Gretchen Cordy

Gretchen Cordy is a contestant from.

Profile
Gretchen Cordy was born February 7, 1962, in NYC. She attended Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. For six years, Gretchen was a survival instructor for the US Air Force. There, Gretchen taught pilots and crewman who to survive the elements, by building shelters, fires, finding water, and signaling for help. Gretchen married her husband Dale in 1986. She moved to Clarksville, Tennessee, to start a family. In early 2000, Gretchen auditioned to be on a new reality-based show called 'Survivor', and was accepted. At the time, Gretchen worked part-time as a pre-school… More teacher. Gretchen has two children, Ava and Eli, and husband of eighteen years, Dale. On weekends, Gretchen enjoys taking her family camping in the Hoh Rain Forest in Washington State. Gretchen Cordy currently is a co-host on a morning radio show.

Survivor: Borneo
From the beginning, Cordy was second-in-command in Pagong. Immediately following B.B. Andersen's elimination, Cordy took over the leadership position over the Pagong tribe. Her first move was to create a new shelter because the hut that B.B. made beforehand was deemed uncomfortable to sleep in. Despite some misunderstandings, Gretchen's leadership was more well-liked than B.B.'s abrasive personality.

After the Day 20 merge, the Tagi Alliance of Richard, Susan, Kelly and Rudy deemed her as a threat to win the game, and after a confusing 4-1-1-1-1-1-1 vote, Cordy was ousted from the game.

Trivia

 * Gretchen's luxury item was a Toothbrush.
 * Gretchen was the oldest female on Pagong.
 * Gretchen is the first female in Survivor to be blindsided.
 * In the Survivor: Borneo Reunion, they mistakenly listed her last name as Klug, which was actually the last name of her fellow Pagong tribemate, Joel.
 * Gretchen is the first contestant (and as such, also the first female contestant) to be voted out of a merged tribe.
 * Gretchen is the first contestant to be voted out by a plurality (i.e. less than half of the total counted votes).
 * She is one of 9 contestants to be voted out by a plurality. The others are: Bobby Mason, Brendan Synnott, Jill Behm, Francesca Hogi, Christine Shields Markoski, Elyse Umemoto, Leif Manson and Andrea Boehlke.
 * She was voted out with only 40% of the votes - the lowest percentage in Survivor history.
 * Gretchen is the first contestant from Tennessee.
 * Gretchen is the first contestant to be voted out first after the Merge and not be a part of the Jury.
 * Corinne Kaplan is the only other female to be voted out first at the Merge, and not be a Jury member.