Sarah Lacina

Sarah Ann Lacina is the Sole Survivor of. She previously competed on.

In Cagayan, Sarah is best remembered for being blindsided at the beginning of the merge, after she considered herself to have the most power as the swing vote between two major alliances. This caused fellow tribemate Kass McQuillen to flip on the majority alliance and vote her out instead.

Returning to Game Changers with a vow to play a more assertive game, Sarah found herself able to navigate throughout the cast of returning players, assuming a much more aggressive and cutthroat stance in the game. After acquiring and successfully playing both the Vote Steal and the Legacy Advantage, helping orchestrate an array of blindsides, and forging strong social connections with fellow castaways, Sarah was awarded the title of Sole Survivor against Brad Culpepper and Troyzan Robertson in a 7-3-0 vote.

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Cagayan
Sarah was initially placed on the Aparri tribe of Brawns on . While in the woods, Sarah interrogated fellow police officer Tony Vlachos, asking if he was a cop. He lied to her, saying no, but Sarah did not believe this as she is also a cop. After some time, Tony decided to tell the truth. They bonded and formed an alliance called "Cops-R-Us". However, Tony lied once again to Sarah, saying that Cliff Robinson and Lindsey Ogle were gunning for her. Tony and Sarah convinced Woo Hwang and Trish Hegarty to come into their alliance and throw the challenge to vote Cliff out, who would then be followed by Lindsey. At the Immunity Challenge on Day 11, Solana easily came in first place. Despite Sarah, Trish, and Woo attempting to throw the challenge, Cliff single-handedly saved himself by winning the challenge for them, coming in second place, continuing their winning streak, and did not have to attend a Tribal Council. Though she was disappointed that Cliff was still in the game, Sarah showed no remorse for rival tribe Luzon and said they deserved to lose after their terrible performance.

At the tribe switch on Day 12, Sarah was left as the only remaining Brawn still on Aparri, as all her tribemates had been swapped to Solana. On Day 15, Sarah was thrilled when host Jeff Probst told her tribe that Cliff and Lindsey had both been eliminated the night before, Cliff at Tribal Council, and Lindsey quitting afterwards. When the Aparri tribe lost the subsequent Immunity Challenge, Tony yelled "Top 5" while celebrating victory with the Solana tribe, which made Sarah feel excluded. At Sarah's first Tribal Council, she joined Brains Kass McQuillen, Spencer Bledsoe, and Tasha Fox, as well as Beauty Morgan McLeod in deciding the fate of the other Beauties, Alexis Maxwell and Jeremiah Wood. They voted Alexis out, fearing she would reconnect with her old allies at the merge.

The tribes merged into the Solarrion tribe on Day 17. Sarah found herself the swing vote between both tribes. At first, Sarah wanted to stick with the Aparri Alliance, but Kass questioned her loyalty, which made Sarah feel insecure. Tony tried to make Sarah swear to side back with his Solana Alliance, though she couldn't. Kass continued to argue with Sarah, which Trish saw as an opportunity. Kass and Tasha asked Sarah if she was willing to send home Trish or Jefra Bland, which Sarah refused as she would rather target a strong male who could possibly have a Hidden Immunity Idol such as Tony or LJ McKanas. Trish and Tony realized that Sarah was no longer on their side and Trish went to talk to Kass to convince her to go with her alliance's votes. At Tribal Council, the new Aparri voted for Jefra, while all of the new Solana voted for Sarah. Kass flipped on her alliance and voted for Sarah, sending her home as the first jury member and in 11th place.

At Final Tribal Council, Sarah congratulated the finalists. Sarah called out Tony for breaking their promise to not vote each other out. Sarah then asked Woo if he would vote for her if she played the same game as Tony did. Woo said if she did it without the idols, he would vote for her. Despite liking Woo and being angry with Tony, Sarah voted for the latter to become the Sole Survivor, contributing to his victory in an 8-1 vote.

