Eagle River’s Derya Kelter of the University of Wisconsin is spending the summer in Madison, playing for the hometown 56ers of the Women’s Premier Soccer League. The league is made up of current and former college players as well as former professionals. Kelter, of Chugiak High fame, is entering her junior season as a midfielder… Read more »
Eagle River’s Alev Kelter helped make sure the University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team remained No. 1. Kelter assisted on the tying goal late in the third period to propel the Badgers into overtime, where they prevailed 5-4 over the University of Minnesota in the WCHA’s Final Faceoff Saturday night. Wisconsin forced OT after Meghan… Read more »
Just a couple years ago, Alev Kelter was one of the toughest and roughest high school soccer players in Alaska. The Chugiak High star was the ultimate two-way player, strong enough to hold off defenders and tough enough to deny offensive players. The term 50-50 ball didn’t apply to her because it was like 90-10… Read more »
Eagle River’s Alev Kelter and the Wisconsin women’s soccer team is off to its best start in the Big Ten in nearly a decade. She is part of a balanced Badger attack that has seen seven different players net goals. But Kelter is one of only two players with two goals. The midfielder has started… Read more »
She didn’t set out to be a goalkeeper, but when Lara Campbell of Anchorage was 12 years old nobody else wanted to play the position. “I kind of got thrown in one game and I ended up liking it,” she told me. “From there, I went to a bunch of camps and trained with older… Read more »
After dropping out of the NCAA Division I women’s soccer top 25 last week, the University of Southern California bounced back tonight with a 1-0 win over TCU. And although Anchorage’s Carly Butcher didn’t score, she got pretty close. Butcher, a starting midfielder, fired two shots on goal, including a rocket that was tipped over… Read more »
As many as seven Alaska women will be shooting for the ultimate prize in college soccer when the national championships begin Friday. Leading the way is University of Denver goalkeeper Lara Campbell of Anchorage. She is a major reason why the 17-5-1 Pioneers won the Sun Belt Conference title. Denver plays No. 2 seed Portland… Read more »
