Kirksville’s Teagan Nolan, 10, used to stand, hold two fingers up in air mimicking her older brother, and recite the Scout Oath and Law along with him when he was a Cub Scout. At the time, there was no opportunity for Teagan to join scouts but that changed when Cub Scouts went co-ed in 2018 and Boy Scouts became Scouts BSA in 2019.
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And more are coming, says her scoutmaster, Justine Gonzalez.
“This is a pretty big deal,” Gonzalez says. “This will be the first of many.”
Wolfe earned the rank in February after working on it for two years. She’s one of about 1,000 U.S. girls who made up the first wave of female Eagle Scouts awarded last month.
It wasn’t easy, Wolfe admits.
“It was a lot of work,” she says. “I actually didn’t think I was gonna make it.”
But she did. And her parents couldn’t be prouder. Especially her dad a former Eagle Scout, himself.