Game Changers
Sarah was initially placed on the Nuku tribe, where she aligned with Cirie Fields. However, many other Nuku members were targeting Cirie and Sarah was willing to go along with that plan if they lost. However, because Nuku won the first two challenges, they did not go to Tribal Council. After the tribe switch occurred on Day 7, she, along with fellow Nuku members Andrea Boehlke, Ozzy Lusth, Zeke Smith, and Cirie, and original Mana member Troyzan Robertson, were switched to the newly formed third tribe, Tavua. Here, Sarah aligned with outsider Troyzan, but Tavua did not go to Tribal Council due to strong performances at the next three Immunity Challenges.

After Tavua was dissolved, she along with Zeke, Ozzy, Tai Trang, and Andrea, was switched back to Nuku on Day 14, where they were joined by Sandra Diaz-Twine and Jeff Varner. After losing her first Immunity Challenge on Day 16, Sarah voted with the majority at Tribal Council, resulting in Sandra's elimination and Debbie Wanner joining the tribe after returning from. After Nuku lost immunity again on Day 18, Jeff outed Zeke for being transgender at the subsequent Tribal Council, hoping to paint him as being capable of deception. Sarah tearfully accused Jeff of making a malicious attack, and expressed her support for Zeke. She then joined the rest of the tribe in verbally voting out Jeff.

Once the tribes merged into the Maku Maku tribe on Day 19, Sarah joined the Tavua Alliance led by Cirie and Andrea. However, she formed strong bonds with the rival Power Six alliance, led by Sierra Dawn Thomas and Brad Culpepper, and joined to eliminate Hali Ford at the first post-merge Tribal Council. On Day 24, Sarah found herself the swing vote between the two alliances. Cirie and Andrea wanted to vote out Zeke for betraying the Tavua Alliance, while Debbie attempted to recruit Sarah to join the Power Six to eliminate challenge threat Ozzy. At Tribal Council, Sarah joined the Power Six to blindside Ozzy with the added insurance of Debbie's Extra Vote.

On Day 25, Sarah managed to retrieve the Vote Steal advantage, which was placed under the sit-out bench at a Reward Challenge. Although Sarah competed in the challenge, she noticed the advantage while Michaela Bradshaw, who was sitting out, did not. Before boarding the boat to leave the challenge, Sarah managed to grab the advantage without her tribemates noticing. After the next Immunity Challenge, the Power Six targeted Andrea, though Sarah felt excluded from the decision and conspired with Zeke. However, Sarah reconsidered after Sierra proposed a final three deal with her and Debbie. Later, Debbie told Aubry Bracco that Sarah did not trust her. Aubry informed Sarah and the rest of her alliance of this, which made Sarah flip to the Tavua Alliance to blindside Debbie.

Sarah later revealed her Vote Steal advantage to Cirie in order to secure her trust. After Andrea won the next Immunity Challenge, she campaigned to eliminate Zeke for continuously plotting against the Tavua Alliance. This worried Michaela and Sarah, as they were afraid that this would allow the remnants of the Power Six to later regain the majority. However, both Michaela and Sarah joined their alliance in blindsiding Zeke at Tribal Council. The following day, Sarah tearfully reunited with her husband, Wyatt, at the Loved Ones Challenge. Though the team of Aubry, Andrea, and Brad won, Sarah and Cirie were chosen to join them on the reward, along with their loved ones. Following this, Sierra told Sarah about the Legacy Advantage she acquired at the marooning, stating that if she were to be voted out, she would will the advantage to her. As a result of this information, Sarah orchestrated Sierra's elimination, feigning expressions of shock after the votes were read. Unaware that Sarah had participated in her blindside, Sierra willed Sarah the Legacy Advantage, which appeared in her bag the following morning.

