Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective
Miss South Dakota USA
Beauty pageant competition From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Remove ads
The Miss South Dakota USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of South Dakota in the Miss USA pageant. From 2002 until 2024, Minnesota-based Future Productions produced the pageant.[1] In 2025, KPC Productions became the new production company for the pageant.[2]
South Dakota has placed five times. One notable Miss South Dakota USA was Vanessa Short Bull (2000), one of the first Native Americans to compete at Miss USA. Short Bull was also Miss South Dakota 2002. South Dakota's best placement in the competition was Madison Nipe placing in the top five in 2018.
The current titleholder is Megan Hiykel of Brookings who was crowned on August 8, 2025 at the Franklin Center in Des Moines. She will represent South Dakota at the Miss USA 2025 pageant.
Remove ads
Gallery of titleholders
Jessica Albers, Miss South Dakota USA 2013 (pictured in 2015)
Charlie Buhler, Miss South Dakota 2008
Results summary
- Top 5: Madison Nipe (2018)
- Top 10/12: Debra Ann Brickley (1974), Madison McKeown (2016)
- Top 15/16: Helen Youngquist (1958), Caroline Pettey (2021)
South Dakota holds a record of 5 placements at Miss USA.
Winners
- Color key
- Declared as Winner
- Ended as runner-up
- Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
Remove ads
References
External links
Wikiwand - on
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Remove ads