Tristan Guzman never liked to be told she couldn’t do something.
Her mother, Viki Row, said she has had this can-do attitude since she was a toddler.
“I’d tell her when she was little, or her dad would tell her, ‘You can’t do that!’ And she’d go and do it, just to show us that she could,” Row said.
The yes-I-can mindset stuck with Guzman and now the 18-year-old Northern Heights graduate from Allen is the first female in Kansas to enlist as a U.S. Army infantry solider.