Sarah Wattenberg serves as the assistant athletics director for Sports Performance after joining UNLV Athletics in 2017. She moved to Las Vegas originally as the student-athlete engagement specialist, after spending over a decade of her career at her alma mater, Cornell University, where she was a student-athlete.

Serving on the department’s executive leadership team, Sarah advocates and represents the voice for all holistic services. Over the years, she has worn many hats to help the department where needed to support the student-athlete experience. Sarah’s main responsibility is the coordination and integration of Sports Medicine, Strength & Conditioning, Sport Psychology, Sport Nutrition and Sport Science. In 2018, she was instrumental in adding and incorporating Psychology, Nutrition and Sport Science staff to the performance team to increase services for UNLV Student-Athletes. As the department centered a commitment around enhancing health and wellness initiatives, Sarah helped spearhead the partnership with UNLV's nationally recognized William Harrah College of Hospitality in January of 2020 when the department opened the Rebel Training Table out of the Gaughan Family Dining Room in the Fertitta Football Complex. Sarah also helps oversee the health and wellness areas of The Whole Rebel Academy - UNLV Athletics' life skills programming as she is able to connect utilization trends with needed education topics. Sarah serves as the Athletics Health Care Administrator and Drug Testing Coordinator as well as a Title IX Deputy Coordinator for the institution. She co-advises the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.

Prior to coming to UNLV, Sarah served as the Andrew '78 and Margaret Paul Assistant Director of Athletics for Student Services at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York from 2012-2017 where she oversaw the academic, personal needs, and athletic counseling for all Big Red student-athletes. Sarah earned her Master's Degree in 2005 from the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga in Athletic Training before returning to her Alma mater as an athletic trainer from 2005-2012. While an undergraduate at Cornell, Sarah was a two-time team captain of the Women's Track and Field team, an Ivy League Champion in the shot put, and the school record holder in the javelin and hammer throw.

Sarah and her husband Clint reside in Las Vegas with their children Payton and Landon.