The district valedictorian is Miss Rebecca Nezezon. She is the daughter of Dr. Joel Nezezon and Dr. Susan Bregman and the granddaughter of two St. Lawrence Central alumni. Nezezon is a member of the National Honor Society, Student Council, Tri-M Musical Honor Society, Senior Band, Spanish Club. She also serves as Class Treasurer for the class of 2023. Rebecca has received the NYSPHAA Scholar-Athlete award during every varsity season while competing in varsity swimming, varsity basketball, and varsity softball.

In addition, Nezezon was selected as the recipient of the Lisa Lane Swimming Award, and was recognized as an WWNY-TV Academic All-Star.

Her plans after graduation are to attend college majoring in Political Science and International Affairs. She has currently been accepted to Vassar College, The University of Washington and The Ohio State University, where she was awarded the National Buckeye Scholarship. Rebecca has not made her final acceptance decision at this time.

Nezezon ’s advice to upcoming students about reaching their goals or having academic successes would be: “Don’t allow others to interfere with your aspirations”.

When asked about other future goals and plans, she stated that she would like to grow a peach tree, and write a children’s book.

The district salutatorian is RyLee Daoust. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John and Marnie Daoust.

Daoust has received the NYSPHAA Scholar-Athlete award during every varsity season while competing in soccer, basketball, and softball. In addition she has earned the following Section Sports Awards: Soccer – First team All-Northern, League MVP and Second team All-Northern; Basketball – Second team All-Northern, First team All-Northern and Jan Reetz finalist; Softball – Second team All-Northern, First team All-Northern, First team All-Northern and All-State Third team.

She is also very active in many clubs such as; Student Council, National Honor Society, and Tri-M Music Honor Society. RyLee is the Vice President of the Tri-M Music Honor Society, and the Secretary of both the Student Council, and National Honor Society.

Daoust also serves as the Secretary for the Class of 2023.

As a result of her tireless dedication to her academics, Daoust has been awarded multiple Academic Achievement Awards for classroom performance, and the following college scholarships; Sage College, The Student Sage Award, Rochester Institute of Technology Computing Medal, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Rensselaer Medal.

Her advice to upcoming students about reaching their goals or having academic success would be: “If you want to have success and to do well, you have to be willing to put forth the effort.”

Daoust plans after graduation are to attend Syracuse University majoring in Sports Analytics. She hopes to become a sports statistician.