[2] Dial won the Miss Greater Carolina Teen 2010 title and competed for the Miss South Carolina Teen title on a platform of Juvenile Diabetes awareness and a vocal performance of "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going" from the musical Dreamgirls.
[8] She competed in the 2013 Miss South Carolina pageant as Miss Richland County with the platform "Type I and Type II Diabetes Mellitus" and a pop vocal performance in the talent portion of the competition.
[17][18] She entered the Miss South Carolina pageant at Columbia's Township Auditorium in June 2015 as one of 55 qualifiers for the state title.
[19][20][21] Dial's competition talent was a vocal performance of "I Believe", a song made famous by Fantasia Barrino.
[24] Her on-stage interview question was whether "Confederate memorabilia" should be removed from South Carolina State House grounds.
"[11][25] Dial won the competition on Saturday, June 27, 2015, when she received her crown from outgoing Miss South Carolina titleholder Lanie Hudson.
[26] Dial was South Carolina's representative at the Miss America 2016 pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in September 2015.
[28][29] In the televised finale on September 13, 2015, she sang Fantasia Barrino's "I Believe" during the talent portion of the competition.