Top cookie entrepreneur combines hard work, friendliness to become sales success story

Everyone has a favorite. Whether it’s Tagalongs, Samoas or the correct choice — Thin Mints — when Girl Scout Cookie sales come around each year, they elicit a wave of excitement from cookie monsters nationwide. 

And one area Girl Scout has proven her success at cookie sale season in a big way, finding those hungry customers. In 2019, Catelyn Holcomb, now 12, of Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida sold 7,500 packages of cookies. With prices of at least $5 a box, that's some $30,000 in cookies. Plus, 2,487 packages of those cookies were donated to active military personnel through the Mints for the Military program.