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Recent OSU graduate to spin the big wheel on Wheel of Fortune

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Jill Bowman
Jill Bowman, a native of Hutchinson, Kan., and a 2010 graduate of Oklahoma State University, will appear on the hit game show Wheel of Fortune on Friday, June 4.

Bowman graduated from OSU with a bachelor’s in elementary education and served on the executive committee of “America’s Greatest Homecoming Celebration” her junior and senior years. She is also a member of the OSU Alumni Association.

“I had always loved watching Wheel of Fortune with my family,” Bowman said. “I actually went to an open audition in Harrah last October as a stress reliever before Homecoming!”

After the open audition, Bowman and one hundred others were called back to Oklahoma City to participate in several more mock rounds of the game, which Bowman performed well in. In late December, she received the call she’d been waiting for.

“They told me I’d be on sometime in the next eighteen months,” Bowman said. “In February, they called again and said I had two weeks to get to L.A. to tape. The entire experience was amazing!”

Wheel of Fortune airs weekday nights at 6:30 p.m. on KOCO-5 in Oklahoma City, KJRH-2 in Tulsa and KAUZ-6 in Lawton. Tune in Friday to see how Bowman did spinning the big wheel.

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