Person standing in shallow water holding a baby in a carrier, accompanied by a young child. The baby is smiling, wearing a sun hat, while the young child is in a blue outfit and hat. The person is holding an umbrella to provide shade.

Sascha

Engine Room

Hi I am Sascha,

I was born in cairns, raised in noosa, lives on gold coast. I’m a professional firefighter married for 9 years. I have two kids a 6 year old boy and 2 year old girl. I have an animal problem and collect them in a little hobby farm.

I started paddling 2017 and have been on and off flicking between other sports and having my kids.

I have represented Australia in 4 sports a total of 9 (soon to be 10) times.

Still water rowing- 3 times and a silver and 4th at worlds, 8 Qld teams, 2 national gold medals among other results.

Bobsleigh- aus bobsleigh team, best result- 8th europa cup Austria

Surf boat rowing- australian team 4 times, 7qld teams and 3 Aussie gold and 1 silver at national champs and 2 world champs gold.

Outrigger- oc6: 1 Aussie team (soon to be 2), silver worlds Tahiti 2016, silver na wahine Molokai 2017 among other results since

I have been very lucky to have had some amazing experiences in sport but Molokai is my favourite event so far. I’m desperate to do it again and win with some amazing girls.