Laura Byrne

Laura Byrne is a contestant from.

Profile
Retrieved from CBS.com

Laura is a personal trainer with experience in several career fields such as marital arts instruction, aerobics and military training.

She studied physiotherapy at the University of Vermont, during which time she was involved in several school related sports including a national title winning, women's lacrosse team. Health and fitness is something that has always been really important to Laura and she spends a lot of time in the gym. She managed to get work in a physiotherapist office where she got hands on experience with athletes. After a while she ventured into her own career path as training athletes. She's worked with a wide variety of people and even did consultations with budding marines.

She currently lives in Colorado and works as a personal trainer. Laura describes her usual day as getting up, getting dressed and hitting the gym for work and fun. Although she confesses that she loves going out and splurging on anything chocolate every so often. She describes herself and open-minded, confident and loyal, yet is also a person easily excited by things and can't wait to play Survivor!

Survivor
Laura entered the competition with little camping experience. However her physical fitness and training experience helped her with the challenges.

Despite her physical fitness, Pagong still lost 3/4 of the first four immunity challenges. Laura stayed with the way her tribe was voting for the first two votes, agreeing that Joey Gladstone and Marissa Cooper should be voted out. However after losing the fourth immunity challenge, her abrasiveness towards her tribe and frustration lead to several of the men on her tribe wanting to vote her out. At this point Veronica Fera and Gianna Martello were attempting to vote out Marvel Quaid but felt uneasy about talking to Laura. Unbeknowst to all three of them Marvel, Don and Lane had all banded together to vote out Laura. This lead to a 3-2-1 vote and sent Laura home.

Post-Survivor

 * After the show, Laura went on to offer a program on her training that helped people who wanted to be on Survivor. She said she doesn't regret going on the show at all.
 * On January 9, 2010, Laura attended Survivor ' s 10-year anniversary party.

Trivia

 * Her luxury item was a journal.
 * Laura is the first contestant from Colorado.
 * In an SurvivorOz interview, Laura revealed that she is fairly close friends with Charles Pike and convinced him to apply for the show.