Sara Hendershot (born April 27, 1988) is an American rower from West Simsbury, CT, who competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the women's pair with Sarah Zelenka.

Sara played soccer and swimming in high school, but began rowing full-time in college at Princeton University.

She was named a Division I First-Team All-American her junior and senior years of college.

Sara won the gold medal in the women's eight at the 2010 World Rowing U23 Championships.

[2] On July 28, 2012 Sara qualified for the Olympic finals after recording a time of 6:59.29 in the preliminaries.