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21-05-2025
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'Thuggery': US women's rugby player suspended for Black Ferns test
United States women's rugby star Alev Kelter has been handed a three-match ban for stamping on the head of an opponent in a test match against Australia. Kelter, a three-time US Olympic representative in rugby sevens, was sent off in the 79th minute of the Pacific Four Series match on Saturday after the referee reviewed footage showing Kelter stamping forcefully on the head of Australia centre Georgie Friedrichs. In comments captured by television microphones, referee Aimee Barrett-Theron said Kelter would be getting a red card "because this is thuggery, it is deliberate and it is very dangerous foul play". Kelter appeared in front of a three-person panel at a disciplinary committee hearing on Tuesday and accepted she committed an act of foul play, World Rugby said in a statement. The committee accepted, however, evidence provided by Kelter that she did not intend to contact the head of Friedrichs. "The committee found that the player was not deliberately targeting the head of the Australian player," World Rugby said, "but rather was reckless in her actions (as she accepted). "The contact to the head was glancing or grazing rather than direct and targeted." The committee applied a six-match ban that was reduced to three matches because of mitigating circumstances, such as her disciplinary record, early acknowledgment of foul play and clear remorse. Kelter will be suspended for the test against New Zealand in the Pacific Four Series on Saturday, as well as two matches for US club Bay Breakers. Kelter won a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics last year. She previously played ice hockey and soccer for the University of Wisconsin.
ABC News
20-05-2025
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American rugby player Alev Kelter handed three-game ban for stamping on Wallaroo's head
United States centre Alev Kelter has been banned for three matches for her ugly head stomp on her Wallaroos opposite during Australia's Pacific Four win in Canberra. The former ice hockey and soccer player was sent off late in the Wallaroos' 27-19 win for an act which referee Aimee Barrett-Theron labelled "thuggery". A three-time Olympian who won bronze for the American sevens team in Paris last year, Kelter took a hit-up and then stamped repeatedly with her boot on Georgina Friedrichs's head as she was clinging to her other leg. On Tuesday, Kelter appeared before an independent disciplinary committee in New Zealand, where the US will face the Black Ferns in the next round. Kelter told the committee, chaired by Michael Heron KC (New Zealand) and former international players Becky Essex (England) and Ofisa Tonu'u (New Zealand), she accepted she had committed an act of foul play and that the referee's decision to award a red card was correct. The committee, however, accepted Kelter's evidence she did not intend to contact the head and her act was reckless rather than deliberate. The three-game ban rules her out of the last round of the Pacific Four and two club games with her Bay Breakers team back in the USA. AAP
20-05-2025
- Sport
US rugby star Alev Kelter gets 3-match ban for stamping on opponent's head
United States women's rugby star Alev Kelter was handed a three-match ban on Tuesday for stamping on the head of an opponent in a test match against Australia. Kelter, a three-time U.S. Olympic representative in rugby sevens, was sent off in the 79th minute of the Pacific Four Series match on Saturday after the referee reviewed footage showing Kelter stamping forcefully on the head of Australia center Georgie Friedrichs. In comments captured by television microphones, referee Aimee Barrett-Theron said Kelter would be getting a red card 'because this is thuggery, it is deliberate and it is very dangerous foul play.' Kelter appeared in front of a three-person panel at a disciplinary committee hearing on Tuesday and accepted she committed an act of foul play, World Rugby said in a statement. The committee accepted, however, evidence provided by Kelter that she did not intend to contact the head of Friedrichs. 'The committee found that the player was not deliberately targeting the head of the Australian player,' World Rugby said, 'but rather was reckless in her actions (as she accepted). 'The contact to the head was glancing or grazing rather than direct and targeted.' The committee applied a six-match ban that was reduced to three matches because of mitigating circumstances, such as her disciplinary record, early acknowledgment of foul play and clear remorse. Kelter will be suspended for the test against New Zealand in the Pacific Four Series on Saturday, as well as two matches for U.S. club Bay Breakers. Kelter won a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics last year. She previously played ice hockey and soccer for the University of Wisconsin. ___
Irish Independent
20-05-2025
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- Irish Independent
USA's Alev Kelter gets three-match ban for stamping on the head of Australia player
Kelter, a three-time US Olympic representative in rugby sevens, was sent off in the 79th minute of the Pacific Four Series match on Saturday after the referee reviewed footage showing Kelter stamping forcefully on the head of Australia center Georgie Friedrichs. In comments captured by television microphones, referee Aimee Barrett-Theron said Kelter would be getting a red card 'because this is thuggery, it is deliberate and it is very dangerous foul play'. Kelter appeared in front of a three-person panel at a disciplinary committee hearing on Tuesday and accepted she committed an act of foul play, World Rugby said in a statement. The committee accepted, however, evidence provided by Kelter that she did not intend to contact the head of Friedrichs. 'The committee found that the player was not deliberately targeting the head of the Australian player,' World Rugby said, 'but rather was reckless in her actions (as she accepted). 'The contact to the head was glancing or grazing rather than direct and targeted.' The committee applied a six-match ban that was reduced to three matches because of mitigating circumstances, such as her disciplinary record, early acknowledgment of foul play and clear remorse. Kelter will be suspended for the test against New Zealand in the Pacific Four Series on Saturday, as well as two matches for US club Bay Breakers. Kelter won a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics last year. She previously played ice hockey and soccer for the University of Wisconsin.
Fox Sports
20-05-2025
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- Fox Sports
US rugby star Alev Kelter gets 3-match ban for stamping on opponent's head
Associated Press United States women's rugby star Alev Kelter was handed a three-match ban on Tuesday for stamping on the head of an opponent in a test match against Australia. Kelter, a three-time U.S. Olympic representative in rugby sevens, was sent off in the 79th minute of the Pacific Four Series match on Saturday after the referee reviewed footage showing Kelter stamping forcefully on the head of Australia center Georgie Friedrichs. In comments captured by television microphones, referee Aimee Barrett-Theron said Kelter would be getting a red card 'because this is thuggery, it is deliberate and it is very dangerous foul play.' Kelter appeared in front of a three-person panel at a disciplinary committee hearing on Tuesday and accepted she committed an act of foul play, World Rugby said in a statement. The committee accepted, however, evidence provided by Kelter that she did not intend to contact the head of Friedrichs. 'The committee found that the player was not deliberately targeting the head of the Australian player,' World Rugby said, 'but rather was reckless in her actions (as she accepted). 'The contact to the head was glancing or grazing rather than direct and targeted.' The committee applied a six-match ban that was reduced to three matches because of mitigating circumstances, such as her disciplinary record, early acknowledgment of foul play and clear remorse. Kelter will be suspended for the test against New Zealand in the Pacific Four Series on Saturday, as well as two matches for U.S. club Bay Breakers. Kelter won a bronze medal at the Paris Olympics last year. She previously played ice hockey and soccer for the University of Wisconsin. ___ AP rugby:
