[5][11] Between 2014 and 2018 Hawkshaw attended the University of Massachusetts on a sports scholarship and gained a BS in Public Health Sciences.

[3][5][12] In 2013 Hawkshaw was a member of the Mount Sackville team that won the Leinster Schoolgirl's Senior Plate final.

She scored the winner from a penalty corner as Mount Sackville defeated a St Gerard's School team featuring Elena Tice 2–1.

[3][4] Together with Cecelia and Isobel Joyce, Emer Lucey, Kate McKenna and Grace O'Flanagan, Hawkshaw was a member of the Railway Union team that played in the 2014 EuroHockey Club Champions Cup.

[27][28][29] Source:[2] Since September 2018, Hawkshaw has worked as a field hockey coach at both The King's Hospital and Mount Sackville.