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.

[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.