Virginia football player wins $100000 playing lottery – The Daily Progress

Charles Davis, a cornerback on the Virginia football team, recently won $100,000 playing the Virginia Lottery.

Davis was returning from an early morning workout when he stopped to pick up coffee for his mother, Tiffany, at a 7-Eleven in his hometown of Ashburn. He played the lotterys Cash 5 game, selecting numbers on his ticket that his grandmother suggested.

The winning numbers for that drawing were 1-3-4-7-9.

I looked at the numbers on the website after the drawing and said, I won! he said.

Davis, an American Studies major at UVa, played defensive back and wide receiver at Broad Run High School in Ashburn. He then played a postgraduate season (2015) at Fork Union Military Academy for head coach John Shuman. Davis began his collegiate career at Nebraska, participating in the Cornhuskers spring practices in 2016 before transferring to Virginia.

He sat out last season due to NCAA transfer rules.

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