Simone Forbes

Simone Nagina Forbes, born on 20 June 1981, is a Jamaican sportswoman who has represented Jamaica in at least five sports: netball, volleyball, basketball, football and softball. She is best known for netball, where she played for Jamaica at under-21 level in 1998, debuted for the senior national team the following year and won bronze medals at the 2003 and 2007 Netball World Championships and the 2002 Commonwealth Games. She captained the Sunshine Girls and was Jamaica's flag bearer at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi. She earned a sports scholarship to Mercy College in New York in 2004 and debuted for the Jamaica women's national volleyball team in 2005.