 Did you have a female role model while going up? Um, yes, but Roma probably my mum, just because she kept herself really active and fit. So I'd say that's probably my only role model. My female role model is Hannah Miley, who's also a swimmer, and I found that she represents someone who shows that you can do anything you want to do as long as you put your mind to it. See where definitely Miss Sharp and then who I could actually see on the TV. My role model was Simone Biles. What do you think, for itself, young girls from trying out when you're sport? I think one of the main reasons is stigma from the media, as often it represents unrealistic beauty standards that a lot of young girls especially feel like they need to meet. Boys. So I would say probably the biggest thing would be embarrassment in front of boys. Boys. Because, like, sport can make your body look different to others and some girls struggle with body image. I think pressure, maybe a little bit of gender, maybe boy or girls, and I think media. Boys. It's to do with confidence, and a lot of females really struggle with confidence in a new environment, especially sport, when there's males around. Boys. Do you think there's enough opportunity and access for young girls to participate in sport? Yes, I think there is, but I do think there's a big enough drive for it. Well, there is quite a lot of opportunities, just not as many as boys. No, there definitely needs to be more opportunities and more encouragement. In some sports, yes, but in most sports, no. There's been more opportunities now, but growing up, not really. No, but I think we're getting there. Sport for females is growing, but it's nowhere now where it should be. I think there's a lot more than there used to be, but there's still like inequalities in sport between women and men because the 1500, the 1500 front crawl was unusually added in the Olympics for women. I think definitely more so now than years before. However, I still feel that boy sport is still widely more encouraged and it's encouraged for them to do it than it is for girls. Have you had any struggles with being in women in sport? Growing up with women in sport, my main struggle has been my period as sometimes it can make me feel amazing while other times it can make me feel really tired. Struggles would be that I would never be allowed to play with the boys. Some struggles, I think it's just hard to kind of keep up with the image of being sexually in gyms, you've got to be strong. Men seem to be the dominant cause when it comes to weightlifting and women are meant to be a certain way, a certain type, a certain body type. The boys told me I wasn't getting enough. Yes, so when I was growing up and when I was in the swimming club all of the coaches were male, so understanding the female body for them was quite difficult and the lack of knowledge that was accessible to them was limited. Yeah, I was told I wasn't good enough cause I was a girl. Why do you think by the age of 14 girls are dropping out of sport two times faster than boys? I think that leads to opportunities available, I don't think there's enough drive to keep going to push on. They just don't see it as being cool and a lot of females don't see it as an important thing in their life. It's more about looking good and not looking sweaty and running around and doing whatever in sport is my... Cause there's not enough influence for us. I think as a girl growing up it can be really hard for us as we have to deal with things like our period and unrealistic beauty standards again which are things boys don't have to deal with but also the encouragement girls just aren't encouraged to do it as much as boys are. There's not enough support for girls as a girl though. I think it's a variety of reasons but media, coaches and the lack of opportunities for single sex clubs is the main ones. What advice would you give to a young girl who's thinking what to do in sport? Just do it because you'll enjoy it and take everything you can forward. I think you won't know unless you try and I think once you throw yourself just into something, give it all you've got. Don't do it for any further back, just throw yourself in, launch in and just do what you enjoy. Take any opportunities that you can get. Try it out because you never know, you might like it. Don't let anybody else tell you you're worth. Don't listen to what other people have to say, just do it. Don't let anyone put you off. Don't give up when things get hard because you'll regret it and keep your bum. Go for it. To try as many different sports as you can. Keep trying different things then you will find something that interests you be it a team game or a racket sport or an aquatic in the water or an aesthetic. There's definitely something out there for everybody and I would encourage all young girls to get this idea out their head that they are not as good as boys because I could run rings around the vast majority of boys when I was at high school and I think that they need to be confident about their bodies, their image and just try it. You've got to try it because I am utterly convinced that there's something for everybody and being such an important part of my life I will never give it up.