June 20, 2018

Seton Catholic Central, Plattsburgh, congratulates the class of 2018, and this year’s valedictorian, Caleb Moore, and salutatorian, Rachel Racette.

Valedictorian
Caleb Moore has achieved a 99.81 average to earn the valedictorian honors. The son of Stephanie and Robert Moore, Caleb has participated in Model United Nations, Key Club, Yearbook Club, Science Club, Future Business Leaders of America, National Junior Honor Society, National Honor Society, Student Council and our Student Leadership Team. He has volunteered his time at North Country Honor Flight and Reach Work Camp, and he has gone on the Mission of Hope to Nicaragua.

Throughout high school, he ran as part of the Seton cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field teams, captaining all three teams for multiple seasons.

Caleb’s awards and accomplishments include CVAC John J. Herbert All-Academic Team for the fall 2017 sports season; All-State First Team for cross country; Shawn Maille Award for competing in all three sports seasons during each of his four years in high school; high honor roll all four years of high school; PSAT National Merit Qualifier; Student Council President during his senior year; and Model U.N. vice president during his senior year.

Taking his whole running career together, Caleb is a 10-time Section VII Champion, a 13-time CVAC All-Star, a 12-time State Qualifier, 5-time State Meet medal winner and one-time Federation Meet medal winner. Most recently, he finished sixth in the Division II 3,200-meter race at the NYSPHSAA track and field championships.

Caleb plans to attend Harvard University this fall, where he plans to study mechanical engineering and continue his cross-country and track career.

Salutatorian
Rachel Racette achieved an average of 97.03 to earn the salutatorian honors. The daughter of Hank Racette, Rachel has participated in Key Club, National Honor Society, Yearbook Club, the Student Leadership Team and Model United Nations.

She has also played on the Seton soccer, basketball and tennis teams. Her volunteer work includes helping with the North Country Honor Flight.

Rachel’s awards and accomplishments include CVAC John J. Herbert All-Academic Team for the fall 2017 sports season; high honor roll all four years of high school; National Honor Society President during her senior year; Student Council Vice President during her senior year; MVAC All-Star Honorable Mention for girls' basketball; and co-captain of the 2017-2018 Section VII Class C Girls' Basketball Championship Team.

Rachel plans to attend Colgate University this fall, where she plans to study economics.