a women's tackle football team in Nashville,# Tennessee.

She founded the team in 2022 with## her wife, Tessa, to build community and# break barriers for women through sports.

Tonight, Ortiz-Marsh shares her Brief# But Spectacular take on building a team.

RACHAEL ORTIZ-MARSH, Founder and Co-Owner,# Tennessee Trojans: The common misconception## about women in sports that somehow we play it differently.

But we don't.

WOMAN: Ready, WOMAN: One, two, three.

PLAYERS: Trojans!

We are one of 16 teams in the Women's# National Foo full tackle, 11-on-11 women's football league.

WOMAN: My earliest memory of football# was when we were in high sc and my coach told us that females# could never play football,## and after that moment I have been# on a mission to play ever since.

WOMAN: I'm a sister of five brothers,# and I played football sinc 4 years old, trying to hang with them.

They# tackle me, and I'm ready to get my lick back.

WOMAN: I'm still a rookie.

This is my second year# playing football, and my brother got me into it.

WOMAN: I love the intensity.

It feels like home.# It feels like I don't get judged.

I can be myself.

WOMAN: When I was 17 years old,# I decided to join the military,## and I said I'm only going in for four# years.

I will be back in 22 years,## eight months, and 14 days later, when# I retired.

That's when I came back.

RACHAEL ORTIZ-MARSH: I started the team with my# wife.

She is the quarterback of our team.

She## said, one day, I found this newspaper ad about a# get-together to discuss playing women's football.

Up until that point, I had never even known that# women's tackle football existed.

When I went out## to that first game, there was like nothing like# it, seeing women like yourself just being able## to be passionate and raw and emotional about# something other than what you expect a woman## to traditionally be passionate about, which# is family, kind of where my journey started.

WOMAN: The team feels like family.

WOMAN: A lot of us come from single-parent homes.

WOMAN: My teammates are everything# to me.

I will give my last to them.

RACHAEL ORTIZ-MARSH: This team has benefited# women's lives by impacting how they themselves, how their family views them,# the confidence and esteem that they build.

For me, this team breathes as much# life into me as I do into them,## and I look at them, and I'm just# like, they are the reason I'm here.

My name is Rachael Ortiz-Marsh, and this is my# Brief But Spectacular take on building a team.

AMNA NAWAZ: And you can watch more Brief But## Spectacular videos online# at PBS.o