The Sarah Devens Award for the player who best "demonstrates leadership and commitment both on and off the ice" is named in her honor.
One of her ancestors is Charles Devens, a major general in the Union Army during the United States Civil War.
Her mother, Sally Willard, coached Sarah in both field hockey and lacrosse in elementary school.
She attended Shore Country Day School in Beverly, Massachusetts, from kindergarten through grade 9.
[2] In an interview with The Dartmouth school paper in the summer of 1994, Devens stated that she sometimes felt she was missing out on things by participating in three Division I sports.
On July 10, 1995, Devens invited her friend Maura Schneider to go mountain biking.