Sarah Forbes is a volunteer women's lacrosse assistant coach at the

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. Originally from the Wembley Lacrosse Club in

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, Forbes played for the University of Maryland Terrapins, and won three national championships as a player. She was a three-time All-American, and was named the

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Female

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in 1997. In international lacrosse, Forbes represented the

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at four

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, including captaining Australia to their second world championship win in

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, and earning All World team honors in 2005 and

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including tournament MVP in 2005. In 2012 Forbes was elected to the Maryland Terrapins Athletics

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. and in 2019, she was inducted into the

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as a truly great player.

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