If you wanted to outwit, outplay and outlast competitors in the wilderness, facing obstacles like brutal weather, exotic animals and the occasional sassy castaway, what lengths would you go to accomplish this?

Would you jump off a 30-foot cliff into a lake?

How about dressing up in a cocktail dress and eating worms out of a silver serving piece?

Or maybe even shaving your head?

Delta Delta Delta sorority house mom Penny Allen did all these things and more to try to get on her favorite reality show, “Survivor.”

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Allen has been watching the show from day one when the first season aired 10 years ago.

“I love the game,” Allen said. “It’s a fun show … it’s a strategy and it’s phenomenal.”

Since its beginning in 2000, Allen has always wanted to take part in “Survivor.” Allen loves the game so much that even the million-dollar prize is not worth as much to her as the title of “Survivor” would be. She would play the game, even if there wasn’t money involved. 

Allen was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 1991, but it doesn’t affect her ability to compete.

“It’s a scary, odd disease,” Allen said.

Allen said she was improperly treated for it, and as a result was taken off and put on antibiotics three times. At one time, she was on antibiotics for four years straight. It was because of this, her doctor warned her of serious problems that could arise.

“He scared me,” Allen said. “He said you’ll be bedridden or in a wheelchair.”

While this disease never actually leaves a person’s body, Allen said it became dormant for her in 2001. Suddenly her odds of even being able to compete on the show began to appear again. Twenty “Survivor” locations later, she still has high hopes.

“The tenacity just hangs in there,” Allen said. “I just keep trying.”

And Allen has done just that. She has mailed in or uploaded 19 videos and has gone to five open casting calls, all in the hopes of being one of the 20 castaways on the show. Each time she tries to find some creative way of auditioning.

“It’s hard to find something that somebody hasn’t already done,” Allen said. “They’ve seen it all. I’m sure they have.”

Allen has done some pretty crazy things to get on the show, like jumping off a cliff or dressing up in a black cocktail dress to eat worms out of a silver serving piece, which she thought was a witty way of devouring that delicacy. She even took on a man in a kneeling competition to use in an audition tape. Kneeling is more commonly known as the game of mercy.

But she said the craziest thing she did to try to get on the show was shaving her head. She did this at an open casting call at Nebraska Furniture Mart in Kansas City, Kan., in 2006.

She uploaded her most recent audition video to the “Survivor” Web site Sunday, in order to reach the midnight deadline. The main focus of her one-minute video was being a house mom to a sorority, because she thought there probably aren’t too many of them trying out for the show.

Out of 1,200-1,700 submissions, only 10 people were selected for online voting, and only one was chosen from that group to travel to Los Angeles. Even though Allen did not get picked, she will still submit a mail-in video, using the footage of her kneeling a man.

“It’s frustrating, but most things in life are,” Allen said.

Allen said while her immediate family is in disbelief at all her attempts of trying out, her friends, nieces and nephews have all been encouraging. The women of Delta DeltaDelta sorority have done the same.

Junior Katie Sellers said Allen trying out for “Survivor” as many times as she has is really cool and shows she is still outgoing and adventurous. She also said she could definitely see Allen competing.

“Penny’s the one who’s going to start the fire and get the food,” Sellers said. “And she’ll win the challenges.”

Sophomore Tracie Babbitt doesn’t really watch “Survivor” on a regular basis, but if Allen made the show, she said of course she would watch.

“I think she would do really good at it,” Babbitt said. “She always goes for what she wants.”

What Allen really wants is to see older women being picked to go on the show, and age, including hers, isn’t a sensitive subject for her to talk about.

“If you’re sensitive about something, you shouldn’t be trying out (for ‘Survivor’),” Allen said.

While most of the people on the show are in their 20s and 30s, Allen, who is 59-years old and still in good physical shape, said the show really needs an older woman competing.

"Come on, there's a lot of older women that can kick hind end," Allen said. "Pick one."<br/>Even though she hasn't been picked for "Survivor" yet, she said she will definitely keep trying out for the show.Even though she hasn't been picked for "Survivor" yet, she said she will definitely keep trying out for the show.
Even though she hasn’t been picked for “Survivor” yet, she said she will definitely keep trying out for the show.

"It continues on," Allen said. "I can't say ‘die' yet." <br/>