National sport organisations are creating female specific pathway programmes to assist young high potential female athletes to reach the elite senior level. However, current talent development (TD) research mostly reflects male populations. Critically male team sport talent development environments (TDEs) and TD processes that are available in the literature cannot be superimposed to female team sports without exploring this specific context. Therefore to examine the gaps within TD research Chapter 1 searched relevant studies between 1999-2019 and highlighted the dearth of TD literature (<10%) that relate to female only populations. Therefore to fill this gender data gap Chapter 4 sought to explore the TDE of a female national team sport, through using the TDEQ-5, to better understand this complex TDE. The complexity in the TDE is reflective of the multiple contexts players co-inhabit. Chapter 5 was a follow up study including semi structured focus groups to provide richer insights regarding the lack of coherence and joint up systematic development of athletes found in the TDE. Results indicated coaches are working in silos, off their own agenda, with little direction provided by the NGB. Accordingly it was important to better understand the TD processes in the female team sport TDE. Therefore Chapter 6 used the Psychological Characteristics of Developing Excellence Questionnaire Version 2 (PCDEQ2) to investigate the psychobehavioural skills evident in the national TD pathway. Results indicated differences between the playing groups and also depicted the lack of systematic development of these skills. Chapter 7 and 8 analysed game locomotor data using GPS metrics to better understand a young high potential athletes physical preparedness to transition vertically through the latter end of the pathway towards the senior elite level and horizontally towards the national TD pathway. The between game variability data in Chapter 7 was greater for higher speed compared to lower speed movements. This data can be interpreted to inform a threshold value to assist practitioners in determining a real change in performance over time for each locomotor metric. Results form Chapter 8 indicated the between game variability was higher at the club level compared to national level and the within game variability was lower in comparison to the national level, highlighting a contrast in the locomotor demands experienced at each playing level. This suggests the club level competition is not preparing players for the physical locomotor demands they are likely to experience at national level. Overall, the results throughout the thesis reflect a complex female team sport TDE providing practical guidelines to assist practitioners in other female team sport settings.