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well don’t let your age be an excuse for
what you can or can’t do that’s Betty
Kendall’s motto as 9 news storyteller
Cheryl free hi nan and herps tell us
Betty isn’t about talk she’s all action
and that has made her a bit of a
celebrity in her community young at
Heritage Eagle Bend is 60 they call it a
senior housing and golf residence life
moves at a relaxed pace for most people
and then there’s Betty Kendall Betty
breaks all the molds around here
everybody wants to meet her and talk to
her and is a big deal because of it well
I became a celebrity and I’ve not been
one before well I can’t quite say that
Betty started acquiring things for the
Kendall museum as she calls it oh here’s
some more when she was young by Heritage
Eagle band standards would you like
freestyle first or butterfly her
competitive swimming career started at
age 60
I think I must have gotten some fish
genes when I watched her and she came
out and told me how old she was I was
just flabbergasted this is a woman who
does not look or swim like her age
Betty is 90 even as this breast cancer
survivor is recovering from about with
skin cancer she is focused she’s strong
I placed in everything and she is
competitive I was the only ringer in
that heat the record books for the
senior games are full of Betty’s name
some of her times blowing past swimmers
20 years younger
these are rotted that’s old they are
none older that she knows of I don’t
think they’re out there somebody said
why are there not more people competing
she was telling me in the 85 to 90
bracket and she said well if they’re not
here consider the alternative Betty is
not done yet I’d be the young kid on the
block in the next group wouldn’t be
great if she sets a hundred record
before it’s all said and done she’ll
have even more fans around here Cheryl
pre hime nine News
pretty inspiring Betty isn’t training
for next year Senior Games in the 90 to
94 year old age group she knows she may
very well be the only swimmer no one has
broken her records this year and by the
way Betty Kendall was in college before
the butterfly stroke was even invented
in fact a college classmate was the one
who came up with it