Denton, Texas Woman Named Grand Prize Winner in Lycos Model Search 2000 Competition During Star-Studded International Fashion Awards Gala in New York City.Business/Technology Editors WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 28, 2000 Laura Carter Laura Carter is a multi-instrumentalist musician from Athens, GA. She is more notably in the indie rock band Elf Power, but has performed with a number of bands within the Elephant Six Collective, such as The Gerbils, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Dixie Blood Moustache. is Chosen From Thousands of Online Entries, Winning $50,000 Terra Lycos (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :TRLY), the leading global Internet network today announced that the grand prize winner in its Lycos Model Search 2000 national contest is Laura Carter, age 19 of Denton, Texas Denton is a city in the United States and the county seat of Denton County, Texas. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, the city population was 80,537, making it the eleventh largest city in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. , receiving $50,000. Lycos Model Search 2000, located at http://modelsearch.lycos.com, a first of its kind online search, gave everyday people a chance to "be discovered" while Internet users worldwide voted on contestants' photos. From June 28 through October 12, more than 6,000 contestants submitted photos online and more than 50 million votes were cast by Lycos users all over the world. Carter was introduced by international supermodel and two-time Sports Illustrated Sports Illustrated is the largest weekly American sports magazine owned by media conglomerate Time Warner. It has over 3 million subscribers and is read by 23 million adults each week, including over 18 million men, 19% of the adult males in the country. cover girl Valeria Mazza Valeria Raquel Mazza (born February 17, 1972) is an Argentine fashion supermodel. She was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, and discovered when she was only 16 years old by hairstylist Roberto Giordano. at The Michael Awards for the Fashion Industry, a charitable black-tie gala featuring supermodels and celebrities from around the world to benefit the National Children's Leukemia Foundation, at the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Hilton Hotel last night. Following her introduction at The Michael Awards, Carter received a check for $50,000. Carter, a business marketing major at the University of North Texas, plans to use a portion of her cash prize to pay off her student loans. Carter, who has been modeling part-time for the past three years, hopes winning Lycos Model Search 2000 will jump-start her professional modeling career as well. In addition to the grand prize winner, five other contestants throughout the U.S. each received checks for $10,000 as finalists in Lycos Model Search 2000. "I'm thrilled with the attention I've already received from winning Lycos Model Search 2000," said Laura Carter. "I learned about the contest when I was checking out modeling information on Lycos and saw the Model Search contest. I thought it would be fun to enter but never thought so many people would vote for me. I want to sincerely thank Lycos for this incredible opportunity." Carter was wearing an Alfred Fiandaca gown designed exclusively for her appearance at The Michael Awards. She is scheduled to be interviewed by Cosmopolitan, Mademoiselle, Elle and Fashion Wire Daily today in New York Today in New York is WNBC-TV's pre-Today newscast, also post-Today on weekends, airing from 5 AM to 7 AM weekdays with the local news cut ins being branded as such. City. About Terra Lycos Terra Lycos is a new global Internet network operating in 40 countries in 19 languages, reaching 91 million unique monthly visitors worldwide. Created by the combination of Terra Networks, S.A., and Lycos, Inc., in October 2000, Terra Lycos is one of the most popular Internet networks in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America and is the number three Internet access provider See ISP. (networking, company) Internet Access Provider - (IAP) A company or other origanisation which provides access to the Internet to businesses and/or consumers. in the world. The Terra Lycos network of sites includes Lycos.com, Terra.com, AnimationExpress.com, Angelfire.com, ATuHora.com, Gamesville.com, HotBot.com, htmlGEAR.com, Invertia.com, Lycos Communications, Lycos Zone, Matchmaker.com, Quote.com, Rumbo.com, Sonique, Tripod.com, Webmonkey.com, WhoWhere.com and Wired News (Wired.com). The company's corporate headquarters is Barcelona, Spain and operating headquarters is Waltham, Mass. (c)2000 Lycos, Inc. - Lycos(R)is a registered trademark of Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . All other trademarks or service marks mentioned herein are those of Lycos or their respective owners. 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