‘Thuggery’: US celebrity slapped with ban for Wallaroo head stomp

United States centre Alev Kelter has been banned for 3 fits for her unpleasant head stomp on her Wallaroos reverse right through Australia’s Pacific Four win in Canberra.

The former ice hockey and football participant used to be despatched off past due within the Wallaroos’ 27-19 win, which referee Aimee Barrett-Theron labelled “thuggery”.

A 3-time Olympian, successful bronze for the American sevens workforce in Paris ultimate 12 months, Kelter took a hit-up after which stamped time and again together with her boot on Georgina Friedrichs’ head, who used to be clinging to her different leg.

Kelter gave the impression prior to an unbiased disciplinary committee on Tuesday in New Zealand, the place america will face the Black Ferns within the subsequent spherical.

Chaired via Michael Heron KC (New Zealand) and previous world gamers Becky Essex (England) and Ofisa Tonu’u (New Zealand), Kelter accredited she had dedicated an act of foul play and the referee’s choice to award a pink card used to be right kind.

The committee, on the other hand, accredited Kelter’s proof she didn’t intend to touch the pinnacle and her act used to be reckless quite than planned.

The three-game ban regulations her out of the ultimate spherical of the Pacific Four and two membership video games together with her Bay Breakers workforce again in the United States.