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Ethan Zohn (born November 12, 1973, Lexington, Massachusetts) is an American reality television series contestant who won $1,000,000 on Survivor: Africa, the third season of the reality TV series Survivor. Zohn also appeared on the All-Stars edition of the show. After winning Survivor he co-founded Grassroot Soccer,[1] which leverages soccer in order to raise money and awareness to fight HIV/AIDS. On August 20, 2008, he began a 500-mile soccer dribble from Foxboro, Massachusetts to Washington, D.C. for that cause.[2]
[edit] SoccerZohn was a soccer goalkeeper at Vassar College, and played professionally for the Hawaii Tsunami and Cape Cod Crusaders of the United Soccer Leagues and in Zimbabwe for Highlanders Football Club. He parlayed his victory on Survivor: Africa by donating some of his $1,000,000 first prize money to starting Grassroot Soccer, an organization whose goal is to "mobilize the global soccer community to combat the AIDS epidemic in Africa". Shortly after winning Survivor Africa, Ethan was hired by ESPN to serve as a sideline reporter for the US National Team's matches in the 2002 FIFA World Cup. In 2005, Zohn began to co-host the Metro Soccer Report (later renamed MSG Soccer Report) on the MSG Network, a weekly show dedicated to Red Bull New York (formerly MetroStars) of Major League Soccer. As of April 2006, Zohn hosts FC Fox on the Fox Soccer Channel [edit] AwardsFor his combined humanitarian efforts to spread HIV education throughout Africa via soccer teams for youth and young adults, Zohn received the Courage of Conscience Award from The Peace Abbey in Sherborn, Massachusetts.[3] [edit] Survivor: AfricaAs part of the Boran tribe, Zohn did not become an immediate target in the game, he was seen as a strong player who could potentially help to win many tribal immunities. When his tribe lost two back-to-back immunity challenges, he joined the majority to vote off Diane Ogden and Jessie Camacho in Episodes 1 and 2. Over the next few days, Ethan would form a long-term alliance with Lex van den Berghe and Tom Buchanan from his Boran tribe. But a twist in episode 5 of the game saw both of Zohn's alliance members switch from Boran to the Samburu tribe, leaving Ethan alone with old Boran members Kim Johnson and Clarence Black. Two of the new Boran members from the Samburu tribe, Teresa Cooper and Frank Garrison, had an old misunderstanding with younger old-Samburu member Silas Gaither. So, in episode 5, a consensus was reached in which Ethan's tribe threw the immunity challenge in order to vote out the unpopular Silas. Both of Ethan's alliance members Tom and van den Berghe remained safe on the Samburu tribe, carrying all three into the merge. Zohn's alliance soon began to control the game, with other members Kim Johnson and Kelly Goldsmith, all from the original Boran. They immediately targeted old-Boran member Clarence Black due to his physical strength and he was voted out. But, unbeknownst to Lex, he had received another vote at tribal council, who he believed had come from Kelly, but which actually came from Teresa. This led Lex on a witch-hunt against Kelly which almost led to the demise of Ethan's alliance when Kelly possessed the power with the other four ex-Samburu members, Teresa, Frank, Kim Powers and Brandon Quinton. But at the last minute, Brandon switched his vote, saving van den Berghe, and voting out Kelly. But this move came back to haunt Brandon, when Ethan's alliance saw him as untrustworthy and voted him out at the next tribal council. Zohn, van den Berghe, Tom and Kim Johnson regained control of the game, outing previous Samburu members Frank, Kim Powers and Teresa in the next three tribal councils, carrying them into the Final 4. At the Final 4 immunity challenge, Kim Johnson, the next target to be voted out, won immunity, leading to the alliance having to resort to voting one of their own out. Ethan joined Lex and Kim Johnson in voting out Tom, carrying them into the Final 3. However, the Final 4 immunity challenge contained some controversy, which you can read about here. At the Final 3 immunity challenge, older tribe member Kim Johnson outlasted the two young, fit men to win immunity in an endurance challenge. With Johnson holding the power to choose who she would sit next to in the Final 2, she chose Zohn, believing that she could not win against either van den Berghe or Zohn and she thought Zohn deserved the money more than van den Berghe did. In the end, Zohn beat out Kim Johnson in a 5-2 vote to become the Sole Survivor, gaining the votes of Kelly Goldsmith, Frank Garrison, Teresa Cooper, Tom Buchanan and Lex ven den Berghe. [edit] Survivor: All-StarsZohn was invited to participate in Survivor: All-Stars, which he gladly accepted. Originally part of the Saboga tribe, Zohn was immediately targeted as a previous winner, along with Survivor: The Australian Outback winner Tina Wesson. When Saboga lost immunity, the rest of the tribe decided to vote out Tina first, needing Zohn's strength to win future challenges. When Saboga lost immunity once again, Zohn was spared once more over physical liability Rudy Boesch, who had hurt his ankle previously. In episode 5, Zohn and the rest of the Saboga tribe were disbanded after losing a challenge. Zohn and Jerri Manthey joined the Mogo Mogo tribe, while Jenna Lewis and Rupert Boneham joined Chapera. Later in that episode, Zohn joined the rest of his new tribe to vote out Survivor: Borneo winner Richard Hatch. In episode 7, Zohn was on the outs when the alliance of Manthey, Lex van den Berghe, and Shii Ann Huang left him out in their decision to vote out Colby Donaldson. Zohn was shocked at the decision, feeling betrayed by old Survivor: Africa alliance member van den Berghe. In episode 8, Mogo Mogo lost immunity once again, and Zohn, the last former winner, was voted out in 11th Place overall, by a vote of 4-1. He was the most successful of the four previous winners who competed on All-Stars, lasting longer than Wesson, Hatch and Jenna Morasca. [edit] EZ Crunch Bowl inventionZohn invented a cereal bowl that is claimed to keep breakfast cereal "crunchy" and not soggy. Its design keeps the cereal in a shallow end of the bowl and the milk in a deeper end of the bowl. He pitched his invention on the television show PitchMen in episode 11, which aired on Discovery Channel on June 24, 2009. The bowl was picked by the show's co-stars, Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan, for manufacturing and marketing by Telebrands. The EZ Crunch Bowl was sent to Telebrands product engineers for improvement before being made available to the public.[4] [edit] Personal lifeOn April 30, 2009, Zohn was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer called CD20-positive Hodgkin's lymphoma. He was diagnosed after experiencing night sweats and strange itching. He started chemotherapy in May 2009.[5] On September 14, 2009, he disclosed that after three months of intensive chemotherapy, his cancer has returned. He will be undergoing a new treatment, including a stem-cell transplant, to battle the rare form of Hodgkin's disease.[6] Zohn currently resides in Norwich, Vermont, where he works at Grassroot Soccer United. [edit] Trivia
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