A voicemail drew former hockey and soccer standout Alev Kelter to the Rugby World Cup Sevens

Alev Kelter didn't make the 2014 Olympic ice hockey team. She was disappointed, but she decided to focus on her soccer and rugby career. Ric Suggitt, the late head coach of the USA Women's Sevens Olympic team, asked her to come play rugby for Team USA. Two years later, Alev made her Olympics debut for USA in the inaugural edition of rugby sevens in Rio. A Lev is a member of Team Wisconsin Badgers soccer team and Team Alaska. Her mother would be OK with her playing rugby. The team plays 7-minute halves instead of 40-minutes.

Alev Kelter was selected for the Rugby World Cup Sevens. She played basketball, ice hockey, soccer, baseball, volleyball and swam as a child. In high school, she decided to focus on ice and soccer and she made the Olympic team.

Alev and Derya Kelters were always playing sports together. They were each other's confidantes and held each others accountable. Alev tried out for the Olympic development program in soccer and made the national Under-14 hockey team at 14. She received division one scholarship offers from the University of Wisconsin for both ice hockey and soccer. Drya received a full scholarship to play soccer at Wisconsin. A lev wanted to be an artist like her grandmother. Art and sport are similar in her mind. "Sport is performance art, you can create, work off of space. Each game is a canvas on which you draw, create and collaborate with your teammates."