Sachs, a 3 point player, first represented Australia in the national wheelchair basketball squad at the 1989 FESPIC Games. She competed in the 1990 and 1994 Gold Cups, receiving a bronze medal in the latter event, and the 1994 FESPIC Games. Her first Paralympics was the 1996 Atlanta Games, where her team came fourth, and she won a bronze medal with her team at the 1998 Gold Cup. She won silver medals with her team at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Paralympics. She has played for the West Sydney Razorbacks and, most recently, the Stacks Goudkamp Bears (previously the North Sydney Bears).