90 Year Old - Amazing Story

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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 nine new storytellers Cheryl prein and Ann hers 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 band 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 Kindle 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 Ben standards would you like Freestyle first or butterfly her competitive swimming career started at age 60 I think I must have gotten some fish jeans 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 a 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 have rotted that so 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 it be great if she set the hundred record before it’s all said and done she’ll have even more fans around here Cheryl preheim 9 News pretty inspiring Betty is in training for next year’s 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