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Sarah Lacina

American reality show contestant

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ30068133 ↗
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Sarah Lacina (born July 9, 1984) is an American reality television show contestant, police officer, and professional mixed martial arts fighter. She is best known for competing on the reality show Survivor three times, winning Survivor: Game Changers in 2017. She also won The Challenge: USA in 2022.

Early life

Lacina was born in Muscatine, Iowa in 1984. She grew up in Muscatine with her parents Lorrie and Ronald. Her mother worked in law enforcement.

Lacina attended Muscatine High School where she was a four-sport athlete. In 1997, she qualified for the regional USA Track and Field Junior Olympics.

She then attended Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, earning a Bachelor's degree in social work in 2006. While in college, she was a member of the track and cross country teams.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2017, 2022, 1997—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1983-10-19, 1984-07-09—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Sarah, Lacina and American is the immediate research focus.
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