Ava Bratton is a senior student athlete at Roane County High School and is currently serving as your 2024-2025 West Virginia FBLA President. She is enrolled in Honor Academics and plays on the football team as a running back and linebacker, as well as being a utility in the Softball team. Besides sports, she is heavily invested into her future. Ava plans on perusing college for architecture and civil engineering. She has been involved with FBLA since her freshman year and has gone to Nationals 2 twice. She has also placed top 3 at states. She has had multiple leadership experiences as her local chapter Vice President and President, as well as being your 2023-2024 State Vice President. She plans to achieve many things to not only benefit, but also grow West Virginia’s Future Business Leaders of America by continuing to develop a statewide app and to expand West Virginia’s Middle Level and getting FBLA into Technical Centers. Please feel free to get in touch with Ava Bratton if you have any question or suggestions through Instagram Direct Messages @ava.bratton or email @ajbratt1@stu.k12.wv.us!

Lincoln Thorn is an FBLA member of four years. He has previously served as the 2023-2024 WV State Parliamentarian, and currently serves as his local chapter’s President. Over this time, he has won first place in Hospitality & Event Management, Intro to Information Systems Technologies, Local Chapter Annual Business Report, Social Media Strategies and Parliamentary Procedure. In school, Lincoln is a member of National Honors Society and Student Council where he serves as the President of the Class of 2025. Lincoln takes pride in attendance and has gained perfect attendance in both his sophomore and junior years. He also enjoys movies, dogs, and football in his free time.

Brooke Patterson is your WV FBLA Secretary of the 2024-25 year! She attends Greenbrier West High School and has been an active member in FBLA since her sophomore year. She is currently serving as her chapter president! Outside of FBLA, she is a member of the NSHSS, ASL, NHS, and NTHS. She also works at MSAA and at Belt'z Pizza during the fair. Brooke is very involved with sports, being a member of her high school football cheer team, basketball cheer team, competition cheer team, softball team, and travel ball team The Titans. She is currently reigning as Miss Raleigh County. She loves to spend time with her friends and family, especially on the water. Her favorite hobby is reading, and she has read over 300 novels. She plans to attend college to pursue business and hopefully play softball.  If you have any questions, want to chat, or just need to vent you can contact her through Instagram, which is brooke_jayden73, snapchat brookejayden07, or her email at brookejayden07@yahoo.com.

Savannah Wilkins, a Junior at East Hardy High School, is currently serving as your 2024-2025 West Virginia FBLA treasurer! Savannah started FBLA her freshman year, in 2022, and fell in love with the organization, that year she took part actively in her schools Digital Daze program, learning how to edit in photoshop and taking pictures for her East Hardy’s yearbook. After attending her first National Fall Leadership conference in Texas last November, she began to understand and gain more passion for FBLA. She is currently her chapters president, which brings her, and her school, so much pride. Being in West Virginia FBLA has already been one of the most amazing experiences, given her so many incredible opportunities and memories with the best people.

Outside of FBLA, she is President of her 4H Club, Student Council Secretary, Junior Class Treasurer, National Honor Society Treasurer, and throws shot-put and discus on her schools' track and field team. She enjoys watching football games, painting, hiking, hunting, and shopping. Savannah is honored and thrilled to serve as your State Treasurer this year!

Allison Neff, better known as Ali, is currently serving as the 2024-2025 West Virginia Future Business Leaders of America Parliamentarian! She is a senior at Wirt County High School and has been an FBLA member since her freshman year. She has placed first in Parliamentary Procedures, Social Media Strategies, Local Chapter Annual Business Report, and UX Design. She has also won the WVFBLA Pin Design two years in a row. In school, she serves in her student council as the senior class vice president. Ali plays softball and does archery in her spare time. Her interests include video games, reading, and spending time with friends and family. After graduation, she plans to attend college and obtain a degree in marketing and advertising.

Gavin Knotts is a senior at Philip Barbour High School. He is the president of his chapter, and was previously the parliamentarian and historian. Gavin started his chapter’s social media pages, leading them to gain over 1,000 views. He loves to watch anime and play video games. He has two male cats: Wiley and Brittany. He is a 5 time CTC completer, a 4.0 student, and a member of NTHS and NHS.