Boy Scout has earned 138 merit badges

WEST SENECA, NY (WKBW) — Dan Dale of Boy Scout Troop 616 successful West Seneca, New York has collected 138 merit badges.

Dan conscionable received his "Eagle Award" and is awaiting the "Super Nova Award" and the "National Outdoor Award".

His Dad, Dave Dale, points retired that his son's merit badge accomplishment unsocial is beauteous astonishing considering he's "only 1 of 500 scouts to execute it successful 111 years of scouting."

Dan's says his favourite merit badge to enactment on, was besides the astir difficult. For cycling, helium had to bash a 50-mile thrust successful 8 hours.

"I didn't deliberation I was going to similar it, due to the fact that I don't similar bikes," helium said. "I emotion cycling for immoderate reason."

Encouraging him on the mode were his scout leaders and his parents.

His bittersweet says, "My woman and I were conscionable truly pleased that helium recovered thing helium truly wanted to bash and we effort to enactment him immoderate mode we could."

That included driving to Florida during the pandemic Dan could implicit his scuba diving merit badge.

Dan is simply a Freshman astatine SUNY Buffalo State College successful media accumulation and plans a vocation successful sports broadcasting.

This communicative was primitively reported by Mike Randall connected WKBW.com.