Timeless Tale of Triumph and Togetherness: World Champion Cav Cavanaugh, EP 215

Masters swimming legend Cav Cavanaugh, an 87-year-old world champion, has been making big waves in the pool for an incredible 80 years! Cav shares with us the secret to his success, which goes beyond just competing – it's all about the camaraderie and friendships he has built throughout his eight decades as a swimmer.

Join us for this heartwarming conversation as Cav learns about breaking a 40-year-old record from his champion swimmer wife, Debbie. They have been supporting each other as a couple in their swimming journeys for decades. This episode is an inspiring testament to how swimming can be a lifelong passion that brings people together, and how age is just a number when it comes to chasing your dreams.

You are sure to be inspired and gain some valuable insights.

Email us at HELLO@ChampionsMojo.com. Opinions discussed are not medical advice, please seek a medical professional for your own health concerns.

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Welcome to the award-winning champions mojo, hosted by two world record holding athletes and health coaches.

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Be inspired as you listen to conversations with champions and now your host, kelly Palace and Maria Parker.

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Hello friends, welcome to the champions mojo podcast.

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I am your host, kelly Palace, and, as usual, i am with my co-host, maria Parker.

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Hey Maria, hey Kelly, it's great to be with you here today.

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Yes, and Maria, this is a special edition of champions mojo from the pool deck and we have a Great interview for you today.

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It's brief, it's short, but it's powerful.

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Yeah, I wasn't there, but I was able to listen to the interview and some great takeaways.

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Yeah, we hope you'll stick around and catch the takeaways.

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And here we go.

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This on-deck interview is with Cav Kavanaugh, who has been swimming for 80 years.

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He swims for the Florida Gold Coast Masters and Cav was sitting on the pool deck with his amazing champion wife Debbie, who you'll hear in the background at one question.

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Cav has had so many successes in master swimming a world champion, a national champion.

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He's broken 48 us masters records.

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The list goes on and on.

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I hope you enjoy this interview as much as I did.

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What is the secret to being a world champion like you?

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I'm just an old dog having fun.

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And tell me about this 40 year old record you broke Oh.

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I didn't know I'd rank was toward you already.

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You broke you two butter freeze record.

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That's from 1992.

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I wrote that record.

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Your wife, dad and Kavanaugh, who is also an amazing champion, knew that.

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So why are you having so much fun?

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I?

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Like the people that are running around the pool here.

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I Swim with a group and I like them.

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It's just friendship Many years.

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One of the boys just was here.

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He's about 45 now, oh, 50, but I know him when he was in high school because I coached high school, so I knew him well.

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But he's still swimming.

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So there's a bunch of us like that.

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How old are you now?

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You really want to know?

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Yes, 87 87, and when did you start swimming?

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when I was in the boysco I went to the YMCA.

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I was a little six-year-old boy with 40 other little boys.

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That's at the YMCA at the YMCA.

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Yeah, so it's fun that we are at the YMCA Nationals.

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That's true.

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What is your favorite strove?

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I'm a freestyler.

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How about?

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are you a sprinter distance Sprinter I am now.

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Anyway, i had some records in the distance, could not anymore.

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What is your favorite set you've ever done in practice?

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10 100s on 130.

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What are you doing, the hundreds on now?

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Three minutes probably that's great.

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So if you wanted to give One piece of advice to master swimmers with all the experience you have, what might that I?

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Think it's the camaraderie that you find with all the boys and girls as you're growing up of mine, and growing up was always with guys, because there weren't many girls swimming 80 years ago, but that's what's happening now.

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So the friendship that Everybody is just good, that's all so the advice would be get into swimming, because you make nice friends.

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That is beautiful, and I really appreciate you spending this time with me today.

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Thank you too.

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Cav Kavanaugh was a Popular man at this meet.

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I was hard to get near Cav because he's around his teammates a lot and he is Such an icon in the sport.

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Cav has been swimming in this LMSC for decades and my big takeaway of Cav Kavanaugh is that his wife, deb Kavanaugh, is an awesome swimmer too and they're always at meets together and they Seem to keep it fun as a couple and really support one another, and I feel like that's kind of part of their secret Is that they've been doing this together for decades.

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Yeah, i like that too.

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I like how she was like you broke a 40 year old record, she's like it.

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Yeah, for me that just the longevity of somebody who's been swimming since he was six or seven years old, so literally swimming 80 years.

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And he he talked about how he's friends with kids, that he Not that he coached but we're on the other teams when he was a coach in high school that they're now there has, now there is equals there And so just showing up swimming can it's a lifestyle and it's obviously worked really well for him.

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Yeah, and he has a lot of friends in the swimming community, so it was I'm glad I got a, i'm glad I got to spend some time with he and Deb.

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Yeah, wonderful, all right, thanks, maria, love you.

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Love you too.

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