At Weston High School they are known as the “Fab Four”. The reason that Cejay Colvin, Cory Tucker, Collin Shows, and Abel McBride have earned the designation is their prowess in FFA state and national competition. 

Since teaming up as freshman, they have won state honors every year including the 2024 CDE in Floriculture where they finished first overall. Now they can add being named as a National Silver Emblem Team, won in the National FFA Floriculture CDE that was held in Indianapolis, IN on October 24th.

Individually each came away with awards as well with Cory Tucker winning a gold medal, Abel McBride and Cejay Colvin earning silver medals and Collin Shows coming home with a bronze medal.  

“They were pretty infamous as soon as they walked into the contest, being the only all male team at the CDE and apparently the only one that had made it that far in several years,” said Weston FFA Director Derek Shields who also gave thanks to everyone who supported the team. 

“We would like to thank everyone who made monetary donations to help get us to the event in Indianapolis. We would like to thank Cathy Sonnier and Barbara Bailey of the Louisiana Floral Board for coming in and working with the team for a couple of long days last week. And lastly we would like to give a HUGE shout out to Mrs. Terry and her crew at Always Eva’s Flowers for putting in so much time and effort with our guys over the past several months to get them to the point they are today, without your knowledge, patience, and support we would not have been as prepared as we were for the contest.”