Sarah Hawkshaw played in the women's hockey tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, where Ireland finished tenth.
Hawkshaw attended Mount Sackville school and was a promising Gaelic footballer with St Brigid's GAA and Dublin at underage level. She went on to represent Ireland in under age cross country running and won an Irish Championship 800m indoor medal with Metro St Brigids, before concentrating on hockey.
Hawkshaw was named All-America in her final two seasons at the University of Massachusetts, where she studied from 2014 to 2017 on a hockey scholarship and graduated ranked eighth in the programme's history.
She is from Castleknock, Dublin. and currently plays with Braxgata in Antwerp..