Sarah Lacina

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. 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. == Career ==

After college, Lacina worked as a resource officer at Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids. At the Cedar Rapids Police Department, she met officer Tom Grubb, a MMA fighter who inspired her to take up mixed martial arts. ==Reality television==

Lacina's job with the Cedar Rapids Police Department has allowed her to take leave to participate in numerous competitive television shows. The theme of the season was "Brawn vs. Brains vs. Beauty." As a police officer, she started on the Brawn tribe called Aparri. She irecognized that her teammate Tony Vlachos was also a police officer, and the two formed an alliance called Cops-R-Us. Aparri won the first four immunity challenges, but after the tribe swap, she was the only original Aparri member to remain on that tribe. Ultimately, Lacina finished in eleventh place and was the first member of the jury. Survivor Game Changers Lacina returned for the 34th season, Survivor: Game Changers in 2017. She came in fourth place in this season. She came in fourth place in the show's final because her partner, Theo Campbell, was medically disqualified. ==Personal life==

Lacina lives in Marion, Iowa, with her husband and fellow police officer, Wyatt Wardenburg, and their son, Knox. In October 2020, Lacina appeared in an ad for Ashley Hinson, a Republican running for the United States House of Representatives for the Iowa First District against Democratic incombent Abby Finkenauer. In the ad, Lacina noted, "I don't care what side you're on, you can't trust anyone who votes with Nancy Pelosi 93 percent of the time." ==Filmography==