Sarah was raised in San Diego, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico. She has been an athlete since childhood, as both her parents were runners for the USA Track & Field Team. After graduating from Sandia High School, she went to San Diego State University on a running scholarship and became interested in acting while taking theatre classes. After college, she moved to California's Bay area where she worked with teens teaching cooking in an afterschool program in the Piedmont neighborhood of Oakland. Following that, she returned to New Mexico and began working in the film industry. She is now based in Los Angeles.

Her older sister Erin is also an athlete and world-traveler.Lived and studied in Hawaii on student exchange.Loves to rollerskate.Has traveled extensively through Europe.Competed on the San Diego State University's Division 1 Women's Cross Country Team.Is close with Green Day drummer Tre Cool.Has an aspiration to pilot her own cooking show.Is an award-winning snowboarder.