Kimika Forbes

Forbes' successful season in the Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) Girls' Division in Trinidad earned her a scholarship at the Monroe Community College in New York. In 2011, Forbes was teammates with English footballer Mikaela Howell at Munroe Mustangs Women's College. In 2012, Forbes and Howell remained teammates and were joined by Croatian footballer Sandra Zigic in the side. Forbes attended the University of Maine Fort Kent (UMFK) in 2013 and 2014. In 2013, she won a United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) national championship and posted a USCAA-high 14 wins as goalkeeper with an outstanding season. In 2014, she was awarded Female Athlete of the Year and was also named USCAA First Team All American both years. In 2014 in the Boston Breakers team, Forbes was in an internationally mixed squad accompanied by Colombian Melissa Ortiz, Portuguese Suzane Pires, Canadian Nkem Ezurike, Mexican defender Bianca Sierra and Americans Nikki Washington, Kim Decesare, Bianca D'Agostino, Heather O'Reilly, Maddy Evans, Cat Whitehill and Mollie Pathman. Forbes was later inducted into the University of Maine Fort Kent Hall of Fame.

Wave FC

During the 2014/15 season, Forbes featured for native club Wave FC, along with Venezuelan Maleike Pacheco. In the 2015/16 season, she was in the squad with compatriot and future Sportivo Limpeño colleague Kennya Cordner.

Sportivo Limpeño

2016 Paraguayan Women's Championship

In October 2016, Forbes was approached by Sportivo Limpeño after they had seen a video of her best ever performance against USA in the 2014 CONCACAF Women's Championship. On 4 November 2016, Paraguayan newspaper HOY announced that Forbes, along with Paraguayan midfielder Dulce Quintana had signed with Sportivo Limpeño ahead of the 2016 Copa Libertadores Femenina. Forbes integrated into a squad with her compatriot with Kennya Cordner, both players became the first two Tobagonian footballers in the country's history to play in Paraguay. Forbes joined from FC Ulindi from a USA University League and arrived in Paraguay without speaking Spanish. Forbes shared her place in the Sportivo Limpeño squad alongside Paraguayan star Jessica Martínez. Before going into the 2016 Copa Libertadores Femenina, she became back-to-back Champions with Sportivo Limpeño in winning the 2016 Paraguayan Women's Championship. Sportivo Limpeño had defeated Cerro Porteño 4–2 on aggregate (1–1 and then 3–1) to be crowned champions of Paraguay's Women's Championship, and Limpeño's second consecutive league title.

2016 Copa Libertadores Femenina

In Sportivo Limpeño's opening fixture of the…

Forbes received her first call up for the Trinidad and Tabago national team aged 15 for a fixture against Mexico during the qualifying campaign for the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup to be held in China. She was also the number-one goalkeeper for the Trinidad and Tobago U20 Women's team at the CONCACAF Championships. In October 2011 at the Pan American Games, Forbes completed 270 minutes and played three group stage games as Trinidad & Tabago were eliminated from the Tournament with 1 point. Playing alongside her sister, Karyn, Forbes kept for her side in a 1–0 loss against Colombia, a 1–1 draw against Mexico, and a 3–0 defeat against Chile. At the 2014 CONCACAF Women's Championship in Kansas City, Forbes went on to become a household name in the United States when she held the USA national team, led by Abby Wambach, to just one goal in a nail-biting final, making several saves along the way to keep her team in the game until the very end. Despite the 1–0 loss, Forbes mad nine saves to keep the game close. Forbes' best save of the game came in the 52nd minute, when she stopped Abby Wambach on a breakaway and Megan Rapinoehit the rebound over the goal. In stoppage time, Forbes again came up big one-on-one, stopping subSydney Lerouxwith her left leg. Following the game, Trinidad and Tabago coached Randy Waldrum praised Forbes' goalkeeping heroics "She was big-time tonight, wasn’t she? Player of the game for us, for sure. She kept it close and kept us in it. She’s special. She was…

Forbes is from Plymouth, Tobago. Forbes prefers that people call her by the name Kimi. Forbes followed the careers and the saves of German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer and Chilean goalkeeper Claudio Bravo, stating that the former is a complete goalkeeper and that latter is an example of whom she wants to be. Forbes is also an admirer of Hope Solo, Almuth Schult and Iker Casillas.

Academics

She was awarded two academic scholarships, her alma mater is Monroe Community College, New York and the University of Maine Fort Kent (UMFK). In 2014, she graduated with an associate degree in general studies. In 2016, Forbes completed a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree. Forbes possesses an associate's degree in Elementary Education and she has also been on the Dean's List every semester since enrolling at UMFK. In 2018, Forbes was inducted into the UMFK's Hall of Fame.

Leadership

In 2017, Forbes praised Colombia's Liga Profesional and that it was recognizing the place for women in football. In 2017, Forbes had prepared to launch an academy for goal keepers in Trinidad & Tobago, whilst she would also run women's football events whenever she returned. In 2017, Forbes served as assistant coach for the Signal Hill Secondary Girls team during latter stages of the 2017 Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) season upon returning home at the conclusion of the Colombian Liga Femenina season. In 2024, she became a volunteer assistant coach for the Maine Maritime Academy…