Sunday, February 15, 2009
Sean Sich and his wife, Beth, were having breakfast at their hotel in Hawaii last August when Sean offered a rhetorical observation.
“I can’t imagine this vacation getting any better,’ he said.
Well, it did.
After breakfast, Sich and his wife went up to their room, where he had left his cell phone to charge. There was one new message: a representative from “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?” telling him he had been selected to be a contestant.
Sich, of Youngstown, will compete on the popular quiz show Thursday and Friday. The show airs at 4 p.m. on WKBN-TV 27.
The 28-year-old Sich is a software tester for Notify Technology in Canfield, and is also a debate team coach at Poland Seminary High School.
The 1998 graduate of Austintown Fitch High is married to the former Beth Hudach of Boardman. He is a graduate of Youngstown State University.
Sich has always toyed with the notion of trying out for a game show. “My wife says I have a great memory for trivia,” he said. “I can’t tell you what I had for breakfast, but I will remember random things that were said on ‘Seinfeld’. I pick up info on strange things that have nothing to do with anything, but I will often miss the big picture.”
Read the full story Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.