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Sarah Marie Vaillancourt (b. May 8, 1985 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Canadian women's ice hockey player.
She currently is an up and coming star playing for the Harvard University Crimson. She graduated from high school as a tri-varsity captain and athlete from Pomfret School in Pomfret, Connecticut as a member of the class of 2004. In 2005, she made the Canadian national women's hockey team, where she would go on to play at the 2005 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships in Sweden. In her first game ever, she led Canada with 6 points in an 13-0 win over the Kazakhstani national women's ice hockey team. This tied a record for most points in a game on the Canadian national team. She would finish the tournament with 8 points. On February 20, 2006, Vaillancourt, as the second youngest member of the team, won a team gold medal in Turin with the Canadian Women's Hockey team beating Sweden in the final game and outscoring their oppoents 46 to 2.
