Steffensen, O’Bryan Win Preliminary Awards at Miss South Dakota Competition

June 3, 2023, Brookings, SD – Miss Railroad Junction, Payton Steffensen of Sioux Falls, and Miss Missouri River, Miranda O’Bryan of Martin, took home preliminary awards at the Miss South Dakota Competition Friday night.

Steffensen won the preliminary talent competition doing a musical theater/acro dance to “Don’t Lose Your Head” from the musical Six. The talent award is $1,000. Steffensen attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy Dance Theatre Conservatory. 
O’Bryan took the Preliminary Onstage Conversation award of $500, after answering a question about her community service initiative, Page Turners: Fall in Love with Reading. O’Bryan graduated from SDSU and works as a news anchor for KOTA Territory News/KEVN Black Hills FOX.

The competition continues tonight at 6:00 p.m. with the finals and the crowning of the 76th Miss South Dakota at the Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center at South Dakota State University in Brookings, SD.

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