleyball club based in Newark, DE, ranked as high as #81 nationally by VolleyLens. It fields 2 teams in the 2025-26 season. VolleyLens has tracked the club from the 2025-26 season through 2025-26 across 4 team-seasons.
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Written from this club's match results and rankings, and updated whenever they are. Nothing here is estimated.
U Delaware is a club volleyball program based in Newark, DE, competing in the Chesapeake region. In 2025-26 it fielded 4 teams across both programs — two women's teams and two men's teams.
Its women's program ranks #81 nationally and #1 of 1 in DE for 2025-26, on a Club Score of 999. That places it in the Emerging tier, the band VolleyLens assigns from Club Score. Of its 2 teams, 1 rates Elite, meaning an Elo of 1700 or better.
Across the season its teams played 37 matches and won 21 of them, a 57% win rate. Its strongest team, U Delaware A, is #53 nationally and #1 in DE, at 1,731 Elo on a 17-6 record.
Teams averaged 19 matches each over the season. The club entered four events between 14 February and 2 April, a season of about 2 months. Of those, 1 was an Elite or Premier event — the strongest fields on the calendar.
Those events were held in four states, with three of four outside DE. Destinations included MD, MO and PA. Travel is described here in trips and destinations rather than cost, because event locations carry no distances.
Everything below — teams, statistics and rankings — is for this season and program. Pick another from Season History.
#81 nationally · Club Score 999
Every season and division VolleyLens has ranked for U Delaware. Pick one to focus this page on it.
| Season | Division | Rank | Club Score | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Women's | #81 | 999 | 2 |
| 2025-26 | Men's | #102 | 975 | 2 |
Every team U Delaware fielded in the 2025-26 season, with its age group, national rank and win-loss record. Elo rating measures strength from results: it rises faster for beating strong opponents than for beating weak ones, so a team that plays up is not punished for losing.
| Team | Program | Age | Elo | Record | Win% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U Delaware A | Women's | all | 1731 (Elite) | 17-6 | 74% |
| U Delaware B | Women's | all | 1320 (Emerging) | 4-10 | 29% |
Where U Delaware competed in the 2025-26 season: every tournament its teams played, the host city, how strong the event was, and what each team's record was there. It shows how far the club travels and the level of competition it takes on.
Elite, Premier, Competitive and Regional rate the strength of each event's field, from where it ranks nationally against every other tournament that season. An Elite event draws hundreds of teams from across the country; a Regional one is a local weekend.
| Tournament | Location | National Rank | Record | Teams |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 NCVF Championships (Elite) | Kansas City, MO | #1 of 134 | 4-3 | U Delaware A — Women's Division I: 4-3 |
| Steel City Showdown / U Pittsburgh-W (Regional) | Pittsburgh, PA | #46 of 134 | 6-5 | U Delaware B — Steel City Showdown / U Pittsburgh-W: 1-4; U Delaware A — Steel City Showdown / U Pittsburgh-W: 5-1 |
| ECVA Women's Central Divisional Championship / ECVA (Regional) | College Park, MD | #56 of 134 | 7-4 | U Delaware B — ECVA Women's Central Divisional Championship / ECVA: 2-3; U Delaware A — ECVA Women's Central Divisional Championship / ECVA: 5-1 |
| ECVA Women's Central Divisional Play Date / ECVA (Regional) | Newark, DE | #76 of 134 | 4-4 | U Delaware B — ECVA Women's Central Divisional Play Date / ECVA: 1-3; U Delaware A — ECVA Women's Central Divisional Play Date / ECVA: 3-1 |