He won big North Carolina lottery jackpot. Now he’ll take his daughter to Disney World

A North Carolina man plans to take his daughter to Disney World with the $100,000 he won in a Powerball drawing on March 9.

Steven Coleman, from Fayetteville, realized he won when he was checking weekly tickets at a Circle V Mart, according to a news release from the North Carolina Education Lottery. As he looked at the Powerball ticket, he saw a message telling him to go to lottery headquarters.

“My daughter and I were heading out of the store when I stopped and thought, ‘wait a minute,’” Coleman told lottery officials. He checked again that the ticket was worth $100,000, signed it and headed home, the release said.

The numbers on Coleman’s $3 ticket matched four white balls and the red ball to win him $50,000, the release said. That prize was doubled because he had a Power Play ticket and the 2X multiplier was drawn, the release said.

”The odds of matching four white balls and the Powerball are 1 in 913,129,” the release said.

Coleman, a finance director, told lottery officials he ”started to hold on to” the ticket for several months before claiming the prize. But he went to the lottery headquarters on March 14 and took home $71,017 after federal and state tax withholdings, the release said.

Coleman’s daughter is “very excited” to go to Disney World, the release said.

“We’ll probably go this summer,” Coleman said.