Little Girl Wins $2,500 Prize

March 21, 2007 |21:29 | Activities | Gossips | Life of Dreams | Showbiz By : Vijanti

Thirteen-year-old Katharine Tuck's sneakers smell as bad as they look. Now, at least, the Utah seventh-grader can afford some new ones. Tuesday, she out-ranked six other children to win $2,500 in the 32nd annual National Odor-Eaters Rotten Sneaker Contest in Vermont, stinking up the joint with a pair of well-worn 1 1/2-year-old Nikes so noxious they had the judges wincing.

Katharine has played soccer and basketball in the sneakers, hiked in them, even waded into the Great Salt Lake, where they became infiltrated with brine shrimp. The contest, founded in 1975 as a sporting goods store promotion and now sponsored by the manufacturer of anti-foot odor products, pits children from around the nation who have won state-level competitions for the generally cruddy condition of their footwear.

Katharine and her father missed a connecting flight and had to drive part of the way to Vermont. Their luggage still hadn't arrived Tuesday. Her mother had the foresight to warn her not to ship her prized shoes in her checked baggage. Mercifully for airport security screeners, she didn't wear them, either, opting to carry them in her purse

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