Allison Grisso, Miss South Carolina USA 1983
Miss South Carolina USA competition is the pageant
that selects the representative for the state
South Carolina
in the
Miss USA pageant.
The pageant has been produced by RPM Productions since 1980.
Miriam Stevenson, South Carolina's
first
Miss USA, and the United States'
first
Miss Universe was also the first
Miss USA winner to have competed at
Miss
America. She was the first woman to have competed at
Miss America,
Miss USA
and
Miss Universe. RPM's first winner
was
Shawn Weatherly, who also won
Miss USA and went on to win
Miss Universe.
Four Miss South Carolina USAs have also held the
Miss South Carolina Teen USA
title and competed at
Miss Teen USA.
One has also competed at
Miss
America.
Miss South Carolina USA titleholders have also competed at two
other major international pagenats.
Gina
Tolleson, first runner-up at Miss USA 1990, went on to win the
Miss World crown that year, and Miss
South Carolina USA 2004,
Amanda
Pennekamp has also competed at the
Miss
Earth 2006 pageant where she made the top 16.
Results summary
- Winners: Miriam
Stevenson (1954), Shawn
Weatherly (1980), Lu Parker
(1994)
- 1st runners-up: Betty Cherry (1956), Vickie
Chesser (1970), Gina Tolleson (1990),
Amanda Pennekamp (2004)
- 2nd runners-up: Eva Engle (1969), Allison
Grisso (1983), Audra Wallace (1992)
- 3rd runner-up: Virginia Murray (1976), Lauren
Poppell (1999)
- Top 10: Maribeth Curry (1986), April Abel
(1988), Lisa Rabon (2000), Anna Hanks (2003), Lacie Lybrand (2006), Stephanie Smith
(2009)
- Top 11/12: Kelli Gosnell (1993), Ashley
Williams (2002)
- Top 15: Susan Anthony Day (1953), Sara Stone
(1955), Jean Spotts (1957), Patricia Ann Moss (1958), Cecelia Yoder
(1963), Vicki Harrison (1965), Susan Gordon (1972), Ashley Zais (2007), Jamie Hill (2008)
Winners
1 Age at the time of the Miss USA pageant
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