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January 10, 2002 FDU
Assistant Soccer Coach, Ethan Zohn, Teaneck,
N.J. – Ethan
Zohn,
a Fairleigh Dickinson University assistant men's and women's soccer assistant
coach, outlasted 15 other contestants to win the $1,000,000 prize on the final
episode of "Survivor Africa" which aired Thursday night on CBS.
Zohn, who was tabbed the overwhelming favorite to capture the prize in a recent
CBS poll, ousted retired teacher Kim Johnson in a final vote broadcast live. The
Lexington, Massachusetts native had spent 39 days stranded in the Shaba National
Reserve, Kenya.
There the members, divided
into two tribes, were required to join together, forge alliances, develop and
live in a cooperative society, all while taking part in “challenges” for
rewards. Winners of the Challenges
were rewarded, while over the course of the 39-day expedition, others were voted
off the Reserve. The
final show featured two final Immunity Challenges and two votes later, the Final
Two faced the Jury, which was comprised of their seven tribe mates who were
previously voted out. The Jury asked questions and then chose who would be the Sole
Survivor and win the million-dollar prize. “Unbelievable,”
said Knights’ head women’s soccer coach Pete Gaglioti after watching
the final episode with other members of the athletics department at the Rothman
Center. “Unbelievable. We work
with a millionaire. We’re very happy for him.
It’s a great accomplishment and something we all knew he could pull
off. Now we’re hoping to host the
Ethan Zohn Classic next fall,” joked Gaglioti. Zohn
has served as an assistant men’s coach at Fairleigh Dickinson since 1998,
helping the Knights back-to-back NEC regular season and tournament titles, as
well as the program’s first trip to the NCAA Tournament where the Knights made
a remarkable run to the Elite Eight. Zohn
has also been an assistant coach for the Knights’ women’s soccer program
since its addition in 2000. Zohn
currently resides in New York City. He
is a 1996 graduate of Vassar College with a bachelor of arts degree in biology.
Zohn has also played professional soccer as a goalkeeper for the
Highlanders Football Club in Zimbabwe, the Cape Cod Crusaders and the Hawaii
Tsunami. In 1997 and 2001, he was a
member of the U.S. National Maccabiah Team. When Zohn isn’t on the
bench for the Knights or in net for a professional team, Zohn is an
aspiring inventor who has done freelance work since 1999 as a brand name
strategist/developer, responsible for creating names for newly invented
products. The 27-year old is a
vegetarian who has two brothers, Lenard and Lee. Interested
viewers can read more about Zohn at the Fairleigh Dickinson University
athletics web site by going to www.fdu.edu and
clicking on the athletics link.
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PROVOST'S
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Fairleigh Dickinson assistant soccer coach Ethan Zohn captured the grand prize of $1,000,000 on "Survivor Africa." |
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