About the Authors

Hilary A. T. Caldwell

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Child Health & Exercise Medicine Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Alexandra Wilson

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sport for Life Society, Victoria, BC, Canada

Drew Mitchell

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sport for Life Society, Victoria, BC, Canada

Brian W. Timmons

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

timmonbw@mcmaster.ca

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Child Health & Exercise Medicine Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, Department of Kinesiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

Competing Interests

Two of the authors, AW and DM, are employed by Sport for Life. The final version of the PLEA Tool is open-source and available free of charge on Sport for Life’s website and there is no intention of revenue generation. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.