The game Ali Riley adored would lead her around the world, and the more she played and traveled and learned and understood and grasped how it’s healthy to shock one’s system, the more her viewpoint blossomed.
For someone who yearns to boost and grow her sport, how about as the co-host nation’s co-captain, in front of little girls who might resemble that Mia Hamm-loving 11-year-old who went to the Rose Bowl on July 10, 1999, with her parents “and 98,997 other people,” as she put it, and remembers both the big heat and the vast warmth? How about a significant visit to the country of her numerous visits — “I got my New Zealand passport when I was born” — and where her childhood beamed with the December...
“She’s a very happy person — and positive, very positive,” her mother, Bev Lowe, said at lunch at the same family home where Ali grew up. “So maybe that comes across, I’m not sure.” Long before Riley ever arrived to smile and co-captain, her parents met while working at the Rand Corporation, the Santa Monica-based global policy think tank. John noticed Lowe carried a tennis racket. John asked to play. Lowe clobbered John, according to John. Lowe liked John’s level, though, so she hoped to keep things all tennis. Said Ali: “She didn’t feel like anyone else at their work was, like, up to par, so she didn’t want to lose this, like, tennis friend-slash-opponent.
“It was really eye-opening, I think, to see countries, and of course the island [nations] and the climate feels like paradise, but these players that we’ve played against, these teams, when I went to Samoa, of course, they’re so overwhelmed by the occasion — these are qualifiers for the under-20, so I had never been anywhere like Samoa,” Riley said. “And just seeing the infrastructure, we were on a wooden bus — you have to see it to understand, but this bus was made out of wood.
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