Miss South Carolina World
| Formation | 1951 |
|---|---|
| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Fayetteville, NC[1] |
| Location | |
Membership | Miss World America (1951–present) |
Official language | English |
State Director | Kathy Keefe Jensen |
| Website | Official Website |
The Miss South Carolina World competition is a beauty pageant that selects the representative for South Carolina in the Miss World America pageant.[2][3]
The current Miss South Carolina World is Megan Gordon of North Augusta.
Winners[edit]
- Color key
- Declared as Winner/Ended as Miss World America
- Ended as runner-up
- Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
- Ended as special awards winner
- Ended as Miss USA
| Year | Name | Hometown | Age [notes 1] |
Placement at Miss World America | Special awards at Miss World America | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Megan Gordon[4] | North Augusta | 27 | 1st Runner-Up | Top Interview | Previously Miss South Carolina 2017 and Top 5 finalist at Miss USA 2017. |
| 2019 | Megan Gordon[4] | North Augusta | 26 | 1st Runner-Up | Previously Miss South Carolina 2017 and Top 5 finalist at Miss USA 2017. | |
| 2018 | did not compete | |||||
| 2017 | ||||||
| 2016 | ||||||
| 2015 | Dawn Logg | Myrtle Beach | 22 | |||
| Miss South Carolina United States 2014 | ||||||
| 2014 | Mae-Ann Webb | 1st Runner-Up | ||||
| Miss South Carolina World | ||||||
| 2013 | No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 2006 to 2013. | |||||
| 2012 | ||||||
| 2011 | ||||||
| 2010 | ||||||
| 2009 | ||||||
| 2008 | ||||||
| 2007 | ||||||
| 2006 | ||||||
| 2005 | No known representatives from South Carolina from 2003 to 2005. | |||||
| 2004 | ||||||
| 2003 | ||||||
| 2002 | No titleholders as Miss World America was designated from 1995 to 2002. | |||||
| 2001 | ||||||
| 2000 | ||||||
| 1999 | ||||||
| 1998 | ||||||
| 1997 | ||||||
| 1996 | ||||||
| 1995 | ||||||
| 1994 | Michelle Pitts | |||||
| 1993 | Audra Yolanda Wallace | 2nd Runner-Up | ||||
| 1992 | Reid Swofford | |||||
| Miss South Carolina USA 1981-1991 | ||||||
| 1991 | Traci Rufty | Columbia | 21 | |||
| 1990 | Gina Tolleson[5] | Spartanburg[5] | 20[5] | Miss World USA 1990[6] | Later won Miss World 1990. | |
| 1989 | Angela Shuler | Rock Hill | 21 | Previously Miss South Carolina Teen USA 1986 | ||
| 1988 | April Abel[7] | Johnston | 20 | Top 10 | ||
| 1987 | Elizabeth Woodard[8] | Aiken[8] | 21 | Previously Miss South Carolina Teen USA 1983 | ||
| 1986 | Maribeth Curry[9] | Mauldin[10] | 20 | Top 10 | ||
| 1985 | Ann Margarete Hughes | Charleston | ||||
| 1984 | Ginger Greer | Lugoff | ||||
| 1983 | Allison Grisso[11] | Columbia[11] | 21[11] | 2nd Runner-Up | ||
| 1982 | Margo Wood | Columbia | ||||
| 1981 | Zade Turner[12] | Myrtle Beach | 21 | |||
| Miss South Carolina World | ||||||
| 1980 | Donna Rice | Top 15 | ||||
| 1979 | Lynn Boyles | |||||
| 1978 | Cynthia Wynn | Top 8 | ||||
| 1977 | Teresia Ann Woods | |||||
| 1976 | Sandra Rene Wilson | |||||
| 1975 | Vicki Corley | |||||
| 1974 | Donna Lynn McFarland | |||||
| 1973 | Claudie Ruth Bell | Top 16 | ||||
| 1972 | Faye M. Breland | Top 7 | ||||
| 1971 | Debra Carol Cooper | Top 18 | ||||
| 1970 | Eleanor Susan Gordon | Rock Hill | Later Miss South Carolina USA 1972 and Top 12 semi-finalist at Miss USA 1972. | |||
| 1969 | Carolyn Vernon | |||||
| 1968 | did not compete | |||||
| 1967 | Penny Rebecca Mikell | Top 15 | ||||
| 1966 | Linda Parrish | |||||
| 1965 | Victoria "Vicky" Elizabeth Johnson | |||||
| 1964 | Nancy Sanders | Top 15 | ||||
| 1963 | Cecelia McBride Yoder | Previously Miss South Carolina USA 1963 and Top 15 semi-finalist at Miss USA 1963. | ||||
| 1962 | Nancy Ann Harrison | |||||
| 1961 | Judy Austin | Competed as South Carolina | ||||
| Rita Souther | Spartanburg | Competed as Spartanburg, South Carolina. | ||||
| 1960 | Dianne Taff | |||||
| 1959 | No known representatives from South Carolina in 1958 & 1959. | |||||
| 1958 | ||||||
| Miss South Carolina USA 1953-1957 | ||||||
| 1957 | Jean Spotts | Top 15 | ||||
| 1956 | Betty Lane Cherry | Columbia | 20 | Miss World USA 1956 | 1st Runner-Up at Miss World 1956. | |
| 1955 | Sara Stone | Top 15 | ||||
| 1954 | Miriam Stevenson | Winnsboro | 21 | Miss USA 1954 | Later won Miss Universe 1954, as USA. | |
| 1953 | Mary Kemp Griffin | Myrtle Beach | 23 | Miss World USA 1953 | She competed as Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, then represented the US at Miss World 1953, and finished as 5th Runner-Up. | |
| Susan Anthony Day | Top 20 | Competed as South Carolina. | ||||
| Miss South Carolina World | ||||||
| 1952 | No known representatives from South Carolina in 1951 & 1952. | |||||
| 1951 | ||||||
- Notes to table
- ^ Age at the time of the Miss World America pageant
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Important Information". Miss World South Carolina. 2019-04-15. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- ^ "Miss World USA Pageant". Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2014-12-19.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ The American representatives to Miss World 1978-1994
- ^ a b "Miss World America - South Carolina".
- ^ a b c "Spartanburg woman wins state beauty title". The Greenville News. 5 December 1989 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Miss Michigan chosen Miss USA". The Gettysburg Times. 3 March 1990. p. 1.
- ^ "Miss South Carolina USA". The Index-Journal. 9 November 1987 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b "Aiken student named Miss South Carolina". 1 December 1986. p. 3B – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Norman, Diane (1986-03-23). "Golden Thread is Common Theme for Miss South Carolina USA". Herald-Journal.
- ^ The Associated Press (16 February 1986). "Mauldin Teen Crowned Miss South Carolina-USA". The Greenville News – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c "Miss SC USA Crowned". The Index-Journals. 7 February 1983. p. 10 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Miss South Carolina-USA likes Baryshnikov". The Rock Hill Herald. 1981-02-07.