After a game in which eleven women’s collegiate rugby players from a single team were diagnosed by athletic trainers with a concussion, we conducted five focus-group interviews with a total sixteen of the team’s players. We asked in-depth semi-structured questions about athletic history, injury history, and experiences in the game mentioned above. We transcribed the responses and then separated them into themes using ATLAS.ti. as well as our knowledge of socio-historical research into women’s sport, women’s rugby, and women’s head injuries. We contend the views of the players interviewed highlight how, in certain settings, constructions of traditional masculinity and femininity can and are becoming fused and reshaped through sport. By qualifying traditional masculine practices (e.g. violence) with traditionally feminine qualities (e.g. elegance), the female athletes interviewed for this study construct an emergent gender performance in which acts of violence, aggression, risk-taking, physicality, and competitiveness are uniquely situated. This not only grants greater possibilities for women in the world of sport but proves an informative model for all sportspeople to follow. Nevertheless, it may also create and reinforce unnecessary and harmful norms related to the long-term health of young athletes.