Cole was a castaway on Survivor: Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers and was a member of the Soko / Healer tribe for his work as a wilderness therapy guide for youth.
Cole started the game in a great position, being part of the majority alliance on the dominant Soko tribe. He was also in a flirtmance with Jessica and inadvertently helped Joe find a Hidden Immunity Idol, later exposing that fact to the others. On Day 9, He was switched to the Yawa tribe with Dr. Mike and Dr. Jess. Jessica told him in confidence that she won an advantage, which he then blabbed to their non-allies Lauren and Ben. He started rubbing Lauren and Ben the wrong way with his eating habits and perceived selfishness. At one point, he fainted due to exhaustion.
Cole made it to the merge without going to Tribal Council and rejoined the Healers to form a majority alliance, along with Lauren and Ben. However, when it came time for Tribal, Ben and Lauren joined the others in blindsiding Jessica out of the game, which blindsided Cole, who was unaware that he himself was almost a target to go home. On Day 20, Ryan found the Idol and Chrissy pretended it was still up for grabs, which led Cole to hunt for it; this led the others into believing Cole found it. Cole continued to be a huge target to go home, but after he won Individual Immunity, Desi and Joe were targeted instead at the vote, due to Desi’s challenge dominance and Joe’s Idol finding abilities, leading Desi to go home and become juror 1.
Trying to salvage his own game, Cole voted for Joe and then Desi at the revote. Cole was unable to win the next Immunity, as Lauren narrowly defeated him, which put him in danger of being sent out of the game. He tried to rally the votes to send Ben home instead, but was unsuccessful as the votes were split between him and Mike. Mike used the Idol, negating JP and Chrissy’s vote, and Cole became the 9th person voted out of the game and the 2nd member of the jury on Day 24. At Final Tribal Council, he criticized the final 3 and how they played the game. Despite Chrissy revealing his surprisingly high ACT score, he voted for Ben, helping him become the Sole Survivor.
He has climbed the two tallest peaks in the Western Hemisphere – Denali and Acacongua. He was the youngest member of the original Soko tribe, and with Jessica and Dr. Mike, are the first castaways to win every pre-merge challenge. They, along with Randy Bailey from Gabon, hold the record for most consecutive challenge wins with 10. Cole was the only guy to win Individual Immunity during the season. The only other season where only one male won was all the way back in Survivor: Marquesas with Robert DeCanio (aka the reason Boston Rob wasn’t just called Rob). Cole lost 13.5 lbs during the season.
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