Simone Forbes


Simone Nagina Forbes is a Jamaican sportswoman, having represented Jamaica in no less than five sports, including netball, volleyball, basketball, football and softball.
Forbes played netball with Jamaica U21 in 1998, before making her debut with the Jamaican national team the following year. She continued with the national team, winning bronze medals at two World Championships and at the Commonwealth Games ; she also won a silver medal at the inaugural World Netball Series in 2009, followed by another bronze in 2010. Despite taking a short break away from the sport following the World Series, Forbes remained captain of the Sunshine Girls, and was selected as flag bearer for Jamaica at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. As of 2010 Forbes is playing domestic netball for Waulgrovians.
In volleyball, she earned a sports scholarship to Mercy College, New York in 2004. In 2005 Forbes made her debut for the Jamaican national volleyball team, and graduated from Mercy College the following year.
In 2011, Forbes tested positive for the banned substance Clomiphene – frequently used by athletes taking steroids, but also commonly used in fertility treatments – during an out-of-competition drug test. She was subsequently banned by the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission from playing netball for three months; the ban is scheduled to end just after the 2011 Netball World Championships in Singapore.

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