Miss South Dakota USA
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The Miss South Dakota USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of South Dakota in the Miss USA pageant. This state pageant is currently directed by Future Productions
South Dakota is one of the least successful states, having only placed twice and never having advanced past the Semi-finals. One notable Miss South Dakota USA was Vanessa Shortbull (2000), one of the first Native Americans to compete at Miss USA. Shortbull was also Miss South Dakota America 2002.
The Miss South Dakota USA 2006 pageant was held in Watertown, South Dakota in November 2005.
[edit] List of winners
- 2007 - Suzie Heffernan
- 2006 - Alexis LeVan
- 2005 - Jessica Fjerstad
- 2004 - Andrea Parliament
- 2003 - Jessica Lawrence
- 2002 - Sitania Syrovatka
- 2001 - Beth Lovro
- 2000 - Vanessa Shortbull
- 1999 - Shawna Gross
- 1998 - Lori O'Brien
- 1997 - Jamie Swenson
- 1996 - Caresa Winters
- 1995 - Jenny Snobeck
- 1994 - Tabetha Mauck
- 1993 - Kara Rovere
- 1992 - Shawn Christina Frerichs
- 1991 - Jillayne Fossum
- 1990 - Valerie Sejnoha
- 1989 - Nanette Enders
- 1988 - Sandi Lynn Fix
- 1987 - Jana Van Woudenberg
- 1986 - Lori Scumacher
- 1985 - Stacey Arnold
- 1984 - Donna Smith
- 1983 - Kelly Rosenbaum
- 1982 - Meaghan Marie North
- 1981 - Joan Abbott
- 1980 - Jane Schmidt
- 1979 - Noele de Saint Gall
- 1978 - Nadene Oppold
- 1977 - Ginger Thomson
- 1976 - Dorothy Westphal
- 1975 - Lanette Rabenberg
- 1974 - Debra Ann Brickley (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
- 1973 - Rebecca Bunkers
- 1972 - Kathleen Bakke
- 1971 - Sonia Hart
- 1970 - Cynthia Finley
- 1969 - Mary Bergen
- 1968 - Byrean Blacksmith
- 1967 - Patricia Marshall
- 1962-1966 - Did Not Compete
- 1961 - Sharon Hoffman
- 1960 - Patricia Klith
- 1959 - Jeannine Stratton
- 1958 - Helen Youngquist (Semi-finalist at Miss USA)
- 1957 - Gay Marshall
- 1956 - Did Not Compete
- 1955 - Phyllis Choquette
- 1954 - Barbara Ann Brown
- 1953 - Kathleen Herman
- 1952 - Marlene M. Rieb (withdrew)
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