Mary Zheng started Survivor 48 buried on the wrong side of the numbers, drawn onto a Vula tribe that kept finding itself back at Tribal Council. Surviving that early hole at all took grit, and she scrapped her way out of it and into the merge.
Once the tribes came together she kept climbing, outlasting more than half the cast before her game ran out in seventh. For a player who started the season on the ropes, reaching the jury phase was a real testament to how hard she fought to stay in it.












