LOS ANGELES — Ali Riley and Christen Press will forever have a place in the history books as a couple of firsts for Angel City Football Club.

Riley, who attended Harvard-Westlake High and then onto Stanford, where she graduated in 2009, returned home for the 2022 NWSL season and was selected as Angel City’s first captain.

Press attended Chadwick High and also Stanford, graduating in 2010, ahead of the inaugural season. Angel City acquired her playing rights in a trade with Racing Louisville FC and would make Press the club’s first-ever player signed.

Sunday, both local products hit the field at BMO Stadium for one final time in front of the home fans in the last home game of the regular season. Both players announced that this will be their last season and are retiring.

Riley and Press

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