Riley’s Childhood Home Destroyed

Five days before Ali Riley was to be married in Ventura County, the house she grew up in on Kagawa Street was burned down on the first night of the Palisades Fire. The international soccer star’s parents, John Riley and Bev Lowe, had lived there for 40 years and as they always do, they took the disaster in stride, happy to see their only child betrothed to her longtime boyfriend Lucas Nilsson, also a soccer player.        

Riley played multiple sports at St. Matthew’s, earned All-CIF honors at Harvard-Westlake High and enjoyed a stellar collegiate career at Stanford before gaining fame with Angel City FC and as captain of the New Zealand women’s national team.

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Kaitlyn Parcell, a Pali High soccer alum who nows plays professionally in Denmark, also lost her childhood house in the fire. Her father Don told the Post that she was safe in Huntington Beach with her boyfriend and her brother Max was also safe in San Diego.