Florida Smokeshow Stripped Of "Miss Florida" Crown ...Her Sister (and UF Cheerleader) Steps In And Wins It Right Back

Kmarko6/22/2015 7:10 PM

Gainesville - A University of Florida student — Mary Katherine Fechtel, 19, of Leesburg — will represent Florida in the Miss America 2016 pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Sept. 13 after winning the Miss Florida title Saturday night at the Mahaffey Theater in St. Petersburg.

Miss Florida Mary Katherine Fechtel, left, with her Sunshine Princess Elizabeth Shurley, a child she mentored during Miss Florida Week.

Fechtel’s older sister, Elizabeth, was named Miss Florida last year but then deprived of the crown due to a judge’s tabulation error.

Last year’s state pageant was bittersweet for the Fechtel family. MK’s sister, Elizabeth, 20, made international headlines after she was crowned Miss Florida but, because of a judge’s tabulation error, was dethroned five days later and named first runner-up instead.

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Ok first of all I don’t remember this original story, not sure if I blogged it back when it happened, but Miss Florida has gotta be kidding me with the bush league operation they’re running down there. A “judge’s tabulation error”? Like you just counted wrong? And called the poor girl up 5 days later and said oops, we ran out of fingers and toes, messed up and now give us your crown back? Fuck that. At that point you just eat your mistake, shred all the evidence and go about your lives. Fucking Florida, do something right for once.

But more important I think I’m just in shock that one family contains two sisters that are this hot. Like hot enough that one can win Miss Florida, have the crown taken away, then her sister just immediately wins it back.

Elizabeth, the original winner: