Who Is Correy Hawk from Alone Season 7? What Happened

Spoiler note: this covers how his season 7 run ended.

Correy Hawk went into season 7, the "Million Dollar Challenge" edition filmed near the East Arm of Great Slave Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories, as a traditional bowyer, someone who builds primitive bows and arrows for a living rather than just using them. He was 30 at the time, from Plattsmouth, Nebraska.

His run ended early, at day 12, placing 9th, after a medical evacuation for a torn meniscus and a partially torn MCL. Full details are on his season 7 contestant page.

What happened on camera

Hawk's injury reportedly started small: he slipped on a rock while fishing and twisted his knee. He kept going for a while without treating it seriously, but fluid built up and the joint swelled significantly before the medical team pulled him. Season 7 was unusual in the franchise because the prize was tied to a fixed 100-day survival threshold rather than simply outlasting every other contestant, meaning the season could, in theory, have produced multiple winners or none. In the end, Roland Welker was the only contestant to reach day 100 and took the full $1,000,000 prize.

Detail	Correy Hawk
Season	7 (Great Slave Lake, NWT, Canada)
Age at filming	30
Hometown	Plattsmouth, Nebraska
Placement	9th
Days lasted	12
Reason for exit	Medical evacuation, torn meniscus and partial MCL tear

Life as a bowyer since the show

As of mid-2026, Hawk is reported to run Organic Archery, a business built around traditional longbows and wooden arrows, which he has operated since 2018 (spanning both before and after his time on the show). He continues to post archery content regularly and has appeared on outdoor-focused podcasts and interviews discussing bow building and traditional archery in detail. His profession going in (a specialist bowyer rather than a general bushcrafter) is part of why his early exit surprised some viewers, since the skill most associated with him was never really tested on camera before the injury forced him out.

The show did capture some of his archery work before the evacuation, and clips of him demonstrating bow and arrow technique in camp have circulated since the season aired, which is part of why he is remembered as much for his craft as for how his run ended. If you want to see how a bow and arrow setup typically performs across the franchise, our primitive bow and arrows gear page rounds up how that tool gets used season to season, even though the recorded gear list for Hawk's own season 7 run is incomplete in our data.

How his run fits the bigger picture

A 12-day run from a torn meniscus is a reminder that Alone eliminations are not always about hunger or cold. Physical injury from something as mundane as a wet rock can end a run just as fast as starvation, regardless of how skilled the contestant is with a knife or bow. Season 7's unusual fixed-threshold format also meant the rest of the field kept going well past where a typical elimination-style season would have crowned a winner, which makes Hawk's early exit stand out even more against a cast that, in the end, produced the longest single run in franchise history.

For the rest of that cast and how far they got, see the season 7 page, and our FAQ covers how medical evacuations are decided versus voluntary tap-outs.