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06/09/2025

Our Raising Her Game docuseries is featured at the George W. Bush Presidential Center starting today! The center’s new special exhibit, Game Changer: United by Sports presented by Garry Weber, brings to life the power of sports in shaping the U.S.’s identity and inspiring change beyond the game. A five-minute excerpt from RHG is included in the section about Title IX. The exhibit will run through January 2027 – check it out in Dallas on the campus of . And stream the entire Raising Her Game docuseries for free on Victory+ Sports.

03/09/2025

On this day in 1993, the Texas Longhorns Soccer team played its first varsity game. The Raising Her Game docuseries tells the story of how that team came to be and the knock-on effect it had on the bigger picture of soccer & women’s sports. Stream the doc free on Victory+ Sports.

20/08/2025

On this day two years ago, we found ourselves in Austin shooting a soccer game between Rice and the University of Texas. That was one of the early shoots in what became the soccer documentary Raising Her Game, now streaming free on Victory+ Sports. The Longhorns helped us out with some visuals by scoring six goals, including a brace from Lexi Missimo. Texas Longhorns Soccer

12/08/2025

As the college soccer season begins this week, we invite you check out some behind-the-scenes photos from our Raising Her Game documentary about the game’s evolution, told through the eyes of Texas Longhorns Soccer - now streaming on Victory+ Sports. They're on the series website - find lots more great content and deeper dives there. https://rhgmovie.com/media/

Explore our exclusive behind-the-scenes images capturing the journey and milestones of Raising Her Game as it unfolds.

23/06/2025

On this day 53 years ago, President Richard Nixon signed Title IX of the Education Amendments Act of 1972 into law. The blog post at this link has a very quick overview of what that was and you can learn a lot more about it in the Raising Her Game docuseries now streaming on Victory+ Sports.

The Transformative Impact of the 1972 Education Amendments and Title IX The Education Amendments Act of 1972 made updates to several previous pieces of legislation, including the Higher Education Act of 1965. Manifested as Public Law 92-318, it had several sections. They included verbiage dedicated....

22/06/2025

Last night, two of the men from Men In Blazers, Roger Bennett and U.S. soccer icon Clint Dempsey, discussed the USMNT and more. The session and the follow-up interview with Bennett by Rush Olson of Mint Farm Films yielded insights into the state of soccer in the U.S., adding to insights from the Raising Her Game documentary series streaming on Victory+ Sports.

Saturday night, a soccer podcast discussed how a number of the USMNT’s best players had come through the North Texas area in their development path. The discussion included names like Weston McKinnie, Ricardo Pepi, and Chris Richards, the goal scorer in Thursday’s 1-0 win against Saudi Arabia in...

18/06/2025

Haley Berg played professionally in Spain, Iceland, Turkey, and Denmark before joining Dallas Trinity FC of the USL Super League. Before going pro, she played at the NCAA level for Texas Longhorns Soccer. As part of our bonus content series that expands on some of the themes in Raising Her Game, she talks about her path in the sport with docuseries Director Rush Olson.

The midfielder’s subsequent journey through the professional ranks reflected some of the changes in the women’s game one sees unfold in RHG (now streaming on Victory+ Sports). Watch the full interview on DTFC or Mint Farm Films YouTube channels or read the blog post at rhgmovie.com or Mint Farm’s LinkedIn page.
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Haley Berg played professionally in Spain, Iceland, Turkey, and Denmark before joining Dallas Trinity FC of the USL Super League. Before going pro, she playe...

13/06/2025

The subject of this blog post, Camryn Lancaster, played for Solar Soccer Club at the club level, NCAA Division I TCU – Texas Christian University, and the semi-pro California Storm before joining the fully professional ranks with Dallas Trinity FC in the Division I USL Super League. In this interview, she talks with Rush Olson about her path to the pros – a path that didn’t exist for women in decades past.

The Raising Her Game docuseries Olson directed (now streaming on Victory+ Sports) is centered around using Texas Longhorns Soccer as a fulcrum to tell the story of how women’s sports and U.S. soccer evolved concurrently. But it includes segments about the TCU Women's Soccer program and Dallas-Fort Worth-based Solar. Camryn’s knowledge of multiple levels of the soccer pyramid added interesting context to those themes.

The Raising Her Game docuseries is centered around using the The University of Texas at Austin women’s soccer as a fulcrum to tell the story of how women’s sports and U.S.

12/06/2025

We got to assist The National Basketball Retired Players Association - Dallas Chapter with their annual golf tournament - check out our short sizzle reel of former pro basketball and football athletes having fun on the links!

07/06/2025

Rush Olson of Mint Farm Films got a chance to join the Your Dark Companion podcast to talk sports and also had a chance to mention the Raising Her Game and College Gridiron Showcase docuseries now streaming on Victory+ Sports. You can also learn why he grew his beard. https://www.patreon.com/YourDarkCompanion?fbclid=IwY2xjawKwkzpleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFGMG5UU01BbjdCQnRINGxxAR5ee3EXHXelKnzPlsxLeuGjLIprvzJa6_6uulxO2U5hYQaHT0D1gX7xUsJswA_aem_SGdZxtvlC-ERLq3oaQmqGA

05/06/2025

Here's a new deep dive into topics covered in our Raising Her Game docuseries - an interview with Dallas Trinity FC forward Cyera Hintzen!

Cyera Hintzen Dishes On The Longhorns, The Draft, and Playing Opportunities Cyera Hintzen played soccer at the University of Texas for Coach Ange Kelly from 2016 through 2019. The forward is tied for sixth in program history in goals scored. She twice earned All-Big 12 Conference First Team and USCA...

30/05/2025

The story of how Nigerian international Deborah Ajibola Abiodun ended up at the University of Pittsburgh appears in Episode 3 of the docuseries Raising Her Game, now streaming free on Victory+ Sports. For this interview, RHG Director Rush Olson showed her the segment in which her college and national team coach, Randy Waldrum, explained how she did it. Now with Dallas Trinity FC, her comments provide insight into the obstacles a woman in her country must navigate to find soccer opportunities.

Dallas Trinity FC plays its final regular season game Saturday night at the Cotton Bowl stadium. Deborah and her Nigeria Super Falcons squad take on Cameroon in Ikenne, Nigeria earlier the same day. You can stream the Raising Her Game series for free on Victory+ worldwide. The app is available on smartphones, most smart TVs, and you can also watch at victoryplus.com.

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Deborah Abiodun twice earned All-ACC honors at the University of Pittsburgh before playing her first professional games with Dallas Trinity FC in the USL Sup...