Team AK is OK after the first weekend of competition at the Summer Olympics in Paris. JT Thor helped South Sudan make history in men’s basketball, Alev Kelter scored nine points in two victories for the U.S. women’s sevens rugby team and Sagen Maddalena advanced to...
The three-peat is complete for Alev Kelter. The multi-sport marvel from Eagle River earned a third straight trip to the Summer Olympics on Monday when she was named to the 12-woman roster for the U.S. women’s rugby sevens team. Here’s hoping the third time is the...
A late-game conversion against Brazil was enough to put Eagle River’s Alev Kelter over the top and into the 1,000-point club. Kelter added her name to the record book over the weekend at the World Rugby Sevens Series stop in Singapore, where she became the first...
Alev Kelter is our Alaska Athlete of the Week after a standout performance for Team USA at the World Rugby Sevens Series stop in Hong Kong. The Eagle River native proved she's still one of the best players in the world over the weekend, outscoring Fiji and France by...
After 11 years on the rugby field, Eagle River’s Alev Kelter is still one of the best players in the world. Just ask Fiji and France, two teams Kelter outscored by herself in the medal round over the weekend to help Team USA advance to the finals and take home a...
Eagle River’s Alev Kelter didn’t just lead her team to a Premier Rugby Sevens title, she outscored the other team by herself in the championship match. At age 32, she is showing no signs of slowing down as opponents struggle to keep up – even in a professional women's...
Alev Kelter was voted Alaska Athlete of the Week after a standout performance at the World Rugby Sevens Series. The two-time Olympian from Eagle River scored on a beautiful play in the fifth minute of a 31-0 victory over Poland to become just the second U.S. player to...
A novice on the rugby field in 2014, it didn't take long for Alev Kelter to master the sport. Today, the Eagle River native is American rugby royalty – a two-time Olympian, three-time World Cup veteran and former Pan Am Games silver medalist who on Saturday became...
Eagle River’s Alev Kelter and Anchorage’s Kathryn Treder have been named by USA women’s rugby to a pool of 42 players that will compete for a World Cup roster spot. The players will participate in pre-World Cup competitions, including the Pacific Four Series in June,...
After proving to be one of the best 7s rugby players in the world, Alev Kelter of Eagle River has moved on to 15s. And the result has pretty much been the same. The 30-year-old with Saracens of the Premier 15s carried her new team to a 30-19 victory over the Bristol...
Four years ago, Anchorage’s Rebecca Syrup walked on the Army-West Point women's rugby team having never played the sport. Today she’s a team captain, starting flanker and key cog on a Black Knights team that is one win away from playing for a national championship....