Prior to the final seven Tribal Council, Sarah gave her Vote Steal advantage to Cirie as a sign of trust. In order to save Sarah from Tai's plan to eliminate her, Cirie tried to play the advantage at Tribal Council. However, it was then revealed that the advantage was non-transferable, and could only be played by the person who found it. Sarah asked for the advantage back and subsequently played it, negating Tai's vote and putting two votes on Michaela, one of Cirie's closest allies. Brad and Troyzan voted for Michaela as well, resulting in her elimination. After returning from Tribal Council, Sarah confronted Cirie for attempting to use the advantage without discussing her plan beforehand, and Cirie told her that she did so only because Sarah did not believe that Tai was coming after her. After finding out from Tai himself about his plan to vote her out, Sarah apologized to Cirie and rebuked Tai for backstabbing her.

On Day 36, Brad won immunity and chose to share the reward with Sarah and Troyzan. On the reward, the three agreed to target Tai. At Tribal Council, Sarah played the Legacy Advantage, which negated the three votes cast against her, Tai played an Hidden Immunity Idol on himself and Aubry, and Troyzan played an idol on himself, leaving Cirie as the only non-immune person, causing her to be eliminated by default. On Day 37, Sarah and Tai were caught in the middle of the duo of Brad and Troyzan who were targeting Aubry, and Aubry who was targeting Troyzan. Both Sarah and Tai ended up siding with Brad and Troyzan, leading to Aubry's unanimous elimination. On Day 38, Brad and Troyzan targeted Tai, while Tai targeted Troyzan, leaving Sarah as the swing vote. Tai tried to persuade Sarah to force a tie and allow him to compete against Troyzan in a fire-making challenge, but Sarah ultimately sided with Brad and Troyzan and Tai was unanimously voted out.

Sarah received mixed reception at the Final Tribal Council. She was lauded for her strategic control and social flexibility, but condemned for using social relationships for strategic gain and her numerous betrayals. Sarah's strategic control throughout out the post-merge phase beat out Brad's dominance in Immunity Challenges and Troyzan's lack of evident gameplay and she was awarded the title of Sole Survivor in a 7-3-0 vote only losing Ozzy, Debbie, and Sierra's votes.

Voting History
In Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow, Sarah used a Vote Steal advantage on Tai, allowing her to cast an additional vote in Tai's place. In No Good Deed Goes Unpunished, Sarah used a Legacy Advantage, negating 3 votes against her. Also, Tai used a Hidden Immunity Idol, negating Sarah's vote against him.

Post-Survivor

 * At the Cagayan Reunion Show, Sarah announced that she was six months pregnant with her first child.
 * Sarah gave birth to her son, Knox Wade, on August 22, 2014.

Trivia

 * Sarah was one of two cops on the Aparri tribe, along with Tony Vlachos.
 * Sarah went the longest without attending a Tribal Council in.
 * Sarah is the only person named Sarah to make the merge, as Sarah Jones and Sarah Dawson were both eliminated pre-merge.
 * Sarah is the first female from original Aparri to be voted out.
 * Sarah lost 7.3 lbs. (3.3 kg) during her time on Cagayan.
 * During the Cagayan Reunion, host Jeff Probst mistakenly referred to Sarah's home state as Indiana instead of Iowa when addressing her. She did not correct him.
 * Both times she competed, Sarah's tribe won the first five tribal Immunity Challenges before attending her first Tribal Council on Day 16.
 * Sarah is the first person to use a Legacy Advantage and negate enough votes to cause their elimination.
 * Sarah is the eighth castaway to become the Sole Survivor without winning Individual Immunity, following Tina Wesson, Sandra Diaz-Twine, Yul Kwon, Earl Cole, Todd Herzog, Natalie White, and Tony. She would be followed by Ben Driebergen.
 * Sarah is the third female to defeat two males at the Final Tribal Council, following Natalie White and Sophie Clarke.
 * Sarah is tied with Natalie White and Kim Spradlin for the most jury votes for a woman, at 7.
 * Sarah is the first person to not win unanimously in a season with a 10-person jury. The other two winners from a season with a 10-person jury were Jeremy in Cambodia and Adam Klein in, both of whom received all 10 votes.
 * Sarah had the fewest confessionals for a person who had most confessionals in a single season, with 45 over the course of.
 * Sarah is the first winner of an all-returning player season to not stay on one tribe during the pre-merge phase.