When Jill Edmonson went to California for spring break, she didn't expect to be the next contestant on "The Price Is Right."

But the marketing junior became the second University of Arizona student this year to win a car on the game show.

"It was fate that I got on," she said.

Yesterday, Edmonson and more than 45 friends watched the episode at Dirtbag's, 1800 E. Speedway Blvd. Everyone had their eyes focused on the bar's televisions as Edmonson played the "Ten Chances" game and won a 1996 Ford Probe.

In the game, Edmonson got 10 chances to guess the correct price of a mixer, a love seat and the car from the scrambled numbers of the items' real prices.

It is fast becoming a trend for UA students to appear on "The Price Is Right." In the fall, residents of Kaibab-Huachuca and La Paz Residence Halls went to the show, and one Kaibab resident won a Dodge Neon.

Coronado Hall followed suit in January, sending 42 students to the show. One of them, media arts freshman Biray Alsac, won a bracelet and made it on stage, but missed a chance to go to New York City.

Alsac played "Squeeze Play" for the trip, but guessed the wrong price.

Undergraduate Sen. Maile Weigele, a UA exercise and sports sciences junior at the Dirtbag's party, said it is because of Edmonson's personality that stuff like this happens to her.

Edmonson said she was selected to be on the show because the producer liked her pushy attitude.

"Random things like this happen to her because that's the way her mind is," Weigele said.

Alsac said she decided to go on the trip because she watched the show since she was a kid and wanted to learn about all the things that go on behind the scenes.

"I thought it would be kind of cool to see how it actually worked," she said. "They have a strict schedule."

She said she relied heavily on the UA crowd present in the studio to help her make her $1,406 bid on the bracelet.

Although Alsac and Edmonson both got to meet Bob Barker, the show's host, they came away with different impressions.

"He's getting old," Alsac said, "it seemed like he was bored."

Edmonson said, "Bob was really nice, but he got frustrated with me because I did not understand how to play the game. I haven't watched the show in about five years."

Edmonson also said Barker's makeup was really thick.

She would not say what she plans to do with her car, because she has not received it yet. The show has rules about winning contestants giving their prizes away, she said.

Prizes are supposed to be sent to winners within 90 days of the show's air date. Alsac is still waiting for her bracelet.

"They take forever to give it out," she said.

Dirtbag's opened an hour early yesterday morning to accommodate the students who came to watch the show.

Morgan Ringwald, a Dirtbag's bartender, said yesterday's event was unusual.

"We always get people in here for lunch, but never this early to drink on a Thursday morning," he said.