This thesis examines how sexuality and gender intersect to affect leadership in a sport context in Australia. Women’s embodiment of leadership in predominantly masculine domains such as sport administration has been considered in previous research, but sexuality is often sidelined in these articulations. My research explores the question of who it is possible to become in leadership roles in sport, in order to bring sexuality into direct relation with leadership to unsettle the masculine heteronormativity of sport. I begin with the use of the ‘traditional’ method of oral history interviews before shifting towards thinking with theory. Informed by feminist post-structural and postqualitative approaches, I explore alternative ways of thinking about leadership through the privileging of affect. I use critical-creative analytic assemblage thinking and consider the power struggles that haunt the sport leadership space. I aim to contribute to the body of work on queering sport by focusing on and unpacking the complexities that arise through analysis of affective, disruptive moments and tensions that emerge through the construction of narrative. Drawing upon contemporary feminist thought, I plug-in theories of emotion and affect to explore how both leadership and the research process are enacted and performed to produce a multiplicity of knowledges. My analysis gestures towards the complex affects and power relations that circulate through sport assemblages, and I problematise linear notions of progress towards ‘success’ or ‘gender equity’ outcomes. This research contributes to shifting the focus from women as individualised subjects who ‘lack’ leadership ‘qualities’ towards a conceptualisation of leading as relational.