CLIVE, IOWA (May 21, 2019) — A Davenport man closed out his college career by winning a $50,000 lottery prize.
“I actually bought the ticket on the day of my graduation,” Jonathan Labrador, 22, told officials on Monday as he claimed his “Frogger Level II” prize at the lottery’s regional office in Cedar Rapids. “It’s just unbelievable. There are no words to describe. It’s just like going on a rollercoaster in five seconds.”
Labrador, who graduated this month from St Ambrose University with a mechanical-engineering degree, bought his winning ticket at Kwik Shop, 303 W Locust St in Davenport. He said that after his family had a graduation dinner at a local restaurant, he and his father stopped at a convenience-store for fuel. While they were there, they also decided to buy some lottery scratch-tickets.
Labrador, who said he remembered playing a computer version of the game years ago, bought a Frogger ticket — the first he had ever played in that game. He said he scratched the ticket that night at the hotel with his parents, who had traveled to Davenport from Puerto Rico for his graduation weekend at St Ambrose.
“They were super-excited and really happy they could leave me well after going back,” he said.
Labrador won the sixth of 10 top prizes available in the game and called it “a perfect way to jump in.” He said that his lottery winnings will definitely help with his student loans.
Frogger Level II is a $5 scratch game that features three ways to win and overall-odds of 1 in 3.5. For more information about this game, and the number of prizes still available, visit ialottery.com.
About the Iowa Lottery: Since the lottery's start in 1985, its players have won more than $4.3 billion in prizes while the lottery has raised more than $1.9 billion for state programs. Today, lottery proceeds have three main purposes in Iowa. They provide support for our state's veterans and their families through the Iowa Veterans Trust Fund; help for a variety of significant projects through the state General Fund; and provide backing for the Vision Iowa program, which was implemented to create tourism-destinations and community-attractions in the state and build and repair schools.
