In 2013, Forsyth was awarded the NASSH Book of the Year Award for Best Anthology for Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues , which she co-edited with Audrey Giles from the University of Ottawa, and the Early Researcher Award/Premier's Research Excellence Award from the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development & Innovation. In 2015, she was named the winner for best paper published in the journal Sport History for her article "Make the Indian Understand his Place: Politics and the Establishment of the Tom Longboat Awards at Indian Affairs and the Amateur Athletic Union of Canada."
