“…The benefits of girls' sporting participation during adolescence is well documented (see Camacho-Minano, La Voi & Barr-Anderson, 2011;Greenleaf, Boyer & Petrie, 2009;Messner, 2002), however there are a multitude of barriers for adolescent girls' sporting participation, especially in regards to TMS. Barriers include perceived stereotypes, conforming to gender constructs of femininity, body image, peers, other priorities such as performing well academically and working part-time, time limitations, opportunity and structural barriers in addition to curriculum-based and other school-based barriers (Craike et al, 2009;Mitchell et al, 2015;Slater & Tiggemann, 2010).…”