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| Formation | 1923 |
|---|---|
| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Columbia |
| Location | |
Membership | Miss America |
Official language | English |
Key people | Ashley Byrd Chaz Ellis Erin Gambrell |
| Website | Official website |
The Miss South Carolina competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of South Carolina in the Miss America pageant. The pageant was first held in Myrtle Beach and moved to Greenville starting in 1958 and remained in that city until the 1990s. Spartanburg hosted the pageant in a few different venues until new leadership took over the organization and moved the pageant to Columbia, SC in 2011. The pageant was televised since the 1960s until the 1998 pageant. Televising was resumed with the 2000 pageant through 2006. The pageant returned to television in 2014.[1]
Two South Carolina women have become Miss America; Marian McKnight of Manning in 1957 and Kimberly Aiken of Columbia in 1994. Six more have been first runner-up at the national competition and another thirteen have placed in the Top Ten. The Miss South Carolina organization is the leading state pageant in the nation in scholarship money raised for young women- surpassing many much larger states.
Davis Wash of Greenville was crowned Miss South Carolina 2024 on June 29, 2024, at Township Auditorium in Columbia, South Carolina. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2025.
- ^ "The Miss South Carolina Pageant returns to television June 28, 2014". Miss South Carolina. April 2, 2014. Retrieved July 24, 2015.