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After the Game: A 20 Year Look at Three Former Athletes spans nearly 20 years to unveil the long-term empowering impact of sports on women. The film follows three young women on a 1999 collegiate basketball team as they push to reach their athletic potential and seek NCAA glory at a small university. Nearly 20 years later, these same women each find themselves applying lessons learned from their playing days to different professional off-the-court challenges. Weaving together the stories of two college basketball players, Michelle Ruzzi and Polly Neves, and their head coach Mary Hegarty, After the Game: A 20 Year Look at Three Former Athletes gives perspective into the world of small-time college athletics and what motivates women without aspirations for a professional sports career to keep playing. By juxtaposing intimate stories from a 1999 college basketball season with the present-day career challenges faced by those same athletes as adults, After the Game: A 20 Year Look at Three Former Athletes highlights the connection between sports participation and professional success.