Sarah Hopke Wins $1 Million on iWon.com
Million Dollar Prize Gives Sarah and Shawn Hopke the “Financial” Cushion They Need to Start a Family
(Irvington, NY, May 15, 2001) – When can winning $1 Million not come at the perfect time? When you're home sick with a stomach virus! That is exactly what happened to Sarah Hopke, 29 from Ronkonkoma, NY. Sarah was so sick that she could barely roll out of bed to answer the doorbell - but she was sure glad she did! When she opened the door, representatives from iWon.com and a camera crew from Inside Edition greeted her with the news - Sarah Hopke had become iWon’s latest $1 million winner!
Hopke, a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, has been married for six years to Shawn, a Systems Administrator at a computer hardware company. The two were high school sweethearts and began dating when Sarah asked Shawn to her Junior prom. Neither one of them has ever dated anyone else. Sarah and Shawn recently decided that they would like to have a child, but had determined that they would have to delay this plan for several years due to their current financial situation. Thanks to their new windfall, the happy couple can now immediately pursue their dream of starting a family.
When asked what she plans to do with the $1 million, Sarah stated, “We will now try to have a baby! I just can’t believe this happened to me!”
Sarah has been using iWon since August of 2000. She uses iWon to read the news, take the daily survey and play iWon Games. Her husband and his entire department at work use iWon everyday. In fact, when Sarah called to break the good news, Shawn had already collected his 100 entries for the day! “I am so shocked, I don’t even know what to say,” said Shawn Hopke. “This is just amazing!”
“We are thrilled to announce Sarah Hopke as iWon's 19th $1 Million Winner,” said Bill Daugherty, Founder and co-CEO of iWon. “Sarah has some exciting family plans for her winnings and we are very pleased to welcome her into iWon’s family of winners.”
About iWon
Launched in October 1999, iWon is the 5th most trafficked site on the Internet (Nielsen//NetRatings, March 2001). iWon also ranks as the most loyal portal on the Web, placing #1 in average days, pages and minutes spent per person (Media Metrix, March 2001). In addition, iWon was voted #1 in User Satisfaction among the leading search engines and portals for three consecutive quarters (NPD Search and Portal Tracking Study, June 2000, November 2000 and March 2001). iWon provides world-class search and content from more than 120 leading partners such as Associated Press, CBS, Inktomi, Standard & Poor’s Comstock, Reuters, TheStreet.com, Travelocity, and WeatherNews Inc.
Additionally, iWon is the largest guaranteed cash giveaway on the Internet. iWon gives away $10,000 every weekday, $100,000 a month and the chance to win $25 million on Tax Day. By simply using the site to search the Web, check email, go shopping, read the news, or perform other regular Internet activities, iWon users earn entries into the weekday, weekend, monthly and annual cash giveaways. iWon Cash Points, like iWon entries, are accumulated for virtually everything users do on the site. Users can apply iWon Cash Points toward deep discounts in the iWon Rewards Store. To date, iWon has selected more than 240,000 winners and has given away more than $47 million in cash prizes.
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