Levy was born in Cape Town, South Africa, the daughter of a father from South Africa (Denis Levy) and mother from the United States (Susan), and is Jewish.[5][6][7] Her father played rugby, and her great-uncle played rugby for the South African rugby union team Western Province.[1][8] Her paternal great-grandfather Louis Babrow, who was an opponent of South African apartheid, played for the South Africa national rugby union team (the Springboks) in the 1930s, and was one of the first Jewish players to do so.[8][1][6]
Levy and her family made aliyah and moved to Israel when she was two, and a few years later moved to San Diego, California.[6][3][8] She went to pre-school at the San Diego JCC, attended a San Diego synagogue, and went to a Jewish Community Center camp.[7][9] She competed in soccer at the 2010 and 2012 JCC Maccabi Games.[7] She celebrated her bat mitzvah in Israel.[9] In high school, she ran cross country and track, and competed in golf and soccer.[1]
In 2014, as a student of University City High School in San Diego, Levy was part of the March of the Living Western Region Delegation, visiting Poland and Israel. In her diary on April 29, 2014, after visiting the Belzec Death Camp memorial, where approx. 500,000 Jews were murdered, Levy wrote, "The monument we just visited was not like any I'd seen back home. The single passageway and looming walls created an overwhelming experience. All the Jews that arrived at this camp were killed, except for just one. All Jews. All the same fate. No other option. The huge walls in a narrow passageway made me feel the same sense of helplessness. None of my friends could ever understand the emotional journey on this trip, which made me feel alone, but the people with me on this trip created a loving community and helped me through this incredible experience every day.”[10][11]
In 2018, Levy was asked to play for USA Rugby's fifteens team, the USA Women's Eagles.[1][3] She earned her first cap against England.[3]
She switched to rugby sevens after she was asked to play for the U.S. sevens camp. Although she plays the wing position in the fifteens, she plays the positions of hooker, winger, centre, or prop in the sevens.[3][1][8] In 2022, she was asked to join the USA Sevens Residency, and she debuted in the 2022 World Rugby Sevens Series in Malaga, Spain.[3][8] That year she also began working with coach Zack Test, who is a past Olympian and was the national team's assistant coach.[9]
