PHS Salutatorian 2018 - Leah Smith

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Leah Smith has been selected as one of the two salutatorians of Plymouth High School class of 2018. Leah is the daughter of Tim and Sarah Smith. She is graduating with a cumulative weighted GPA of 4.16. Leah has held the role as the class president throughout her entire four years at Plymouth High school. She was also the PHS chapter president of the Business Professionals of America club her senior year, and she was active in the club as member her junior, sophomore and freshman year.

For all four years, Leah was also a proud member of the Pep Club, American Field Services Club, and Key Club, where she served as the Key Club’s vice president her senior year.  

Her course of study included 17 dual credit courses that earned her 51 college credits while attending Plymouth High School. She has been a proud member of the PHS National Honors Society since being inducted in May of her sophomore year.

Leah is a three-sport varsity athlete who has competed for all four years in volleyball and tennis where she held the role on both teams as captain during her senior year. She was captain of the swim and dive team her senior year after competing on the team since she was in tenth grade.

During her senior year, she was selected as a member of the Indiana High School Volleyball Coaches Association Academic All-State team. During Leah’s junior year she was named as an NLC Honorable Mention All-Conference for her performance on the PHS Swim and Dive team. 

In tennis, Leah earned NLC All-Conference recognition by winning the NLC Conference Tournament both her junior and senior year.  Just recently, Leah and her doubles partner were named to the ICGSA North/South All-Star Tennis Team, which is an honor bestowed on the top 24 seniors in the state.

In March, Leah was recognized at the Annual Academic Excellence Recognition Dinner for academically being in the top 5% of the class of 2018. This year in May she was also inducted into the Plymouth High School Academic Hall of Fame for her superior academic involvement in the Weidner School of Inquiry @PHS Social Studies program. Recipients of this award must have taken classes in the respective department for a minimum of six semesters and have a minimum of an “A” average. This year Leah was a Plymouth Athletic Booster Club Scholar Athlete Scholarship monthly winner and in May at the PHS Senior Awards assembly, she received the Dr. J. Kent Guild Mental Attitude Award.

Leah will be majoring in global health and Spanish on a pre-medicine track at DePauw University this fall. She hopes to one day become a doctor.


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