Chelsea Forkin

Chelsea Forkin (born 14 July 1989) is a softball and baseball player. As a softball player, Chelsea has won 3 Australian National Championship titles with the Western Australian Flames and 1 title with the Queensland Heat.

Career During her baseball career, she competed at the 2003 Under 14 Australian National Baseball Championships, one of only two girls competing. As a 15 year old, she represented Australia at the 2004 Women's Baseball World Series in Uozu, Japan and the Inaugural Women's World Cup of Baseball in Edmonton, Canada. At the age of 16, Chelsea left the sport of baseball to play softball, where she is a utility player. She went on to represent Australia in softball at the junior and senior national level. With the Junior National Team she competed at the 2007 ISF Junior Women's World Championships winning a Bronze Medal. Her first appearance for the Senior National Team was later that year, in a series against China at Redland City, Queensland. Chelsea's first Senior World Championship appearance was in 2010 in Venezuela, where the Aussie Spirit finished 6th. Chelsea currently has 2 bronze medals from the 2012 ISF XIII Women's World Championships and 2014 ISF Women's World Championships. In 2016, she planned to play for the Dallas Charge in the National Pro Fastpitch League and also represent Australia at the 2016 ISF Women's World Championships in Surrey, Canada.

Baseball Forkin started in baseball as a six-year-old playing teeball. She followed the path to baseball and in 2001 by the age of eleven, she played on a boys' team, Melville Braves where she earned the team's Fairest and Best award. Starting off in the junior system, she competed at the 2003 U14 Australian National Baseball Championships in Alice Springs, Northern Territory where she represented Western Australia. She was one of only two girls to participate in the tournament and was Western Australia's first girl ever to be named to the boys' team. where she earned a bronze medal. She was still with the team in 2008.

Forkin has represented Western Australia on the national level, She has competed at softball on other levels inside Australia. In 2008, she played for a local side at the Northern Territory titles. This was her first international competition with the team. She played in the 8–0 loss to the United States. It was her second loss on the day, also having played in a game where Australia lost to Japan. She was on the Australian side that won a bronze medal at the 2011 Canada Cup.

Forkin was selected for the Australian women's national softball team at the 2020 Summer Olympics. The team came away with one win out of five, beating Italy 1-0 in their second match of the Round Robin and finished fifth overall. Full details are in Australia at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Recognition In 2011, she was recognised by the Australian Institute of Sport when she was named as having earned a Sport Achievement Award.

Personal Forkin was born on 14 July 1989 in Perth, Western Australia and is from Anketell, Western Australia.