Skylar Forbes wasted no time making her intentions clear.

The Marquette women’s basketball star forward entered the transfer portal for her final year of eligibility minutes after it opened on Monday, making her the fourth Golden Eagle to do so this offseason. On3’s Talia Goodman first reported the news at 12:17 a.m. on April 6.

BREAKING: Marquette’s Skylar Forbes has entered the transfer portal, sources told @On3.

The 6-3 junior averaged 15.5 ppg and 4.9 rpg this season.

TRACKER: https://t.co/wYv1Ze6EPC pic.twitter.com/fpevPujI47

— Talia Goodman (@TaliaGoodmanWBB) April 6, 2026

Forbes spent three seasons in the blue & gold, originally signing for former head coach Megan Duffy before deciding to stay a Golden Eagle under Cara Consuegra for two seasons.

She came into this season as the fourth player in program history to be named to the Naismith Women’s College Player of the Year preseason watch list. She was one one of 50 student-athletes on the list, and one of five from outside the Power 4 conferences (SEC, ACC, Big Ten, Big 12).

The 6-foot-3 forward finished the year leading Marquette in scoring (15.5 points per game) and the entire Big East in blocks (1.8 per game). She earned unanimous all-conference first team honors for the second season in a row.

But, she also missed a game for personal reasons and came off the bench five times. Consuegra said she wanted Forbes to get a feel for the game from the sidelines before entering. 

Forbes joins in the portal junior forward Jada Bediako, who averaged 2.3 points per game; senior forward Aryelle Stevens, who missed the season with an Achilles injury; and junior forward Charia Smith, who averaged 3.3 points per game.

Add in the seven graduating seniors, and, as of April 6, the Golden Eagles have only five players projected to be on next season’s roster: Halle Vice, Jordan Meulemans, Kameron Herring, JJ Barnes and incoming first-year Se’Crette Carter. 

It’s a drastic shift after Marquette was the only NCAA Division I team in the country to return its entire roster last season.

Now, Consuegra has a busy two weeks until the portal closes on April 20 to fill 10 open scholarship sports — and try to replace the team’s leading scorer.