She should be enheartened by the experiences of a player by the name of Chastain, she fell completely off the national team pool and the revitalized herself by a switch of position. If a forward can become a quality defender then a player with Bivens' already proven versatility should stay in the pool and even earn a spot. However that very versatility could play against her since April has shown a marked lack of imagination in her selections to the squad. Edit to add: I would pick her over: Fair, Pearce, Roberts, Hawkins, Hucles, Benson, Bryan, and Tarpley I believe that she is better at each position that any of the listed players and she can easily switch position, if needed, to cover injury.
I wholeheartedly agree. If April would just put her on the backline though, she would find out just how tought a defender Kylie is. Great article about Kylie. And Kylie will make this team some day soon.
One more thing: Although she has not been playing the position in either club or on the national side I noticed this last year that when needed, caused by rotation or missed tackles, she played central very well. She showed particularly well at covering Nonan when she lost concentration, almost like the Australian walkabouts that tennis star Evon G. (Can't spell the name) used to have during matches. I would LOVE to see how she would do along side of Brandi in the center. I bet she would not get beat as often as the other central defenders do and I believe her service would be more accurate. Also her speed would make up for a general lack of speed on the national side in the center. Brandi is slowing as she ages but al she needs is a speedy, strong defender alongside of her to allow her attributes to really shine. But, again, I do not think that April sees the big picture and I believe that she would never try a move like that, unless forced by injuries or something equally as drastic. I believe that the US side has the talent to play a form of "Total Soccer" with fluid transformations of both position and formation but April seems to want to pigeonhole each player and Kylie does not pigeonhole well. OK: That was a long "One more thing."
One more thing. April always wants to have the taller players and I certainly can understand that desire. Kylie is 5'5'' but if you look at her verticle leap, you will see that she gets as high as the taller players. Next time you see her in the box to go up for a header, just watch and see how high she gets. She could play any position on the backline including the left side. You are right that April does try to pigeon hole players and the fact that Kylie plays anywhere sometimes works against her and that is a shame.