Formation | 1951 |
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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.
Year | Name | Hometown | Age [notes 1] | Placement at Miss World America | Special awards at Miss World America | Notes |
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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 | ||||||
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