University of Wisconsin-Madison junior Julia Sprangers is scheduled to appear on “Jeopardy!” Monday after she flew to the game show’s home in Los Angeles from Spain, where she is studying abroad for the semester, according to The Wisconsin State Journal.
Sprangers, who graduated as valedictorian from Oshkosh West High School, flew from her temporary home in Granada, Spain to be a contestant on the show in February. She is currently an economics and spanish major at UW-Madison.
“It was just surreal to me that this actually happened,” Sprangers said to The Wisconsin State Journal, adding meeting Alex Trebek was a “goosebump moment.”
The episode in which Sprangers is a contestant will air in Madison May 6 at 4:30 p.m. on Channel 15. The Badger, who has since flown back to Europe, will not watch the episode air. She told The Wisconsin State Journal she plans to watch the episode air when she returns home later this month.
