User blog comment:Crazybone5000/CHARACTER SUBMISSIONS!/@comment-33868704-20171217224533

Name: Atara Slaby

Age: 24

Hometown: Santa Barbara, California

Occupation: Olympic Rower

Strategy: Atara is very disciplined, and has always known she has to work hard to succeed in life. She grew up in a poorer family, at least for her area, and she put in effort, dedication, and passion into her dream of becoming an Olympic athlete. She joined crew in high school, and there she learned how to work with a team. Atara's strategy going into the game is to be useful around camp for the pre-merge. She will help as much as she can around camp and will keep morale up; however, she won't reveal the full extent of her physicality unless necessary. She wants to make a few close allies before the merge that she can trust. She will try to downplay her skills and fall into the background until she must start fighting. Then she plans to use the bonds she's made and her physicality to advance to the end of the game and get the jury votes by making a few big moves and winning several Immunities. She's worried that she might be threatening to others after the swap/merge, so playing down her skills and making friends with everyone is her way of trying to combat that.

Confessional:

"Being a rower, every moment out on the sea you have to trust your team. You have to work together to succeed; you all have to stay in rhythm and you all have to support one another. I think that living that experience every day of my life will help me in this game, you know? I can help keep together my tribe and I can help us do well in the early parts of the game. My looks are pretty deceptive; I don't look that physical, but I could beat any guy out here arm wrestling. That's what crew does for ya. I can't let everyone out here know that I can cream most of them at the challenges, though. I need to keep that under wraps, you know? I can't have a big target on my back. That's what I'm worried about most in this game; being targeted for being a strong competitor. But I know I can get past that, and thrive in this game that I love. If I can make the olympic crew team, I can succeed at Survivor. That's the damn truth!"