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'It changed my life': How tackle football is a growing option for high school girls in Ontario

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Trista Thompson worries that once she graduates from high school her football career might end. Thompson is a Grade 12 student at St.

Benedict Catholic Secondary School in Sudbury, Ont. and plays as a middle linebacker for the school's girls' tackle football team.

Because girls' full-contact football is so new at Ontario high schools, the team has to travel to Toronto and Ottawa to find opponents.

After Thompson graduates, her options with the sport in Ontario will be limited.  "I'm really hoping that they start up like a league for us to go and play because there's nothing right now and I think that would be really fun," she said. "I would definitely join if there was something coming up." Two years ago St.

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