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At the Miss Dakota State pageant, Olson won the preliminary award for her performance of the operatic aria, "Quanda m'en vo." In an interview with KDLT, Olson discussed how she got into the world of pageantry. "It actually started my junior year of college. I was walking down the student union at SDSU and one of my good friends said, 'Hey, try out that pageant, you should do it!'" (Facebook/MissSouthDaktoa)