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January 8, 2002 Assistant
Coach, Ethan Zohn, Teaneck,
N.J. – His men’s soccer
team may have made a Cinderella run to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament
this year, but Knights’ assistant soccer coach Ethan
Zohn has made his own run to the Final Four of CBS’ Survivor Africa.
On Thursday, January 10th, Zohn, along with the other
three remaining members, will vie for the grand prize of $1,000,000, in the
popular primetime reality TV show’s final two-hour special beginning at 8 p.m. Zohn,
Fairleigh Dickinson’s assistant men’s and women’s soccer coach was one of
16 participants to compete for the title of Sole Survivor.
He and the other 15 cast members 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 will feature two final Immunity Challenges and two votes later, the
Final Two will face the Jury, which is comprised of their seven tribe mates who
were previously voted out of the tribe. The
Jury will ask questions and then choose who will be the Sole Survivor and win
the million-dollar prize. The show
is also being billed as featuring unresolved issues, new personal revelations
and other surprises. Zohn
is currently the overwhelming favorite to win the grand prize as the latest CBS
poll has him receiving 63.7 percent of the nearly 30,000 votes.
Tom Buchanan, a goat and cattle farmer, is a distant second with 16.47
percent, while Lex Van den Berghe, a marketing manger, is in third at 12.61
percent, and Kim Johnson, a retired teacher, is at 7.15 percent. “He
does have that star quality about him,” said Knights’ head men’s soccer
coach Seth Roland. “It’s all kind of exciting and pretty funny at the same
time. He took a good ribbing every
week throughout the season, but maybe through osmosis some of his survival
skills rubbed off on us,” joked Roland.
“Seriously, we’d all be very happy for him. He’s one of the nicest guys.” 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. The
Lexington, Massachusetts native 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 follow the show at www.cbs.com and
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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Fairleigh Dickinson assistant soccer coach Ethan Zohn survived the first vote on "Survivor Africa." Survivor
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