Sarah Parsons played hockey in high school at Noble & Greenough prep school in Massachusetts and then played collegiately at Dartmouth, deferring her enrollment to play for the US team at the 2006 Winter Olympics. At Dartmouth she was second-team All-Ivy in 2007-08, and was the Most Outstanding Player in the ECAC Tournament in her junior year. She also played for the United States at the 2009 World Championships, winning a gold medal as a forward. She was one of the final cuts for the 2010 USA Women’s hockey team.